 During the early years of the law school , enrollment fluctuated from as many as 17 graduates in 1898 to as few as zero graduates in 1903 and 1905 . Dean Ramsey resigned in 1888 and was replaced by George G. Bingham , who served until 1891 when replaced by his pupil Samuel T. Richardson . Women were allowed to enroll beginning in 1892 ; in 1898 , the first women , Olive S. England and Gabrielle Clark , graduated . The third female graduate , in 1899 , was Anna Carson , who was part of the Carson legal family of Salem that includes Wallace P. Carson ( 1923 graduate ) a state legislator and Wallace P. Carson , Jr . ( 1962 graduate ) a state legislator and longtime chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court . 
