[4][5] Its founders were Georgia Bullock, Gladys Morre Brown, Sarah Patten Doherty, Annette Fillius Hunley, and Vere Radir-Norton.

[4][5] Its purpose was "to promote a higher standard of professional ethics and culture among women in law schools and the legal profession.

[9] The fraternity eventually expanded to include 5,000 members and 68 chapters in the United States and Canada.

[12] In addition, it provided scholarship keys at graduation for scholastic excellence in law school.

[12] The fraternity also had a speakers bureau on its research interests, including coordinating council movement, juvenile delinquency, legislation impacting women, the probation and parole system, restatement of the law, and taxation.

[12] In 1970, the all-male legal fraternity Phi Alpha Delta amended its constitution to accept female members.