Oda Faulconer

Oda Hunt Faulconer (November 10, 1884 - November 3, 1943) was an early 20th century lawyer and judge and the president of the Bank of Italy, San Fernando, and West Adams State Bank, Los Angeles.

Early life Oda Faulconer was born in Springfield, Illinois on November 10, 1884, the daughter of August and Mary E. Hunt.

Faulconer graduated from the University of Southern California Law School and was admitted to the Bar of Los Angeles in 1913. and later became a judge in August 1931.

In 1926 Faulconer was the first vice-president of the San Fernando Valley Bar Association.

The Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles was born by the merging of two women's bar organizations: the Women Lawyers' Club, founded in 1918, and the Women Lawyers' Association of Southern California, founded in 1928. The president of the Women Lawyers' Association of Southern California was Mab Copeland Lineman, who was also the 4th President of the Women Lawyers' Club, while Faulconer was the secretary-treasurer. In 1930, when the Association reorganized into the Southern California Council of the National Association of Women Lawyers, Ida May Adams was president and Faulconer vice-president. Faulconer was elected president for two terms, in 1938 and 1939.

Faulconer was: State Chairman of American Citizenship of the California Federation of Women's Clubs; Vice-president of the San Fernando Valley Bar Association; City Mother under the supervision of the Official City Mothers' Bureau of the City of Los Angeles; President of San Fernando Women's Club; President of the Soroptimist Club.

Faulconer died on November 3, 1943, and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), Plot: Sanct. of Gratitude, GM, Memorial Terrace, Lot 0, Space 5946.