Jahanara Imam
Bangladeshi writer and political activist known for her work to bring war criminals to trial during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
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Kanitha Wichiencharoen
Khunying Kanitha Wichiencharoen was a women’s rights activist and lawyer who later became a Mae Chee (female monastic in Thailand).
Eunice Hunton Carter
One of New York’s first female African-American lawyers and one of the first African-American prosecutors in the United States.
Gloria Allred
American lawyer and activist
Charlotte E Ray
The first African-American woman to become a lawyer in the U.S.
Clara Shortridge Foltz
American lawyer and women’s rights activist
Claudia L Gordon
In 2000, Claudia L. Gordon became the first Deaf Black female lawyer in the U.S.
Anita Hill
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.
Anna Chandy
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.
Ayesha Malik
Pakistani judge