Mary Cullen
Irish nun and founder of the magazine Virgo Potens
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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
Mary Ryan
Irish professor of Romance languages
Mary McCaffrey
Irish-American Sister of Mercy and social worker known as the ‘Angel of the Tombs’ for her many years of prison visitation, assistance to short- and long-term prisoners, and the many appeals she made on their behalf
Mary Purcell
20th century Irish teacher, religious biographer and archivist
Jean Augustine
The first woman of African descent elected to Canada’s House of Commons, and to be appointed to the Cabinet