Clara Shortridge Foltz
American lawyer and women’s rights activist
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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
Phyllis Naidoo
South African lawyer, writer and anti-apartheid activist
Elizabeth Boyle
1600s countess of Cork and Burlington
Shulamith Muller
South African political activist
Sandra Cano
Anonymous defendant in the 1970s U.S. abortion rights case Doe v. Bolton
Mary Anne Anthony
1800s Irish litigant