Law Archives - Page 13 of 33

Gisèle Halimi

Tunisian-born lawyer, feminist activist, and French politician

Constance Baker Motley

Constance Baker Motley was a trailblazinglawyer and judge whose contributions to both Black history and women’s history left a permanent mark on American society.

Mary Gaudron

Honourable Justice Mary Gaudron became the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia in 1987.

Flora Díaz Parrado

Cuban lawyer and women’s rights activist

Larissa Behrendt

Indigenous Australian activist, filmmaker, academic, lawyer and writer

Amanda America Dickson

Amanda America Dickson, the daughter of an enslaved woman and her enslaver, became one of the wealthiest Black women in nineteenth-century America.

Neaera

Ancient Athenian courtesan

Penny Wong

Australian Labor Party politician Penelope Ying-Yen Wong became the longest-serving female cabinet minister in the history of the Australian Parliament on 6 March 2024.

Cornelia Oatman

In the 1970s, Cornelia Oatman filed a federal lawsuit against the Augusta, Georgia sheriff, jailer, and judge alleging civil rights violations in the death of her son.

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.