Alice Finch Lee, attorney, of Monroeville, Alabama, died early in the morning of November 17, 2014. She was the first of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee. She graduated from Monroe County High School in 1928, at the age of 16 and attended Huntingdon College. After her father purchased The Monroe Journal she returned to Monroeville and worked at the newspaper for seven years. In 1937 she was employed by the Internal Revenue Service in Birmingham in the newly created Social Security Division. From 1939 to 1943 she attended night school at the Birmingham School of Law, and in July, 1943, she took and passed the Bar Exam, becoming one of Alabama’s first women lawyers. She returned to Monroeville and became a partner in her father’s law firm, Barnett, Bugg, and Lee. She practiced law in this firm until the age of 100, when declining health forced her to take leave from her practice, then at Barnett, Bugg, Lee, and Carter. By virtue of her government service and the needs of her clients, she developed over the decades particular expertise in tax law, and served thousands of clients in that capacity. By 2011, when she was 100, she was said to be the oldest practicing female lawyer in the United States. Miss Lee’s activity extended far beyond her practice of law, however. She was legal counsel to her church after assuming her legal practice, and she assisted churches throughout Monroe County with their legal needs. In service to her community, she served for decades on the Monroeville City Planning Commission and was the first woman to do so. She was named Monroeville’s Woman of the Year and was the Kiwanis Club’s first Citizen of the Year. She served as a director of the Monroe County Bank for well over thirty years. When the Monroe County Hospital opened in 1962, she became a “Pink Lady” and was one of the first group of volunteers to reach 500 service hours by helping the hospital in the evening. Among her many honors these are a few: KA Rose for the state of Alabama, In 1984, Huntingdon College awarded her the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. In 1987, the Monroeville Kiwanis Club decided to name her as Citizen of the Year (their first award of this kind) in lieu of their usual Kiwanian of the Year because women were not yet accepted as members of the Kiwanis Club. In 1992, the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church established the Alice Lee Award for women who have given outstanding leadership in the United Methodist Church. She was the 2003 recipient of the Maud McClure Kelly Award by the Alabama Bar Association. She was inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor in 2012. She leaves behind a loving family deeply grateful for her presence among us for so many years. Her most immediate family members include her sister, author Harper Lee, nephews, sister-in-law, nieces and nephew, great-nieces and nephews, great-great nieces and nephews, and many extended family members.