On this International Women's Day (though it is a Marxist holiday, but enough about that. . .) it seems like a good idea to touch on some of the firsts in women's history that that took place in New Kent.
There is Mrs. Belle B. Turner of Lanexa, the first women in Virginia elected trustee on a county school board in 1920.
There is Katherine Joyce Spivey, a Providence Forge attorney, who in 1961 was elected New Kent's Commonwealth's Attorney, the first woman in Virginia to hold that post. Hers is a story I haven't got around to telling here yet.
And then there is the odd case of the New Kent woman who was declared head of her household by a Federal Court.
And then there is the odd case of the New Kent woman who was declared head of her household by a Federal Court.
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