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page 120th-century women lawyers
Sandra Mason
1st president of Barbados
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
politician from Trinidad and Tobago
Christine Kangaloo
politician from Trinidad and Tobago
Eugenia Charles
Prime Minister of Dominica
Fatou Bensouda
Gambian lawyer and judge, Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (2012–2021)
Androula Vassiliou
Cypriot politician
Marie Popelin
Belgian advocate, educator, feminist (1846–1913)
Fatimata M’baye
judge in Mauritania
Jacqueline Moudeina
Chadian human rights activist
Maja Gojković
Serbian politician
Monisha Kaltenborn
Formula One executive
Elizabeth Maruma Mrema
Tanzanian biodiversity leader and lawyer
Beatrice Mtetwa
Zimbabwean human rights lawyer (* 1957)
Vera Chirwa
Malawian lawyer and activist
Azza Soliman
Egyptian lawyer and activist
Radhia Nasraoui
Tunisian lawyer
Athaliah Molokomme
Attorney General of Botswana, gender activist, former high judge, human rights lawyer and author
Katrine Camilleri
Maltese lawyer
Shahindokht Molaverdi
Iranian politician
Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
Moroccan politician
Margarita Cedeño
vice-president of the Dominican Republic
Munira Thabit
Egyptian journalist and writer
Meriem Belmihoub
Algerian independence fighter, lawyer, and feminist
Ingrid Nargang
Austrian lawyer and contemporary historian (1929-2019)
Alicia Pucheta
Paraguayan lawyer
Vera Zlatareva
Bulgarian jurist, author, feminist, suffragette
Melba Hernández
Cuban politician
Inese Lībiņa-Egnere
Latvian politician (born 1977)
Anna Psarouda - Benaki
Greek lawyer and politician
Shehla Zia
Pakistani lawyer and activist
Sana Ben Achour
Tunisian academic, jurist and activist
Flor de María Vega Zapata
Peruvian lawyer
Marianella García Villas
Salvadoran politician and lawyer (1948-1983)
Laurette Onkelinx
Belgian politician
Serafina Dávalos
Paraguayan lawyer and feminist
Noemí Sanín
Colombian diplomat
Amsatou Sow Sidibé
Senegal academic and politician
Emily Bisharat
Jordanian lawyer
Rachida Lamrabet
Belgian writer and lawyer
Barbara Brezigar
Slovenian politician
Mufidah Abdul Rahman
first female Egyptian lawyer
Lee Tai-young
South Korean lawyer and judge (1914-1998)
Constança Urbano de Sousa
Portuguese academic and politician
Nina Pacari
Ecuadorian politician and judge
Qinisile Mabuza
lawyer and first female judge of Eswatini
Tcheng Yu-hsiu
Chinese lawyer
Karinna Moskalenko
Russian human rights lawyer
Ragna Árnadóttir
Icelandic politician
Jacqueline Oble
Ivorian politician and university teacher
María Telo
Spanish lawyer and feminist (1915-2014)
Maya Manolova
Bulgarian attorney and politician
Paula Teixeira da Cruz
Portuguese politician
Maria Rosa Ferrer Obiols
Andorran politician (1960–2018)
Radmila Hrustanović
Serbian politician
Zéta Aimilianídou
Cypriot politician
Sofiya Kalistratova
Russian-Soviet political activist (1907-1989)
Hilde Crevits
Flemish politician
Aliki Yotopoulos-Marangopoulos
Greek lawyer and criminologist
Cynthia Viteri
Mayor of Guayaquil (2019-2023)
Harimia Ahmed
Comorian lawyer