Judy Sheindlin
Judy Blum Sheindlin is arguably the most famous judge of her time, yet most people wouldn’t know her last name, recognizing her only as “Judge Judy.”
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Shirley Shackleton
Australia’s Shirley Shackleton became an activist after the 1975 murder of her husband, journalist Greg Shackleton.
Zarna Garg
Indian-American comedian
Leslie Jones
American comedian
Lynda Weinman
Digital artist and author of one of the first web design textbooks in 1996
Nina Zagat
Co–founder of the eponymous Zagat guide
Jennifer Homans
Jennifer Homans published Apollo’s Angels in 2010, a history of classical ballet that she had been working on for ten years. It is an epic work, tracing four centuries and spanning different countries, setting the evolution of the form in the many political, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts that shaped it.
Katharine Graham
Owner, board chair and publisher of The Washington Post for decades
Edwina Brocklesby
Edwina Brocklesby, who would go on to be the U.K.’s oldest Ironman triathlete and founder and director of Silverfit, which promotes physical activity among older people, “didn’t do any exercise at all until I was 50.”
Bernardine Evaristo
“When I won the Booker Prize in 2019 for my novel Girl, Woman, Other, I became an ‘overnight success’ – after forty years working professionally in the arts.”