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1100s Irish queen-consort
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Eleanor Fitzgerald
1500s and 1600sCountess of Desmond who ruled in her husband’s absence
Pauline Toner
In 1982, Honourable Pauline Toner became Victoria’s first female state cabinet Minister.
Thelma Garcia Buchholdt
Thelma Garcia Buchholdt became the first Filipinx American legislator in the U.S. when she was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1974.
Sharice Davids
Rep. Sharice Davids is the first openly LGBTQ Native American woman to serve in the US Congress.
Rhodessa Jones
Using playwriting, acting, and directing, she has created her own brand of social work designed to empower incarcerated women and women with HIV.
Lena Morrow Lewis
Alaska’s male-dominated government passed women’s suffrage, but female leaders organized and lobbied to make voting rights a reality. Lena Morrow Lewis traveled around Alaska in the 1910s and spoke to large audiences in Fairbanks, Valdez, and Juneau about voting rights and other social reform issues.
Lillian Ford Feickert
Lillian Ford Feickert was president of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association from 1912-1920.
Beatrice Faust
In 1972, Beatrice Faust was a founder of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) in Australia.
Mary Chong
The first Chinese woman to graduate from an Australian university (USyd, BA 1929, DipEd 1930). Fluent in English and Cantonese, after graduating she became English Secretary for the Consul General of China in Australia.