Viola Ross Napier
Viola Ross Napier was elected to Georgia’s House of Representatives in 1922, only two years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which grants women the right to vote.
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Leah Ward Sears
Leah Ward Sears served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 2005 until 2009.
Elizabeth Stewart Magee
Fought to secure labor-reform legislation, especially protecting women and children
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
The first African American woman from Ohio elected to the United States House of Representatives, who served the state’s eleventh congressional district for nearly ten years. Prior to her election to Congress, Tubbs Jones was Chief Prosecutor of Cuyahoga County.
Jean Murrell Capers
In 1949, she became the first African-American woman elected to Cleveland City Council.
Annette Garner Butler
African-American civil rights lawyer and civic activist
Lillian W Burke
The first African-American woman judge in Ohio and the first to sit on the Ohio Industrial Commission, the highest state position ever held by an African-American woman at that time.
Margaret Lechowick
American basketball champion, child welfare advocate and lawyer
Louise Johnson Pridgeon
The first practicing African American woman lawyer in Cleveland, and was also active in welfare work and politics.
Jennie E Precker
Lawyer Jennie E. Precker (1892-1981) founded the Susan B. Anthony Building and Loan Association, the nation’s first women’s bank, in Newark.