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Mabel Walker Willebrandt
American Assistant Attorney General
Mabel Walker Willebrandt (May 23, – April 6, ), popularly known to her contemporaries as the First Lady of Law, was an American lawyer who served as the United States Assistant Attorney General from to , handling cases concerning violations of the Volstead Act, federal taxation, and the Bureau of Federal Prisons during the Prohibition era.
For enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment, the prohibition against the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, she also earned herself a nickname “Prohibition Portia”.[1]
Early life and career
Willebrandt was born Mabel Elizabeth Walker in Woodsdale, Kansas, on May 23, Her father, David W.
Walker, edited a local newspaper. In February , she married Arthur Willebrandt, the principal of the school where she was teaching, and they moved to Phoenix, where he recuperated from tuberculosis while she finished college and supported them on a teacher's salary.[2]