By Jan Cleere for the Arizona Daily Star
There are those who believe the ghost of Arizona’s first woman attorney hovers around Globe’s ornate old Amster Building, where she once practiced law.
Sarah Inslee Herring Sorin may still haunt the rooms above the first floor Palace Pharmacy, where she ran one of the first female law practices in the territory, but it was her appearance before the nation’s highest court that opened doors for women in the legal field.
Born in New York in 1861, Sarah was 21 years old when she arrived in Tombstone in 1882, a year after the infamous gunfight between the Earps and Clantons. Her father, attorney William Herring, had come to Tombstone two years earlier with his wife Mary and their two youngest children, Bertha and Henrietta. Sarah, her sister Mary and brother Howard remained in New York until Howard completed high school.
