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Famous People
1899 – 1930
Maxine Evelyn Ryer (later Miller): born in South Bend on 1 December 1899, graduated from South Bend High School in 1916, and studied violin at Nazareth Academy in Kalamazoo, offering violin lessons to South Bend pupils by 1920. In 1921 she enrolled at the University of Notre Dame as its first woman law student, and she became the first woman to practice law in St. Joseph County. She died in South Bend on 12 June 1930, aged thirty; the Chicago Tribune’s headline stands as her professional obituary: “First Woman Lawyer at South Bend Is Dead.” Her full record stands in this history’s Women’s History record, in the professions entry.
Sources:
- The Women’s History record of this history — the South Bend birth and schooling, the Notre Dame enrollment of 1921, the practice, and the death of 12 June 1930
- Chicago Tribune, June 1930 — “First Woman Lawyer at South Bend Is Dead”