Edith Wilmans

[1] Known as well for her work in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the League of Business and Professional Women, Wilmans was active in her daughters' Parent-Teacher Association, and in her church .

[2] Interested in learning more about legal matters and improving women's status, Wilmans studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1918.

[2] Wilmans served on a number of committees, including Common Carriers; Counties; Education, Oil, Gas and Mining; and Public Health.

[2] In 1925 Wilmans was appointed by Governor Pat M. Neff to the All-Woman Supreme Court alongside Nellie Gray Robertson and Hortense Sparks Ward.

She was forced to resign when it was learned that she, along with Robertson, lacked a few months of the required seven years' experience practicing law in the state.

[1] Wilmans was endorsed by the National Woman's Party as a candidate for Vice-President of the United States in the 1928 presidential election, but refused to run.

In 1935 Wilmans ran again for the legislature and was defeated; that year she bought a farm near Vineyard, in Jack County.

[4] Moving to the farm in Vineyard to raise goats and cattle,[2] she ran in 1948 and 1951, in a special election, for the Thirteenth District seat in the United States Congress, but was defeated both times.