information on their professional and personal lives, and constantly pushing for gender equality in the profession. She located 120 female lawyers and published an article about them in the Green Bag. Lelia J. Robinson died at the age of 41, in 1891, leaving behind a remarkable impact on our legal history. In a paper published shortly before her death, she imparted these final words to future generations: "[I]n time, sooner or later, the lawyer everywhere who deserves success and can both work and wait to win it, is sure to achieve it, -the woman no less than the man." The Lelia J. Robinson Award Each year, The Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts (WBA) presents the Lelia J. Robinson Award at their annual Gala to a woman who has captured the spirit of pioneering in the legal profession and has made a difference in her community. The attorneys who are given this award have excelled in practice, government, or academia. They have served as mentors and role models and have promoted equality and justice. Recent women in Massachusetts who have received this award are: the late Honorable Judge Nonnie Burnes, Christine Hughes, and Caryn R. Mitchell-Munevar. The award is to remind ourselves of the mission that Lelia J. Robinson sought over a century ago, to extend representation to all classes of people and to build a society that is truly just. References External links Series IX of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1887-1892. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Boston University School of Law alumni Massachusetts lawyers 1850 births 1891 deaths 19th-century American lawyers 19th-century American women lawyers People of the Washington Territory The Boston Post people