Phoebe Couzins
The first femal U.S. Marshal
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Ardeth Platte
Nun, anti-nuclear activist and ‘peacemaker in a hostile world’
Abbie Ann Bigelow
1800s American president of the Worcester Branch of the Baldwinsville Hospital Cottages
Abbie Trask Usher
1800s American President of the Woman’s Relief Corps
Elizabeth Martínez
Chicana feminist, community organizer, activist, author and educator
Dr Jane E Hodgson
1970: Dr. Jane Hodgson was the first doctor convicted of performing an abortion in a hospital, when she challenged Minnesota law (Hodgson v. Minnesota).
Dr Steffie Woolhandler
1986: Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler helped found Physicians for a National Health Program, a not-for-profit organization for physicians, medical students, and other health care professionals who advocate a national health insurance program.
Gloria Hollister
American oceanographer
Sophie O’Brien
Irish writer and activist
Martha Cardona
Puerto Rican woman who brought a legal case, Cardona v. Power (1966), for being denied suffrage due to her lack of English literacy.