Head and shoulders image of Elsie Hall, first woman graduate of the College of Law.

Bio/Historical Note: Elsie Hall was born 14 February 1897 in Gloucester, England and landed with her family in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, in 1914. A profile on Hall was featured in a 1920 yearbook. It read: “Due, perhaps, to a sense of the fitness of things, Elsie chose the new world—and particularly our progressive province—in which to prepare for her life-work. Not content to follow the usual professions open to women, she determined to walk in paths yet untrodden by her sisters. Hence, to her belongs the distinction of being the first lady law-student to enrol in Saskatchewan University.” The article goes on to mention that she played on the university basketball team and was an excellent swimmer and tennis player. Little is known about Hall’s career after she left university, but a letter from one of Hall's former friends, Eileen Holden, states that Elsie lived in Hampstead, London, during the 1930s, and during the war worked for the Ministry of Pensions in St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea in Lancashire. Hall died on 31 May 1975 in Victoria, British Columbia.