Lois Hancock
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Edith Hesling
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Her Honour Myrella Cohen QC
The third woman judge and fifth woman QC in the [...]
May Doris Charity Taylor
May Doris Charity Taylor (nee Clifford) was the first female [...]
Mary Donaldson
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Elsie Bowerman
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Chrystal Macmillan
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Dorothy Knight Dix
Dorothy Knight Dix was the first woman to sit [...]
Averil Deverell
Averil Katherine Statter Deverell was one of the first women, [...]
Elizabeth Lane DBE
Elizabeth Lane DBE was an English barrister and judge. [...]
Professor Frances Moran
Professor Frances Elizabeth Moran was the first female law [...]
Frances Kyle
Frances Kyle was one of the first women, along [...]
Georgina Frost
Georgina “Georgie” Frost was the first woman to hold [...]
Constance Markievicz
The ‘rebel Countess’ Constance Markievicz née Gore-Booth was an [...]
Margaret Kidd
Margaret Kidd was the first female member of the Faculty [...]
Claire Palley, the U.K.’s first female Law Professor
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Madge Easton Anderson
© Mitchell Library, Glasgow Madge Easton Anderson was the first [...]
Sybil Campbell
Sybil Campbell was the first woman to be appointed to [...]
Theodora Llewelyn Davies
Theodora Llewelyn Davies was the first female applicant to be [...]
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
Nancy Astor was the first woman to take her seat [...]
Mella Carroll
Mella Carroll was the first female judge of the [...]
Marjorie Powell
Marjorie Powell is a forgotten name, buried in the history [...]
Daw Phar Hmee – First Female Burmese Barrister
Phar Hmee is remembered for being the first Burmese woman [...]
Trailblazers in Legal Journalism: Mary Smith (1967-1979)
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Lord Robert Cecil (born Edgar Algernon Robert Gasgoyne-Cecil), first Viscount [...]
Rosina Harris: Paving the Way for Female Partners in British Law Firms
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Dorothy Livingston
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The Life of Charlotte Ray
Charlotte Ray (1850 – 1911) was the first African American [...]
Women in French Legal History
Three women changed the course of history in France at [...]
Edith Annie Jones Berthen
One of the first 10 women solicitors in England and [...]
Mary Elizabeth Pickup
Four women, Carrie Morrison, Maud Crofts, Mary Elaine Sykes and [...]
Elsie Florence Turner: First Woman to be Clerk to a Judge
My maternal grandparents, Elsie Waugh and Stanley Turner, married in [...]
Ada Yeates & Sisters, Legal Stationers, Dublin
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Agnes Twiston Hughes
A woman of fierce determination, Agnes Twiston Hughes qualified as [...]
Mary Elaine Sykes, “The Wise Little Owl”
Born in 1896 Mary Elaine Sykes was one of the [...]
Mithan Tata 1898 – 1981
In 1923 Mithan Tata became the first woman called to [...]
Mercy Ashworth
Mercy Ashworth was called to the bar on 26 January [...]
Ethel Bright Ashford: A member of the first small cohort of women to practise at the English Bar
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Maud Crofts: “We women want not privileges but equality.”
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Barbara Calvert QC
In 1974, Barbara Calvert QC, later known as Lady Lowry, [...]
Margaret Thatcher: “I should like to see more and more women at Westminster…”
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Chaya Ray: BT’s First Female Lawyer
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Joyce Gutteridge CBE, aka ‘Auntie Joyce’ and how she inspired me
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Lady Littlewood
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Carrie Morrison
In December 1922 Carrie Morrison became the first woman to [...]
Eliza Orme
Eliza Orme (1848-1937) was the first woman in England to [...]
Gertrude Tuckwell – London’s First Woman Magistrate
On Christmas Eve 1919 the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act became [...]
Helena Normanton
Born in 1882, Helena Normanton was the first woman [...]
Juliet Wheldon
Not only was Juliet a fantastic lawyer, but she also [...]
Eulalie Evan Spicer
Eulalie Evan Spicer was a lawyer and Legal Aid administrator, [...]
Dame Barbara Mills
Dame Barbara Mills DBE QC was the first female Director [...]
Eva Crawley
It would be no exaggeration to state that, without the [...]
Ada Summers
Ada Summers was the first female magistrate, one of the [...]
Moira Gilmour
The late Moira Gilmour’s remarkable achievements in the legal profession [...]
Gwyneth Bebb
Gwyneth Bebb was a plaintiff in the famous Bebb v [...]
Rose Heilbron
The late Dame Rose Heilbron’s remarkable catalogue of firsts reads [...]
Cornelia Sorabji
Cornelia Sorabji was the first woman to ever sit the [...]
Ivy Williams
Dr Ivy Williams was the first woman to be called [...]
Clarissa Dickson Wright
Before rising to fame as a celebrity chef, Clarissa Dickson [...]
