Catherine Anna McKenna

Catherine Anna McKenna (née, Hickey; August 30, 1875 - ) was a US lawyer. She was the first woman to be admitted to practice law in California since the passage of the suffrage amendment. Born in Taunton, Massachusetts in 1875, she was the daughter of James and Hannah (Mahoney) Hickey. She attended public schools in Colorado, and graduated from State Normal School at Greeley, Colorado, in 1896. McKenna taught school for the following five years. She moved to California in 1902 and married John Irving McKenna in 1906. She studied law with her husband and was admitted to the bar of California by the Supreme Court on January 17, 1912.