Law Archives - Page 14 of 34

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.

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.