One of the US’s first 14 female legal professors died Monday
The Miami Herald reports….
University of Miami law professor M. Minnette Massey shattered the glass ceiling so many years ago — 1958 — that the familiar term was decades away from entering the popular vernacular.
In that year, Massey was one of 14 women nationwide to crack the male-dominated world of law school professors. She joined the University of Miami faculty in 1958 after graduating from its law school in 1951 and earning her master’s in law from New York University.
Massey, who died Nov. 13 at 89, also took time off in between degrees to climb the Matterhorn in the Alps — a feat she kept secret from her parents.
“She was found out because when she reached the top she was interviewed by a BBC reporter and her parents heard the broadcast,” said niece Lee Penninger, who, like several family members, followed Massey into the legal field.
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