Daisy D. Perkins was Ohio’s first African American female lawyer.
[1][2] Perkins’ father was John Perkins, a runaway slave who opened a barber shop after settling in North Baltimore, Ohio.
[3] Perkins went on to attend Findlay College with the financial support of her sisters.
[4] She relocated to Columbus, Ohio and became an autodidact in law.
In 1919, after having taken the bar examination seven times, she became the first African American female admitted to practice law in Ohio.