Jeannette Hayner
Despite a late start in politics and competing in a field dominated by men at the time, Jeannette C. Hayner became one of Washington’s most powerful state legislators.
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Susannah Sanders Cooper
Susannah Sanders Cooper tested restraints on married women‘s property ownership in eighteenth-century Virginia.
Jane M Picker
Jane M. Picker co-founded the Women’s Law Fund to support litigation for Cleveland residents seeking legal redress in cases of sexual discrimination in employment, education, housing, and government benefits.
Lizabeth Moody
Lizabeth Moody co-founded the Women’s Law Fund to support litigation for Cleveland residents seeking legal redress in cases of sexual discrimination in employment, education, housing, and government benefits.
Rita Page Ruess
Rita Page Ruess, the first woman assistant U.S. attorney in Cleveland, left her post to join the Women’s Law Fund full-time in 1972.
Edith Sheppard
Canadian lawyer
Marguerite Duplessis
1700s Pawnee woman who was enslaved and fought for her freedom in court
Nancy Morton
Enslaved woman who fought a legal battle for her freedom
Nahnebahwequay
1800s Ojibwa spokeswoman
Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie
Canadian feminist, social reformer, lecturer, educator and author