Jennie Mitchell Kellogg

Mary Virginia Mitchell Kellogg (March 4, 1850 – May 9, 1911) was an American lawyer. She was Kansas' first female lawyer and the first woman to serve as an assistant attorney general.

Early life Kellogg was born on March 4, 1850, in Coshocton, Ohio, to Daniel Patrick Mitchell and Anna Eliza Baker Mitchell. She was the oldest of eight children and grew up in Pennsylvania, where her father was a Methodist preacher. One of her sisters, Annie Mitchell, later active in the Nebraska chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and another sister, Mrs George Thatcher Guernsey, was active in the Kansas chapter. Her father was an abolitionist who edited the Topeka Journal and ran for governor of Kansas for the Greenback Party. She was the first female lawyer admitted to practice law in Kansas.

She joined her husband's law practice in Emporia where she practiced for many years. She worked as an appellate lawyer and was listed as counsel in Case v. Huey, which reached the Kansas Supreme Court in 1881, and thirty other cases in the appellate courts. She held this position for four years and drafted many opinions.