Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie
Canadian feminist, social reformer, lecturer, educator and author
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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.
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