Sybil Ursula Ward (June 24, 1894 – March 31, 1977) was one of the first female lawyers in Delaware.

Ward was born on June 24, 1894, in Wilmington, Delaware. She was born into a family of lawyers, as her father Herbert H. Ward was an attorney. She had attended the Wheaton College in Massachusetts and completed her legal education at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 1923, she and Evangelyn Barsky were the first women admitted to practice law in Delaware. Ward then practiced with her father at the law firm Ward & Gray. She would go on to become the first female to serve on the Wilmington City Council.

Sybil Ward

She died on March 31, 1977, in Wilmington.

Sybil Ward

See also

List of first women lawyers and judges in Delaware

References

University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni

Wheaton College (Massachusetts) alumni

1894 births

1977 deaths

Lawyers from Wilmington, Delaware

Delaware city council members

Women city councillors in Delaware

20th-century American lawyers

20th-century American politicians

20th-century American women politicians

20th-century American women lawyers

Sybil Ward