J. Helen Slough, one of the first women to join the Cleveland Bar Association, was an international patent lawyer who served as president of the National Association of Woman Lawyers and Cleveland Patent Lawyers Association. Graduating from law school at a young age, she was the only female patent attorney in Cleveland for a time, practicing for many years with her father Frank M. Slough (1930), who had followed her path to law school. She moved to Squire, Sanders & Dempsey when Slough & Slough was absorbed by the firm in its patent department. Slough received CSU’s International Women’s Year Distinguished Service Award in 1975 and practiced law in most U.S. appellate courts, as well as at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, the King’s Court in Sweden, and the federal courts in Germany and South Africa.