Kanitha Wichiencharoen
Khunying Kanitha Wichiencharoen was a women’s rights activist and lawyer who later became a Mae Chee (female monastic in Thailand).
Khunying Kanitha Wichiencharoen was a women’s rights activist and lawyer who later became a Mae Chee (female monastic in Thailand).
One of New York’s first female African-American lawyers and one of the first African-American prosecutors in the United States.
American lawyer and activist
The first African-American woman to become a lawyer in the U.S.
American lawyer and women’s rights activist
In 2000, Claudia L. Gordon became the first Deaf Black female lawyer in the U.S.
By telling her own story of repeated harassment from a man in power, Anita Hill amplified the voices of millions of other women and men struggling with workplace harassment.
In 1959, Anna Chandy changed history by becoming the first female high court judge of India as well as the whole of the (then) British commonwealth.
Pakistani judge
South African lawyer, writer and anti-apartheid activist