Bertha Landes
In 1926, Bertha Landes was the first woman to be elected as mayor in part of a major U.S. city; Seattle. She brought a vision to clean up the corrupted city streets, and improve the public services.
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Eliza Ann Gardner
Remembered as someone “pointed and convincing in speech, winning in manner, [and] overpowering in appeal,” community and religious leader Eliza Ann Gardner exemplified the social activist tradition within African-American churches.
Concepción Acevedo y de la Llata
Mexican writer and nun.
Jane Searle
In her parallel ministries within the Salvation Army and the National Council of Women, she used both her platform ability and her fine administrative skills to champion the cause of women.
Kathleen Hall
Her longstanding support of China and its people was significant in a period when many New Zealanders had little understanding of events there.
Mary Leo Niccol
Sister Mary Leo was New Zealand’s best-known singing teacher in her time.
Elsie Smith
New Zealand nurse, Anglican deaconess and missionary
Annie Tocker
New Zealand librarian, Methodist deaconess, nurse and child welfare officer
Mary Campbell
Mary Campbell’s life was devoted to education in its widest sense. She sought to be informed, to empathise with people and to seek fair and equitable solutions to social and personal problems. Her home was a haven for those in need of hospitality.
Mary Simpson
Mary Simpson was a religious healer and teacher who was largely responsible for establishing the Christian Science church in New Zealand. A strong – some would say autocratic – spiritual leader, she later founded and led a breakaway group known as the Divine Science Fellowship.