| Sybil Ward | |
| Birth Date: | June 24, 1894 |
| Birth Place: | Wilmington, Delaware |
| Death Date: | March 31, 1977 |
| Death Place: | Wilmington |
| Occupation: | lawyer |
Sybil Ursula Ward (June 24, 1894 – March 31, 1977) was one of the first female lawyers in Delaware.[1]
Ward was born on June 24, 1894, in Wilmington, Delaware. She was born into a family of lawyers, as her father Herbert H. Ward was an attorney.[2] She had attended the Wheaton College in Massachusetts and completed her legal education at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[3] [4] In 1923, she and Evangelyn Barsky were the first women admitted to practice law in Delaware. Ward then practiced with her father at the law firm Ward & Gray.[5] [6] She would go on to become the first female to serve on the Wilmington City Council.
She died on March 31, 1977, in Wilmington.[7]