Anna McKenzie was one of the first hundred women to graduate in Law from the University of Glasgow. She was born in Kilmarnock on 16th December 1928 to Annie Orr Paterson and Mathew Archibald McKenzie, a solicitor. She attended Arundel School and Hutchesons’ Grammar before matriculating at Glasgow in 1947. Deciding on a legal career Law she passed her first year exams in Civil Law, Forensic Medicine and Public International Law without difficulty. Her father died in 1948. Anna completed her B.L. degree in 1950. In 1951 she married Douglas Brown Paterson. A year later, having completed all the requirements for professional registration she was admitted as a solicitor. The couple settled in Giffnock and had three children. Anna died in Mauritius in 2001 aged 72.
Sources
University of Glasgow Registry and General Council Records
Scotlands People
CoSS Petitions Lists CS46/1952/203
