Martha Wayles Jefferson
American First Lady and wife of Thomas Jefferson
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Ella Stack
She was elected the first woman Mayor of Darwin in 1975 (the first woman to be elected Mayor of an Australian capital city)
Robertine Barry
Canadian journalist, writer, lecturer, feminist, and office holder
Minnie Bell Adney
Canadian music teacher and businesswoman
Lily O’Brennan
Irish republican
Gabrielle Kibble
Australian public offician in infrastructure development and urban planning, as well as education
Marcella Rossein
She focused her political activity on organizing and actively fighting against anti-Semitism, racial oppression, fighting for civil rights and equality for working people from a leftist prospective.
Dr Haunani-Kay Trask
Native Hawaiian was a scholar, poet, activist, and revolutionary known for her deep historical and cultural analysis of US Imperialism and oppression in Hawai’i. She was also an iconic figure in the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement.
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.
Jody Williams
Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1997 for her work to ban landmines through the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which shared the prize with her that year.