Eleanor Alexander
A delegate from Armagh to the first meeting of the Women’s National Health Association of Ireland (April 1908), she was awarded the MBE (1918) for war work, having been in charge of an auxiliary military hospital.
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Nellie McClung
Social activist, politician, author, and one of the most important figures in the Canadian suffragist movement.
Blanche Armwood
African-American educator, lawyer, and civil rights activist
Francisca Canapaynina
A young noblewoman and cacica from the town of Nariguala, who in 1610 successfully litigated for recognition as a cacica in Peru.
Florence E Allen
The first female state supreme court judge in the US and one of the first two women federal judges.
Mary Bartelme
Chicago judge from 1913 to 1933
Margaret E Knight
Inventor of a machine that automated the production of flat-bottomed paper bags
Enid Locket
One of the earliest female barristers in England.
Mithan Jamshed Lam
Indian lawyer, women’s rights activist and the first Indian woman barrister, lawyer at the Bombay High Court and Sheriff of Mumbai
Josie Airey
Irish legal-aid campaigner