https://makersteachingmodules.sites.unlv.edu/files/original/bc18b8c67f0531cf1e91f4cbd7647dc3.jpeg 1abdd6aa60cf3ded1de0b87140aa242c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource MAKERS Masterlist (Alphabetized) Subject The topic of the resource Makers Teaching Modules Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Women in Nevada History: A Legacy Digital Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Women's Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN) Person An individual. Work/Contribution Las Vegas Legal Pioneer Birth Date April 8, 1902 Birthplace Boston, Massachusetts Arrival in Las Vegas 1946 Death Date March 3, 2005 Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Dr. Joanne L. Goodwin Date of Interview 2000 Biographical Text “A Thousand to One” – those were the odds that Emilie Wanderer faced to establish a law practice in Las Vegas. But she could live with those odds and succeed. Wanderer never shied away from a challenge. She became the first woman to open her own law practice in Las Vegas in 1947 and was a persistent advocate for the family court and juvenile justice. Wanderer was born near Boston on April 8, 1902. She attended the Fordham Law School, but did not finish due to the Depression. However, Wanderer passed the New York State Bar Exam (one did not need a degree at the time) and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1933. While en route to Phoenix in 1946 to seek a healthier climate for one of her sons, the family stopped in Las Vegas and decided to stay. A year later, she was one of three women who passed the Nevada bar exam, but she was the only woman to open her own practice. There were 26 attorneys in town at the time. During her first years in Las Vegas, she worked to establish a family court, became legal counsel for the Las Vegas NAACP, joined the Business and Professional Women’s Club, and ran for Municipal Court Judge. She maintained her professional connections with the National Association of Women Lawyers and served on several national committees concerned with family courts, juvenile justice, and probate law. She took a wide range of cases; some paid the bills while others satisfied her sense of social justice. After a sojourn in Chicago of nearly a decade, Wanderer returned to Las Vegas, resumed her law practice, and began to advocate for a family court. When the state legislature passed the act to form such a court in 1971, Wanderer decided to run once again for office, this time for the bench of District Court Judge, Dept 8 Family Court. Only ten women attorneys practiced law in Las Vegas and the state had never appointed a woman as judge. As in the earlier contests, she lost the election, but not her point. Wanderer criticized the lack of women in the judicial system locally and nationally. Emilie Wanderer died on March 3, 2005 in Las Vegas. Bibliography <a href="http://d.library.unlv.edu/digital/collection/jhp/id/23731" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emilie Wanderer,” A thousand to one: the story of Emilie N. Wanderer the first woman to practice law in Las Vegas, Emilie N. Wanderer and Joanne L. Goodwin” [transcript], Las Vegas (Nevada) Women Oral History Project (2000), Special Collections and Archives, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.</a> <a href="https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/databases/index.php?coll=oh&search_query=Emilie+Wanderer&ec=man,photocoll,unlvarc&recid=3592" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guide to the Emilie Wanderer Oral History</a> <a href="https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/databases/index.php?coll=oh&search_query=Emilie+Wanderer&ec=man,photocoll,unlvarc&recid=3592" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Interviews. Special Collections and Archives, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. #OH-02662</a>. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Emilie Wanderer Subject The topic of the resource Makers Teaching Modules Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Women in Nevada History: A Legacy Digital Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Women's Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This resource is available for education and research purposes. This collection is a collaboration and combination of various projects including, but not limited to; the Women in Nevada History: A Legacy Digital Project, the <a href="https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/collecting_strengths/nwa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nevada Women’s Archives</a>, the <a href="https://www.unlv.edu/wrin/research" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Las Vegas Women Oral History Project</a> and the <a href="http://makersteachingmodules.sites.unlv.edu/makerseries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Makers: Women in Nevada History Project</a>, a co-production of the <a href="https://www.unlv.edu/wrin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Women's Research Institute of Nevada</a> and <a href="https://video.vegaspbs.org/show/vegas-pbs-documentaries/collections/makers-women-nevada-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VegasPBS</a>. 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