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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.

Mary Philbrook

Mary Philbrook (1872-1958) was the first woman admitted to the bar in New Jersey.

Marie L Garibaldi

Garibaldi was the first woman to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court and the 18th woman to serve on the Supreme Court overall.

Marilyn Morheuser

Marilyn J. Morheuser (1924-1995), was the director and leading attorney of the Education Law Center in Newark, New Jersey.

Katherine Schaub (1902-1933) was a dial painter who played a pivotal role, with her court testimonies and self-documentation, in getting radium recognized as a harmful substance and subsequently phased out of use in manufacturing altogether.