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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

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.

Margaret Keane

Although her work was hugely commercially successful, mostly through inexpensive reproductions on various items, her then-husband Walter Keane claimed credit for her paintings. It was only after their divorce that Margaret went public with her story of their abusive marriage. She later proved herself in a courtroom “paint-off,” in which Walter refused to participate.

Mary Ware Dennett

American women’s rights activist, pacifist, homeopathic advocate and trailblazer in the areas of birth control, sex education and suffrage, who co-founded the National Birth Control League in 1915

Bernice King

Bernice Albertine King carried on her family’s legacy by advancing the Kingian philosophy of nonviolent social change, as a minister, author, and CEO of the King Center.