Jean Hunter was one of the first hundred women to graduate in Law from the University of Glasgow. From an old-established Ayrshire family she was born in Cumnock on 14th November 1910, to Margaret Walker and Robert Dalglish Hunter. She was one of eight children. Her father was a local solicitor, agent of the Commercial Bank and Cumnock town clerk from 1924. Combining an apprenticeship with the academic study of Law, Jean matriculated in 1928. In her first year she took classes in Jurisprudence, Law of Scotland, Constitutional Law and Civil Law. The remaining subjects, Evidence and Procedure, and Forensic Medicine were spread over the next two years and she graduated B.L.in 1932. In 1935 she became one of a minority of women law graduates who went on to be admitted to practise as a solicitor and joined the family firm of R.D. Hunter. She died on 14th October 1952, aged 41.
Sources
University of Glasgow Registry and General Council Records
Scotlands People
CoSS Petitions List CS46 1935/12/10
Law Lists
