Lemma Barkeloo (1840–1870) was one of the first women in America to attend law school, alongside Phoebe Couzins.
[5] Barkeloo lived in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated with honors from Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
[7][8] Prior to completing her first year, she petitioned to take the Missouri bar without her law degree.
[6] She began to practice law in the offices of Lucien Eaton and became the first woman to try a case in an American court.
Only a couple months after she was admitted to the bar, she died from typhoid fever on September 11, 1870.