Jean Hunter Mulholland, LDS and "first woman ever summoned for jury service" in Salt Lake County, is dismissed by the judge because the "commissioners thought the name was masculine." Utah's women apparently do not serve on juries until after the ratification of the women's suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
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