Edith Sheppard
Canadian lawyer
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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
Sarah Ballenden
Central figure in Canadian defamation case, the Foss-Pelly scandal.
Maria Luisa Algarra
Spanish-Mexican playwright and the first female judge in Spain
Mary Kate Callahan
She helped spearhead a lawsuit against the Illinois High School Association to allow disabled swimmers to take part in the state meet along with their able-bodied classmates.
Genevieve Blatt
Considered the first lady of PA politics, Judge Genevieve Blatt was the first woman elected to a statewide political office in Pennsylvania and became the first woman to sit as a Pennsylvania appellate judge on Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court.
Rostyslava Nychay Bohachevsky
Activist in the Ukrainian Women’s League, travelling through villages, setting up kindergartens, and health and legal-aid cooperatives.