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).
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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.
Dr Deborah Paredez
Co-founder of CantoMundo, the US’s first organization of its kind to specifically cater to Latinx poets
Vera Zambonelli
Founder and executive director of Hawaiʻi Women in Filmmaking
Dr Katharine Maguire
Dr Katharine Marian Neril Maguire (1863-1931) was Ireland’s first female Paediatrician and a prize winning biology and medical student, who was primarily interested in social medicine.
Tammy Baldwin
US Senator and Representative from Wisconsin
Mary Teresa Norton
For a quarter century in the House, America knew Mary T. Norton as “Battling Mary,” a reformer who fought for the labor and working-class interests of her urban New Jersey district.