Bertha Mkhize
South African teacher, trade unionist, anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist, who gained legal emancipation as a feme sole operating a business in her own right.
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Zainunnisa Gool
One of South Africa’s most popular and renowned female political leaders
Bettina d’Andrea
1300s Italian legal scholar and professor in law and philosophy at the University of Padua
Novella d’Andrea
1300s Italian legal scholar and professor in law at the University of Bologna.
Catherine Morgan
High-profile 1800s Irish divorcée
Sarah Kelly
1800s Irish landowner and murder victim
Lillian Mary Westropp
Cleveland Municipal Court judge and cofounder of Women’s Federal Savings Bank
Ellen Goldenbogen
Cleveland attorney elected president of the city council of Lakewood (1928-29)
Gertrude M Handrick
The first female lawyer in the Cleveland Bar Association.
Grace Bernardina Doering McCord
Ohio’s first woman law professor