Mary Tiera Farrow (May 27, 1880 â November 9, 1971) was an American lawyer who co-founded the Women's Bar Association of Kansas City in 1917, was the first female lawyer in Kansas City, the first woman in the U.S. to defend a woman on trial for murder, and the first woman to argue before the Kansas City Supreme Court.
Farrow was born in Columbus, Indiana, on May 27, 1880. In 1855, she moved to Delphos, Kansas, and later attended business school in Kansas City, Missouri. After working as a stenographer, she enrolled at the Kansas City School of Law in 1901, graduating in 1903.