Ada Evans was the first woman to be admitted to the Sydney Faculty of Law in the 1880's. The Dean of the Faculty, Mr Pitt-Corbett was completely against women being admitted to the Faculty of Law but she slipped through the net because the Dean was on sabbatical leave in England at the time of her admission. On his return, he suggested to her that her frame was so light she should become a doctor.

Nevertheless, she remained in the Faculty and completed her education in 1902.

She was unable to become a legal practitioner because the word "person" did not include, within the definition, a woman. To become a legal practitioner she had to be a "person of good fame and repute".

She campaigned from 1902 until 1918 for her admission. In 1918 the Legal Status of Women Act was passed which recognised the status of women as "persons". Ada Evans took out a Practicing Certificate but never actually practised law.

She never married and died at the age of approximately 90 years, looking after her younger siblings for most of that time.

The Evans family owned a bank and were both respectable and very wealthy in the late 1800's. In about 1892 a recession wiped out the bank resulting in a split between the two sides of the Evans family. The rift was so great that neither side of the family had communicated from approximately 1892 until 100 years later (1998) when Ada Evans Chambers was opened and publicity surrounding the opening, calling for members of the family to communicate with the floor members, resulted in a few members of each side of the family meeting, sharing stories and now re-instigating the relationship between the two sides of the family.