Gertrude Rush

Gertrude Elzora Durden Rush was the first African-American female lawyer in Iowa, admitted to the Iowa bar in 1918. She helped found the National Bar Association in 1925. ^{Gertrude Rush, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1962)}

5 August 1880

Born on the same birth date (5 August 1880): Ruth Sawyer

Born on the same birth day (5 August): Anthony Edwards (basketball) • Betty Oliphant • Bruno Coquatrix • Don Matheson • Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent • Friedrich August Kummer • Harel Levy • Harry Trott • Horace Rawlins • James Scott Skinner • Jeff Coffin • John Olerud • Kathrin Zettel • Lolo Jones • Mahendra Karma • Niels Henrik Abel • Patrick Ewing • Salomon Kalou • Tobias Regner • Valdis Dombrovskis

Born in the same month (August 1880): Alexander Grin • Arthur Dove • Christy Mathewson • Earle Page • George Herriman • Gorch Fock (author) • Guillaume Apollinaire • Hans Moser (actor) • Radclyffe Hall • Robert L. Thornton • Ruth Sawyer • Wilhelmina of the Netherlands