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Ethel Greig Robertson

Robertson built the family business into Edrington, one of the largest producers of scotch whisky and the owner of Macallan, Highland Park, and The Famous Grouse.

“The First Lady of Laphroaig,” as a writer would later dub her, declaring “she occupies an almost talismanic position in Scotch whisky history as the person who, without fanfare, proved that given the opportunity women could do so much more in a distillery than type or make tea.”

Margaret Haughery

1800s Irish-American philanthropist

Alice Hands

Co-founder of the US’s first female architectural partnership in 1894.

Julia Morgan

Julia Morgan is arguably the best-known female architect in the United States. Although millions of visitors have admired Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California, Morgan’s architectural legacy is found throughout the state, where she designed more than seven hundred buildings during her long and prolific career.

Mary Gannon

Co-founder of the U.S.’s first female architectural partnership in 1894.

June Mathis

As one of the first screenwriters to include details such as stage directions and physical settings in her work, Mathis saw scenarios as a way to make movies into more of an art form. In 1920, she headed Metro’s scenario department, the first female executive at that studio.