Alice Nkom is a Cameroonian lawyer, well known for her advocacy in decriminalizin homosexuality in Cameroon. She has been a lawyer in Douala (Cameroon’s largest city) since 1969 when, at age 24, she became the first black French-speaking woman called to the bar in Cameroon.
Alba Roballo was a prominent Afro-Uruguayan lawyer, poet and politician, who was Uruguay’s first woman Cabinet member, first woman Culture Minister, and first woman elected to the (then collective) Municipal Council of Montevideo, Uruguay.
Ofelia Domínguez Navarro was a Cuban writer, teacher, lawyer, feminist and activist who fought for the rights of women and illegitimate children.
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was the first African-American to receive a doctorate in economics in the United States (1921), and the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Caroline G. Thummel McCarthy and Adelaide O’Brien were the only law partnership of women practicing in the Western United States in the 1910s (as reported on February 11, 1915 by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch).
Amabel Anderson Arnold LL.M. was an American lawyer and law professor who received degrees from both Benton College of Law and City College of Law and Finance within a five-day period.
Mary L. Bonauto is an American lawyer and civil rights advocate who has fought against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Unity Dow a Motswana judge, human rights activist and writer currently who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation from 2 November 2019 – 26 August 2020.
Teresa Leger Fernandez is an American attorney and politician who was elected in 2020 Representative for New Mexico’s 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first Latina to represent New Mexico’s third congressional district