Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong

Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong (formerly Grimes; August 4, 1890 – January 18, 1976) was a lawyer and law professor in California. She was the first woman to serve as a law professor at a law school of a major university, at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 1923, and in 1935 was the second woman to become a full professor of law at an ABA-approved, AALS-member college, two years after Harriet Spiller Daggett at Louisiana State University; a third female tenured law professor was not appointed until Margaret Harris Amsler at Baylor University Law School in 1941. She advocated social insurance throughout her career, and she is considered the architect of the US Social Security system. Provided by Wikipedia