Rosalie Loew Whitney

Rosalie Loew Whitney (May 4, 1873 – September 3, 1939) was an American lawyer and suffragist.

Early life Rosalie Loew was born in New York City to Hungarian Jewish immigrants William Noah Loew and Leontine (Lottie) Wechsler Lowe. Her father was a lawyer; her mother was a milliner. Her paternal grandfather, Leopold Löw, was a noted rabbi and Jewish leader in Hungary.

Loew earned a bachelor's degree in 1892 at Hunter College, and a law degree in 1895 from New York University School of Law.

Career Loew was admitted to the New York Bar in 1895. In 1896, she was the first woman lawyer to try a case before the New York Supreme Court. She and her father were partners in a law firm, Loew and Loew, before she took a position with the Legal Aid Society in 1897. "It is an error to suppose that woman cannot look at things in a large way," she commented in an 1896 newspaper profile. "There is nothing in the mental bias of a woman to prevent her having a comprehensive knowledge of any of the affairs of life, no matter how great." She attended the Republican National Committee meeting in St. Louis in 1918, working for the party's public support for the 19th Amendment. In 1930 she was elected director of the Brooklyn Neighborhood Laundry Owners Association. She was in the first group of twelve women admitted to the Bar Association of the City of New York, in 1937; John, and William, all born in the first five years of their marriage. Travis Whitney died in 1934; Rosalie Loew Whitney died five years later, in 1939, aged 66, from leukemia. Her grave is in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.