Women everywhere were eager to be involved. Here a group of women in Oregon register for jury duty. (Image: Wikimedia)
Women on the Grand Jury in Santa Barbara for the First Time
The world was changing, and Santa Barbara was changing too. The big headlines in the local paper in January 1919 read: "Women Drawn to Serve on Santa Barbara County Grand Jury First Time in History."
The article continued, "The new grand jury of Santa Barbara County for 1919 was chosen yesterday, and for the first time in history, there appear upon it the names of women."
But not everything had changed. The women were referred to as "the gentler sex" two times in the article.
The newspaper listed the names of a number of potential jurors. One of the women on the list was Pearl Chase.