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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.

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.

Suzanne Connolly

1800s Cree woman whose relationship with her white husband led to a legal case establishing the validity of such inter-racial marriages

Anna Teresa Brennan

Australian Catholic lay leader, social reformer, solicitor and women’s rights activist

Fiona Smith

Australian disability rights activist and lawyer

Kate O’Regan

English-South African judge

Clara González

Panamanian feminist, lawyer, judge, and activist Clara González became the first Panamanian woman to earn her Bachelor of Law Degree in 1922, the same year she established the Partido Nacional Feminista (PNF, National Feminist Party) to campaign for women’s rights and suffrage.

Jacqueline Arenstein

South African anti-apartheid activist

Leonora van den Heever

In 1991 she became the first female judge to be appointed permanently to the appellate division of the South African Supreme Court.