Jessie Lafountain Bigwood (1874 – September 23, 1953) was Vermont's first female lawyer.

[2][3][1] She was born in 1874 to Frank Lafountain and Helen Payette in Plattsburgh, New York.

She served as a government reporter at Fort Ethan Allen.

[4] Bigwood took a law course at Boston University in 1900, and by 1902, became the first female lawyer in Vermont after successfully completing her oral examination.

During the final months of her life, a widowed Bigwood supplemented her pension by working as a nurse's aide.