Mary Brown Martin
The first African-American woman elected to the Cleveland Board of Education
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Paula Kassell
Paula Kassell (b.1917) founded and edited New Directions for Women in New Jersey, the first feminist publication in the country.
Margaret Laird
Margaret Laird (1861-1978) of Essex County was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement, and was one of the first two women elected to the New Jersey Assembly.
Dr Jill Ker Conway
Australian-American scholar and author and the first woman to chair a listed public company in Australia.
Henriette W Johnson
Suffragist Henriette W. Johnson was elected president of the Woman’s Club of Orange, which was the first woman’s club in New Jersey when it was founded in 1872.
Source: http://www.njwomenshistory.org/discover/biographies/henriette-w-johnson/
Mina Caroline Van Winkle
Mina Van Winkle (1875-1932) of Newark organized the Equality League for Self-Supporting Women of New Jersey in 1908.
Mary Philbrook
Mary Philbrook (1872-1958) was the first woman admitted to the bar in New Jersey.
Jessie Street
In 1945, Jessie Street was the first Australian woman delegate to the United Nations.
Florence Spearing Randolph
Florence Spearing Randolph (1866-1951) was a minister for the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
Anna Whitehead Bodeker
Anna Whitehead Bodeker was a suffrage activist who worked to build an intellectual culture of gender equality in Richmond, Virginia through her writing and sponsorship of public talks by suffragist speakers.