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Louise Dewald

Dewald was, for many years, the highest-ranking woman in Cleveland, Ohio’s city government.

Penny Wright

Australian environmentalist and politician

Millicent Anne Chalmers

Australian environmentalist

Rachel Siewert

Australian environmentalist and parliamentarian

During her brief U.S. House of Representatives term, Helen Douglas Mankin of Georgia brought national attention to her longtime political cause: advocating on behalf of poor and disenfranchised southern voters.

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.

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.