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Minnie O'Neill was elected County Superintendent of Instruction for Sacramento County, California. She served from 1907 to 1914. In 1909 O'Neill represented 23 women county superintdents in California in a court case. Earlier that year a new law governing primary ballots and elections in the state seemed to eliminate the eligibility of women to be elected to school offices. O'Neill volunteered to test the law.