{{short description|American lawyer}} {{Infobox person | name = Sybil Ward | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date =June 24, 1894 | birth_place = Wilmington, Delaware | death_date =March 31, 1977 | death_place = Wilmington | other_names = | occupation = lawyer | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Sybil Ursula Ward''' (June 24, 1894 – March 31, 1977) was one of the first female lawyers in Delaware.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wW5wumFHKSEC&pg=SL11-PA347|title=Women in American Politics: History and Milestones|last=Weatherford|first=Doris|date=2012-01-20|publisher=SAGE|isbn=9781608710072|language=en}}</ref>

Ward was born on June 24, 1894, in Wilmington, Delaware. She was born into a family of lawyers, as her father Herbert H. Ward was an attorney.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BbCrtsxL4YQC|title=The National Cyclopedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States|date=1932|language=en}}</ref> She had attended the Wheaton College in Massachusetts and completed her legal education at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/clip/4837790/sybil_ward_passes_bar_exam/|title=Sybil Ward passes Bar Exam|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-08-27}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17270659/sybil-ursula-ward|title=Sybil Ursula Ward|last=|first=|date=|website=Find a Grave|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> In 1923, she and Evangelyn Barsky were the first women admitted to practice law in Delaware. Ward then practiced with her father at the law firm Ward & Gray.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2018/01/25/first-woman-tapped-lead-major-delaware-law-firm/1061634001/|title=First woman tapped to lead major Delaware law firm|last=Fishman|first=Margie|website=delawareonline|language=en|access-date=2019-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.lawlib.widener.edu/delaware/2011/04/28/first-women-admitted-to-delaware-bar-in-1923/|title=First Women Admitted to Delaware Bar in 1923|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-08-27}}</ref> She would go on to become the first female to serve on the Wilmington City Council.

She died on March 31, 1977, in Wilmington.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/154953700/|title=IN MEMORIAM: SYBIL WARD|last=|first=|date=April 1, 1977|website=The News Journal|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-08-27}}</ref>

== See also ==

* List of first women lawyers and judges in Delaware

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