Elizabeth Ryan
Irish Loreto sister and pioneer of women’s higher education
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Katherine Angelina Hughes
1900s Canadian teacher, journalist, public servant, author, and Irish political activist
Nathalie Bourgeois
Canadian mystic
Mary Hennessey
1800s Irish Sister of Charity and pioneer in primary education
Mary Cullen
Irish nun and founder of the magazine Virgo Potens
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.
Anna Teresa Brennan
Australian Catholic lay leader, social reformer, solicitor and women’s rights activist
Mary Baptist Russell
1800s Irish nun, philanthropist, and educator
Mary Stanislaus MacCarthy
Irish Dominican nun, educator, and poet
Kate O’Regan
English-South African judge