Government
Cyrus A. Leland
Sol Lindenbaum
Pauline Woodward
Cyrus A. Leland
Highly successful lawyer and judge of the Thirteenth Judicial District, the Hon. Cyrus A. Leland was born in Ottawa, Illinois on August 11, 1843.
After attending public schools of Ottawa, IL, Leland attended Williston Seminary located in East Hampton, Massachusetts, followed by Yale University.
A well-known pioneer of Butler County, he moved his family to El Dorado, Kansas in 1877. At first sharing a law office with his brother, Lorenzo, he was later to be identified with many local law firms.
Elected to the bench in 1888, he served as judge until 1891. He also served on the Board of Regents for the Kansas State Agricultural College of Manhattan, KS.
Sol Lindenbaum
Sol Lindenbaum, lawyer and Executive Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States through several presidential administrations, was born in 1915 in the El Dorado area, where he grew up.
Lindenbaum saw active military service with the United States Army during World War II, followed by twenty years with the Army Reserve. He retired as a Lt. Colonel.
He attended the University of Kansas, having been awarded the prestigious Summerfield Scholarship. He then attended the Harvard School of Law.
Lindenbaum served his country a total of thirty-five years, both with the army and in the United States Department of Justice.
He died on October 25, 1994 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Pauline Woodward
Pauline Woodward, attorney, was born on September 28, 1901 in Logan Township, southwest of Leon in Butler County, Kansas. Here, she grew up, attending local schools in Leon.
After attending Southwestern College in Winfield for one and one-half years, she transferred to the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where she graduated with a degree in law in 1923.
Coming to El Dorado, Kansas as the wife of local attorney Richard Woodward, Pauline began working as secretary, bookkeeper, and lawyer in her husband’s law office. In 1935, the Woodward’s opened their own partnership under the name of Woodward and Woodward.
During her career as an attorney, Pauline also served as assistant and acting city attorney in El Dorado.
n 1973, the Kansas Bar Association recognized Pauline Woodward as the first woman in Kansas to practice law for 50 years. A past president of the Butler County Bar Association, she is also listed in the first edition of Who’s Who in American Women.