Maude Comstock Waitt
The first woman from Cuyahoga County to be elected to the Ohio Senate in 1922, two years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
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Matilda Ridout Edgar
Canadian historian and feminist
Dr Amelia Yeomans
Canadian physician and social reformer
Mary Augusta Hickey Kennedy
Mary August Hickey Kennedy, grandmother of President John F. Kennedy, was a member of East Boston’s Irish elite, active in politics, including women’s suffrage.
Ellice Pilkington
Irish women’s activist, writer and artist
Jane M Picker
Jane M. Picker co-founded the Women’s Law Fund to support litigation for Cleveland residents seeking legal redress in cases of sexual discrimination in employment, education, housing, and government benefits.
Lizabeth Moody
Lizabeth Moody co-founded the Women’s Law Fund to support litigation for Cleveland residents seeking legal redress in cases of sexual discrimination in employment, education, housing, and government benefits.
Rita Page Ruess
Rita Page Ruess, the first woman assistant U.S. attorney in Cleveland, left her post to join the Women’s Law Fund full-time in 1972.
Agnes Deans Cameron
1800s Canadian educator, writer, lecturer, and adventurer
Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon
English viceregal consort in Canada and Ireland, feminist, social reformer, and author