Francisca Canapaynina
A young noblewoman and cacica from the town of Nariguala, who in 1610 successfully litigated for recognition as a cacica in Peru.
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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
Averill Deverill
Irish barrister
Katherine Delahunt
First female solicitor appointed to the Circuit Court in Ireland
Edith Ann Mary Haynes
In 1900, having worked at her uncle’s law firm, she applied to the Barristers Board of Western Australia to sit the examinations necessary to practise as a lawyer. The board refused her request on the grounds that a woman was not a ‘person’ under the Legal Practitioners Act 1893. Haynes challenged the decision in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, but it was upheld; she was never admitted to practice.