The U.S. Supreme Court landmark case Katzenbach V. Morgan (1966) addressed the constitutionality of section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which held that no state shall impede suffrage to individuals lacking English language literacy.
Photographer Lynn Goldsmith fought her copyright claim against Warhol’s estate (the Andy Warhol Foundation) all the way to the Supreme Court – and won.
In 1979, Helen B. Feeney sued the Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts due to employment discrimination.
While William Moulton Marston is credited as the creator of Wonder Woman, his wife Elizabeth and their polyamorous partner Olive Byrne were highly influential in her development, to the point that when Marston first raised the idea of creating a comic book hero, Elizabeth reportedly said, “Fine—but make her a woman.”
African-American judge who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1988 to 1989
Annie MacDonald Langstaff earned her Bachelor of Civil Law in 1914, but the Bar of Montreal refused to allow her to take the bar exam to become a practising lawyer.
Emilie Kempin-Spyri became Switzerland’s first female law school graduate in 1887, but women were not allowed to practise law at the time because they lacked full citizenship.
Lidia Poët was the first woman in Italy to be a lawyer, inscribed in the roll of lawyers (albo degli avvocati) on August 9, 1883. But she was almost immediately disbarred, in a court ruling that banned women from the practice of law in the country.
Wendy Scholtens Wood, who later became an attorney in Little Rock, was one of the greatest women’s basketball players in Arkansas history.
On March 30, 2001, Coral Wong Pietsch became the first female Asian American general officer in the Army and the first female general officer of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps’ (JAG) 230-year history.