James Margrave Perry was South Carolina's first female lawyer.
Referred to as "Miss Jim", she was named after her father (a stenography and accounting teacher at Greenville Female College) who had wanted a son to carry on his name.
Perry was home schooled by her mother before entering the Greenville Female College in 1909.
Perry returned to South Carolina, and became the first female registered on May 3, 1918, to practice law in South Carolina following Governor Richard I. Manning signing a bill that gave women the opportunity to do so.
[6] This was a historical achievement, as no other South Carolinian female lawyer at the time had been named a partner.