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* Vernanda Ziyambi:<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.pindula.co.zw/2018/03/29/elizabeth-gwaunza-appointed-deputy-chief-justice|title=Elizabeth Gwaunza Appointed Deputy Chief Justice ⋆ Pindula News|date=2018-03-29|work=Pindula News|access-date=2018-05-03|language=en-US}}</ref> First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe (2001)
* Vernanda Ziyambi:<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.pindula.co.zw/2018/03/29/elizabeth-gwaunza-appointed-deputy-chief-justice|title=Elizabeth Gwaunza Appointed Deputy Chief Justice ⋆ Pindula News|date=2018-03-29|work=Pindula News|access-date=2018-05-03|language=en-US}}</ref> First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe (2001)
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==Asia==
==Asia==
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* Samia Abdullah Saeed:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bna.bh/portal/news/84755|title=تعيين اول امرأة فى اليمن قاضية فى المحكمة العليا {{!}} وكالة أنباء البحرين|website=bna.bh|access-date=2017-12-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.refworld.org/docid/4b99011b1a.html|title=Refworld {{!}} Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa 2010 - Yemen|last=Refugees|first=United Nations High Commissioner for|work=Refworld|access-date=2017-12-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://marebpress.net/news_details.php?sid=2955&lng=arabic|title=تعيين اول قاضية في المحكمة العليا باليمن|last=برس|first=مأرب|website=marebpress.net|language=ar|access-date=2017-12-14}}</ref> First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Yemen (2006)
* Samia Abdullah Saeed:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bna.bh/portal/news/84755|title=تعيين اول امرأة فى اليمن قاضية فى المحكمة العليا {{!}} وكالة أنباء البحرين|website=bna.bh|access-date=2017-12-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.refworld.org/docid/4b99011b1a.html|title=Refworld {{!}} Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa 2010 - Yemen|last=Refugees|first=United Nations High Commissioner for|work=Refworld|access-date=2017-12-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://marebpress.net/news_details.php?sid=2955&lng=arabic|title=تعيين اول قاضية في المحكمة العليا باليمن|last=برس|first=مأرب|website=marebpress.net|language=ar|access-date=2017-12-14}}</ref> First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Yemen (2006)
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== Australia and Oceania ==
== Australia and Oceania ==
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* Viran Molisa Trief:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2010/vanuatu|title=Vanuatu|website=freedomhouse.org|language=en|access-date=2018-03-14}}</ref> First female appointed as the [[Politics of Vanuatu|Solicitor General of Vanuatu]] (2009-2016)
* Viran Molisa Trief:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2010/vanuatu|title=Vanuatu|website=freedomhouse.org|language=en|access-date=2018-03-14}}</ref> First female appointed as the [[Politics of Vanuatu|Solicitor General of Vanuatu]] (2009-2016)
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== Europe ==
== Europe ==
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* [[Maria Voce]]:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.focolare.org/en/la-presidente/|title=Focolare President|date=2011-02-15|publisher=Focolare Movement|access-date=2016-09-29}}</ref> First female lawyer in Holy See
* [[Maria Voce]]:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.focolare.org/en/la-presidente/|title=Focolare President|date=2011-02-15|publisher=Focolare Movement|access-date=2016-09-29}}</ref> First female lawyer in Holy See
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== North America ==
== North America ==
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* Eileen Ramona Petersen:<ref name=":22" /> First female judge in the United States Virgin Islands (1971)
* Eileen Ramona Petersen:<ref name=":22" /> First female judge in the United States Virgin Islands (1971)
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== South America ==
== South America ==
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* [[Luisa Ortega Díaz]]:<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-40443038|title=Quién es Luisa Ortega, la fiscal chavista que acusó al gobierno de Venezuela de delitos de lesa humanidad y que ahora ha huido a Colombia|last=(@danigmarco)*|first=Daniel García Marco|date=2017-08-19|work=BBC Mundo|access-date=2018-03-16|language=en-GB}}</ref> First female appointed as the Attorney General of Venezuela (2007-2017)
* [[Luisa Ortega Díaz]]:<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-40443038|title=Quién es Luisa Ortega, la fiscal chavista que acusó al gobierno de Venezuela de delitos de lesa humanidad y que ahora ha huido a Colombia|last=(@danigmarco)*|first=Daniel García Marco|date=2017-08-19|work=BBC Mundo|access-date=2018-03-16|language=en-GB}}</ref> First female appointed as the Attorney General of Venezuela (2007-2017)
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== See also ==
== See also ==
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* [[Women in law]]
* [[Women in law]]


==References==
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Revision as of 11:54, 15 May 2018

This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in each country. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are the first women in their country to achieve a certain distinction such as obtaining a law degree or becoming a political figure.

Africa

Country Name Attorney Name (Year) / Historical Significance
Algeria
  • Blanche Azouley (1908):[1] First female lawyer in Algeria
  • Belmihoub Aziz:[2] First female magistrate in Algeria (c. 1960s)
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi

First(s) in a particular region:

Cameroon
  • Alice Nkom (1969):[19][20] First female lawyer in Cameroon
  • Florence Rita Arrey:[21][22] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal in Cameroon (1990). She was also the first female appointed as the Prosecutor of the Court of First Instance (1974).

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Juliana Djenga:[23] First female judge in Kumba, Cameroon (2006)
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
  • Thérèse Dejean (c. 1970s):[32][33] First female magistrate in the Central African Republic
  • Catherine Samba-Panza (c. 1990s): First female (a lawyer) Interim President of the Central African Republic (2014–2016)
Chad
Comoros
Democratic Republic of the Congo

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Viviane Bikuba Cibalonza:[39][40] First female lawyer from the ancient South Kivu region
  • Otshumba Kandolo:[41] First female lawyer in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Ntumba Kaja:[42] First female lawyer to become a Bâtonnier for the Lubumbashi Bar of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2014)
Djibouti
Egypt
  • Naima Ilyas al-Ayyubi (1933):[45] First female lawyer in Egypt
  • Mufidah Abdul Rahman (1939):[46] First female lawyer to take cases to the Court of Cassation. She was also the first woman to practice law in Cairo, Egypt.[47]
  • Aisha Rateb (1955):[9][48] First female (a lawyer) ambassador in Egypt (1979). She was also the first female law professor in Egypt.
  • Tahani al-Gebali:[49] First female judge in Egypt (upon her appointment to the Supreme Constitutional Court in 2003)
  • Sally al-Saidi:[50] First female appointed as a Judge of the Criminal Court (2009) and the Head of the Court of Cassation in Egypt (2013)
  • Dalia al-Namaky:[51] First female appointed as the Chief Judge of the Family Courts in Egypt (2010)
Equatorial Guinea
  • Ana María Dougan Thomson (1957):[52][53][54] One of the practicing female lawyers around the time of Equatorial Guinea's independence in 1968. She later served as the Dean of the Bar Association of Equatorial Guinea (1990).
Eritrea
  • Fozia Hashim:[55][56][57][58] First female appointed as the Minister of Justice for Eritrea (1993). She served as the Chief Justice of the High Court of Eritrea prior to her appointment.
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
  • Annie Jiagge (1950):[72] First female lawyer in Ghana. She later became the first female judge, as well as the first female Justice of the Supreme Court in Ghana.[73]
  • Joyce Bamford-Addo (1962):[74] First female (a former justice) appointed as the Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana (2009-2013)
  • Georgina Theodora Wood (c. 1970s):[8] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (2007)
Guinea
  • Fatoumata Binta Diallo (1998):[75] First woman who registered to practice law in the Bar of the Republic of Guinea Conakry (Barreau de la République de Guinée)
Guinea-Bissau
  • Maria do Céu Monteiro:[76][77] First female justice elected as the President of the Supreme Court of Justice and the Superior Council of Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast
Kenya
  • Effie Owuor (c. 1960s):[79][80][81][82][83] First female judge of Kenya (upon her appointment as a Judge of the High Court in 1982). She was also the first female to be appointed as a state counsel (c. 1960s), magistrate (1971), and Judge of the Court of Appeal (2003) in Kenya.
  • Kalpana Rawal (1975):[84][85][86][87] First female lawyer in Kenya (upon her establishment of a law practice in 1978). She later became the first female judge of Asian descent in Kenya (2000).
  • Martha Karua (1981):[88] First female (a lawyer) elected by the people to serve as a Member of the Kenyan Parliament (1992)
Lesotho
Liberia
  • Angie Brooks (1953):[95][96] First female lawyer in Liberia. She later became the first female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia (1977).
  • Emma Shannon Walser (1969):[96][97][98] First female judge in Liberia (upon her appointment as a Judge of the Circuit Court of Liberia in 1971)
Libya
Madagascar
  • Berthe Raharijaona:[103] First female lawyer in Madagascar
  • Fanirisoa Ernaivo:[104] First female elected as the President of the Union of Magistrates of Madagascar (2016)
Malawi
Mali
  • Fatoumata Sylla (1982):[111][112][113][114][115][116] First female lawyer in Mali. She later became the first female justice of the peace (1985), first female Bâtonnière of the Bar Association in Mali (1998-2004), and the first female Minister of Justice in Mali (2004-2007).
  • Kaïta Kayentao Diallo:[117][118][114] First female appointed as the President of the Supreme Court of Mali (2006)
  • Diakité Manassa Danioko:[8][114][119] First female appointed as the President of the Constitutional Court of Mali (2015). She was also the first female appointed as the Attorney General of Mali (1995).
Mauritania
Mauritius
  • Laure Pillay (1955):[123] First female lawyer in Mauritius. She later became the first female judge in Mauritius (1967).[124][125]
  • Saheda Peeroo (1972):[126] First Muslim female lawyer in Mauritius
  • Vidya Narayan:[127][128] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mauritius (1993)
Mayotte
Morocco

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Najat Chraibi Berrada (1966):[132] First female registered in the Bar Association of Rabat, Morocco
Mozambique
  • Noémia Neves Anacleto (c. 1953):[133] First female lawyer in Mozambique
  • Gita Honwana Welch:[134][135][136][137] First female academic lawyer in Mozambique. She was also one of Mozambique's first female judges (sometime between 1978-1989).
  • Luísa Chadraca (c. 1990):[138] First woman to enroll with the Bar Association of Mozambique (Ordem dos Advogados de Moçambique)
Namibia
  • Karen Goldblatt Marshall (1966):[139] First female lawyer (non-native) in Namibia (upon being called to the Bar of Windhoek). She later became the first female judge in Namibia.
  • Bience Gawanas (c. 1993):[140][141] First native-born female lawyer in Namibia. She was also the first female appointed as the Head of the Office of the Namibian Ombudsman (1996-2003).
  • Mavis Gibson:[142][143] First female appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Namibia (1995)
  • Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana (1999):[144][145] First female appointed as the Attorney General of Namibia (2001)
  • Martha Imalwa:[146][147] First female appointed as the Prosecutor General of Namibia (2004)
Niger
Nigeria
  • Stella Thomas (1935):[150] First female lawyer in Nigeria. She later became the first female magistrate in Nigeria (1943).
  • Modupe Omo-Eboh (1952):[151][152][153][154] First female judge in Nigeria (upon her appointment as a Judge of the High Court in Nigeria in 1969)
  • Folake Solanke (1962): First female lawyer in Nigeria to become Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Senior Counsel (1981)
  • Victoria Ayodele Uzoamaka Onejeme (1965):[155] First female Attorney General of Nigeria (1978)
  • Aloma Mariam Mukhtar (1967):[156][157] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and its Chief Justice (2009-2014).[8][158] She was also the first female lawyer in Northern Nigeria, as well as the first female Judge of the Kano High Court, Nigeria. [159][160][161]
  • Roseline Ukeje (1971):[162][163][164] First female justice appointed as the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court in Nigeria (2001)

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Mary Slessor:[165][166] First female (non-attorney of Scottish descent) magistrate in what was then Southern Nigeria (c. 1890s). She was also known as being the first female magistrate in the British Empire.
  • Hauwa Ibrahim (c. 1999):[167][168] First Muslim female lawyer in the Yamaltu District in the Gombe State, Nigeria
  • Dulcie Ethel Adunola Oguntoye:[169] First female judge in Lagos State, Nigeria (1976)
  • Rahila Hadea Cudjoe (1972):[170] First female appointed as a Judge of the High Court, as well as the Chief Judge of Kaduna State, Nigeria
  • Aisha Jumai Alhassan:[171] First female lawyer to become Taraba State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, as well as the first woman to become Secretary of the Federal Capital Territory Judicial Council in Nigeria
Republic of the Congo
  • Agathe Pembellot (1969): First female magistrate in the Republic of the Congo (1970)
Réunion

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Gracieuse Lacoste-Etcheverry:[173][174] First female appointed as the President of the Court of Appeal of Saint-Denis (Réunion; 2015)
  • Valérie Lebreton:[175] First female appointed as the President of the Court of Appeal of Saint-Pierre (Réunion; 2017)
Rwanda
  • Agnes Mukabaranga (1994):[176] First woman that registered to practice law in the Rwanda Bar Association
  • Immaculée Nyirinkwaya:[177][178] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Rwanda (1997)
  • Aloysia Cyanzayire:[179][180][8][181] First female justice elected as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rwanda (2003)
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
  • Mame Bassine Niang (1975):[185][186] First female lawyer in Senegal
  • Marie José Crespin:[187][188] First female judge in Senegal
  • Dior Fall Sow (1968):[189] First female prosecutor in Senegal (upon her appointment to the Republic at the Court of First Instance of Saint-Louis in 1976)
  • Mame Madior Boye:[190] First female (a lawyer) appointed as the Prime Minister of Senegal (2001)
Seychelles
  • Danielle Rasool (c. 1970s):[191][192] Reputed to be the first female lawyer in Seychelles
  • Mathilda Twomey (1987):[193] First female judge in Seychelles. She is also the first female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the Seychelles Supreme Court (2015).
  • Fiona Robinson:[194] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Seychelles (2013)
  • Alexia Amesbury (c. 1988):[195] First female (a lawyer) presidential candidate in Seychelles (2015)
Sierra Leone
  • Frances Claudia Wright (1943): First female lawyer in Sierra Leone
  • Agnes Macaulay (1956):[196][197][198][199] First female judge in Sierra Leone (c. 1970)
  • Patricia Macaulay:[200] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone (c. 1994)
  • Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh (c. 1970s):[8] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone (2008)
Somalia
Somaliland
South Africa
  • Irene Antoinette Geffen (1923):[207][208] First female barrister in South Africa
  • Leonora van den Heever (1952):[209][210][211] First female judge in South Africa (1969)
  • Navanethem Pillay (1967):[212][213] First Tamil-Indian female appointed as a Judge of the High Court of South Africa (1995). She was also the first female lawyer to start a law practice in the Natal Province.
  • Desiree Finca (1967):[214] First Black female lawyer in South Africa
  • Eulalia Salgado (1978):[215] First Portuguese female lawyer in South Africa
  • Yvonne Mokgoro (1987) and Kate O'Regan:[216][217][218] First females appointed as Justices of the Constitutional Court of South Africa (1994). Mokgoro is also known as the first Black female judge in South Africa.
  • Lucy Mailula:[219][220] First Black female appointed as a Judge of the High Court of South Africa (1995)
  • Mandisa Maya:[221] First female (and Black female) appointed as President of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa (2017)

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Leona Theron:[222] First Black female appointed as a Judge of the KwaZulu-Natal High Court, South Africa (1999)
Sudan
Swaziland
  • Qinisile Mabuza (1978):[230] First female lawyer in Swaziland. She later became the first female judge in Swaziland.
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
  • J. J. McGrowther (c. 1950s):[244] First female barrister when the country was known as Northern Rhodesia
  • Lombe P. Chibesakunda (1969):[245][246][247] First Zambian female lawyer and first female Solicitor General (1973) in Zambia. She was the first female to serve as Acting Chief Justice of Zambia (2012-2015).
  • Florence Mumba (1973):[248][249][250] First female judge in Zambia (upon her appointment as a Judge of the High Court in Zambia in 1980).
  • Irene Mambilima:[251] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of Zambia (2015)
Zanzibar
  • Janet Sekihola:[252] First female appointed as a Primary Court Magistrate in Zanzibar (c. 1980s)
Zimbabwe
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Asia

Name Attorney Name (Year) / Historical Significance
Afghanistan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bhutan
  • Tashi Chhozom:[12] First female law graduate appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court in Bhutan (2012)
Brunei
  • Hayati binti Mohammad Salleh (1980):[13][14][15][16] First Brunei Malay woman called to the English Bar. She later became the first female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Brunei (2001), as well as the first female Attorney General of Brunei (2009).
Cambodia
  • Kim Lun Khun, Thavry Neth and Thun Leapphy Muong (1995):[17] According to the registry of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia, they were the first female lawyers to register in October 1995.
  • Kim Sothavy:[18][19] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Cambodia (c. 2005)
China
  • Tcheng Yu-hsui (1926):[20][21][22] First female lawyer in China and Shanghai, China. She later became the first female judge in China.
  • Frouma (Flora) Rosemberg (France, 1920; China, 1930) [née Grenberg]:[23][24] First French female admitted to practice law before the Chinese courts
  • Wei Qihong (c. 1990s):[25] First female lawyer of the Va nationality in China

First(s) in a particular region:

East Timor (Timor-Leste)
Hong Kong
  • Teo Soon Kim (1927):[34][35] First female barrister in Hong Kong
  • Patricia Loseby (1953):[36][37] First female admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong
  • Cui Zhiying:[38][39] First female judge in Hong Kong (1976)
  • Doreen Le Pichon (United Kingdom Bar, 1969; Hong Kong Bar, 1972; New York Bar, 1987; US District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1991):[40][41] First female appointed as a Judge of the Court of Appeal of the High Court of Hong Kong (2000)
  • Baroness Hale (1969) and Beverley McLachlin (1969):[42] First females appointed as non-permanent Judges of the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong (2018)
India

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Manjula Chellur:[52] First female lawyer in Bellary, Bellary District of Karnataka. She later became a Chief Justice.
  • Rachel Ashkenazi:[53] First Jewish female lawyer to practice at the Calcutta High Court in India
  • Shiela Didi:[54] One of the first female lawyers in Chandigarh, India
  • Surila Devi:[55] First female lawyer in Lohardaga, India
  • Urmila Ray:[56] First female barrister in Odisha, India
  • Fozia Nazeer (2009):[57][58][59] First locally educated female lawyer in Kashmir. An unknown woman became the Kashmir Bar's first female attorney in 1973.[60]
  • Mehbooba Mufti:[61] First female (a lawyer) Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir (2016)
  • Kapur Renu:[62] First female lawyer in Srinagar, Kashmir
Indonesia

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Desiree Tan:[72] First Chinese Indonesian woman to graduate from what is presently known as the law school of the University of Indonesia [Depok, West Java, Indonesia and Central Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia]
  • Sunaryati Hartono (c. 1958):[73] First woman appointed as a Judge of the Country Country Court (Pengadilan Negeri) in Malang [East Java, Indonesia; 1956-1959)
Iran
Iraq

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Nidal Nassar Hussein:[80][81] First female judge in the Iraqi Shi'ite city of Najaf, Iraq
Israel
  • Rosa Ginossar (Ginzburg) (1930):[82] First female lawyer in Israel
  • Eugenia Winogradov (1939):[83][84] First female judge in Israel (1948)
  • Miriam Ben-Porat (1945):[85] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel (1977)
  • Hana Mansour-Khatib:[86][87] First female appointed as a Judge of the Shari'a Court in Israel (2017)
  • Havi Toker:[88] First ultra-Orthodox female judge in Israel (2018)
Japan

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Hisako Yukawa (1957):[97] First female lawyer in Kyushu, Japan
Jordan
  • Emily Bisharat:[98][99] First female lawyer in Jordan
  • Taghreed Hikmat:[100][101] First female judge in Jordan (1996)
  • Noura al-Jariri:[102][103] First blind female lawyer in Jordan
  • Ihssan Barakat:[104][105][106] First female appointed as the Chief Justice of the West Amman Court of First Instance (2007), Attorney General (2010-2011), and Judge in the Cassation Court (2018)
Kazakhstan
  • Aitpaeva Saule Muhanbedianovna (c. 1979):[107][108][109] First female (a lawyer) to achieve the rank of general in Kazakhstan (2013)
Kuwait
  • Badria al-Awadhi[110]: First female to study law in Kuwait
  • Hanadi Al-Omani:[111][112] First female lawyer with visual impairment in Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
  • Kydyrbaeva Fatima Chapievna (1945):[113] First female lawyer to become the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Kirghiz SSR (1942-1947)
  • Aida Salyanova:[114][115] First female appointed as the Prosecutor General of the Kyrgyz Republic (2011-2015)
Lebanon
  • Paulette Ameslend Tamer (1931):[116] First female law intern of French origin registered in Lebanon
  • Nina Trad (1932):[117][118][119][120] First female lawyer in Lebanon
  • Katina Gholam and Georgette Arbid Chidiac:[121][122][123][124] First female judges in Lebanon (1965)
Macau
  • Linxiao Yun (1993):[125] First female barrister in Macau
  • Song Man Lei:[126][127][128] First female judge in Macau (upon her appointment as a Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Macau in 2012). She was also the first female appointed as a prosecutor in Macau (1996).
Malaysia
  • B.H. Oon (1927):[129][130] First female lawyer in Malaysia
  • Tan Sri Dato' Seri Siti Norma binti Yaakob (1962):[131][132] First female judge in Malaysia (upon her appointment as a Judge of the High Court in 1983). She later became the first female Judge of the Court of Appeal (1994-2000) and first female Chief Judge of Malaysia (2005-2007).
  • Ainum Mohd Saaid:[133][134] First female Attorney General of Malaysia (2001)
  • Noor Huda Roslan and Nenney Shuhaidah:[135][136] First female judges of the Shari'a High Court in Malaysia (2016)

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Zaleha Kamarudin (1986):[137][138][139] First female appointed as a Judge of the Syariah Court of Appeal of the state of Terengganu (2017)
Maldives
  • Mariya Ahmed Didi: First female lawyer in Maldives
  • Aisha Shujoon Mohamed and Huzaifa Mohamed:[140] First female judges in Maldives (2007)
Mongolia
  • Binjelkh Tserenbaljir:[141] First female lawyer in Mongolia
  • T. Enkhtuya:[142][143] First female appointed as a Judge of the Aimag Court (1992). She later became the first female Chief Justice of the Civil Court of Appeal and the Court of Appeals of the First Civil Prosecutor's Office in Mongolia.
Myanmar (Burma)
  • Daw Phwar Hmee (1925):[144][145] First female barrister in Myanmar (Burma)
  • Daw Hme Khin:[146][147][148] First female judge in Myanmar (Burma) (1928)
Nepal
  • Shanti Devi Chhetri (1961):[149][150][151] First female lawyer in Nepal
  • Ambika Acharya:[152] First female judge in Nepal (1966)
  • Sharada Shrestha:[153][154] First female appointed as a Judge of the District Court in Nepal (1967)
  • Silu Singh:[153][155][156] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court in Nepal (c. 2001)
  • Sushila Karki (1978):[157][158] First female appointed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nepal (2016)
  • Mohna Ansari (2003):[159] First female Muslim lawyer in Nepal
North Korea
Oman
  • Kamilia al Busaidy (1997):[162] First female registered lawyer in Oman
  • Sahar Askalan:[163] First Omani woman to set up a law firm in Oman
Pakistan

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Saima Anwar (2015):[169] First woman to practice law in Northern Pakistan (Swat Valley)
Palestine
Philippines
  • Natividad Almeda-López (1914):[176][177] First female lawyer in the Philippines. She later became the first female judge in the Philippines (1934), as well as the first female appointed as a Judge of the Court of Appeals in the Philippines.
  • Cecilia Muñoz-Palma (1937):[178] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (1973). She was also the first female district court judge in the Philippines (1954), as well as the first female prosecutor for Quezon City, Philippines (1947).
  • Marian Aleido (1979):[179] First female appointed as the Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (2012)
  • Maria Lourdes Sereno:[180] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (2012)

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Maria Francisco de Villacerna:[181] First female lawyer in Pampanga, Philippines
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
  • Arwa Al-Hujaili (2010):[186][187][188][189] First female trainee lawyer in Saudi Arabia (2013)
  • Bayan Mahmoud Al-Zahran (2013):[190][191] First female lawyer in Saudi Arabia. She later founded the first all-woman law firm in Saudi Arabia in 2014.
  • Shaimaa Sadeq Al-Jibran:[192][193] First female appointed as a commercial judge in Saudi Arabia (2016)
  • Laila Mohammed Al-Qabi (2016):[194] First blind female lawyer in Saudi Arabia
Singapore
  • Teo Soon Kim (1929):[195] First female lawyer admitted to the Bar in the Straits Settlement
  • Jenny Lau Buong Bee (1957):[196][197][198] First female judge in Singapore (1966)
  • Ong Cheng See (c. 1960s):[199] First woman advocate / solicitor admitted to the Singapore Bar that attended a university within the country
  • Lai Siu Chiu (1973):[200][201] First woman to serve as a Judicial Commissioner (1991) and the first woman appointed as a Judge of the High Court in the Supreme Court of Singapore (1994)
  • Judith Prakash:[202] First female appointed as a permanent Judge of the Singapore Court of Appeal (2016)
South Korea
  • Lee Tai-Young (1952):[203][204] First female lawyer (born in what later became North Korea) in South Korea. She completed her two years of training by 1954, but did not set up a law practice until 1957. She later became a judge.
  • Hwang Yun-suk (passed a Judicial Examination in 1952):[205][206] First female judge in South Korea (1954)[207]
  • Kang Kum-sil:[208][209][210][211] First female appointed as the Minister of Justice for South Korea (2003-2004)
  • Kim Young-ran:[212][213] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Korea (2004)
  • Park Han-hee (2017):[214] First openly LGBT lawyer in South Korea
Sri Lanka
  • Avabai Bomanji Wadia (1934):[215] First Sri Lankan woman to pass the bar examination, but could not find employment as an attorney
  • Ezlynn Deraniyagala (1935): First female lawyer in Sri Lanka
  • Shiranee Tilakawardane:[216][217] First female judge in Sri Lanka (upon her appointment as a Judge of the High Court in 1988). She is also the first female appointed as a State Counsel (1978), Judge of the Admiralty Court, Justice of the Court of Appeal (1998) and President of the Court of Appeal.
  • Shirani Bandaranayake (1983):[218] First female appointed to the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka (1996)
  • Eva Wansundera (1997):[219][220] First female to serve as Senior State Counsel, Deputy Solicitor General, Additional Solicitor General, Solicitor General (2011) and Attorney General of Sri Lanka (2011-2012)
Syria
  • Buran Tarazi Aziz:[221] Reputed to be the first female lawyer in Syria
  • Ghāda Murād:[222][223][224][225] First female judge in Syria (1975). She was also the first female prosecutor in Syria.

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Amna Minni:[226] First female appointed as the Head of the Bar Association in Lattakia, Syria
Taiwan
  • Shi Qiyun:[227] Reputed to be the first female lawyer in Taiwan
  • Chang Chin-lan (1940):[228][229][230][231] First female judge in Taiwan. She was also the first female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of China (1956).
  • Shi Liang:[232][233] First female appointed as the Justice Minister of the People's Republic of China (1949-1959)
Tajikistan
Thailand
Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates
  • Khulood al Dhaheri:[244][245][246] First female judge in the United Arab Emirates (2008)
  • Fatima Al Qubaisi (2017):[247][248] First Emirati woman to graduate with a law degree from Paris-Sorbonne University in Abu Dhabi, as well as the first Emirati woman to graduate from Harvard Law School

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Wedad Huda Azhari Doleh:[249] First female lawyer in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Cynthia Trench (1996):[250] First female expatriate to be licensed as a lawyer in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Ebtisam Ali Rashid Al Bedwawi:[251][252] First female judge in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2009)
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
  • Bùi Thị Cẩm:[254][255] First female lawyer in Vietnam
  • Vũ Thị Châu:[256][257] First female judge in Vietnam (c. 1950s)

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Trai Le (c. 1956)[258]: First female lawyer in Central Vietnam [specifically in Huế, Vietnam]
  • Le Thi Kim Soa:[259] Reputed to be the first female lawyer to open a law practice in North-Central Vietnam [specifically the Nghệ An Province, Vietnam]
  • Nguyễn Phước Đại (1951)[260][261]: First female lawyer under the South Vietnamese government [specifically in Saigon, Vietnam]
  • Maj. Ann Wansley:[262] First female judge advocate in the U.S. Army, Vietnam (1966-1967)
Yemen
  • Shada Nasser[263] (1989): First female lawyer in Yemen
  • Hamida Zakaria:[264][265] First female judge in Yemen (1971)
  • Samia Abdullah Saeed:[266][267][268] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Yemen (2006)
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Australia and Oceania

Name Attorney Name (Year) / Historical Significance
American Samoa
  • Barbara A. Sena Waite (c. 1970s):[1] First female lawyer in American Samoa
  • Mere Tuiasosopo Betham:[2][3][4] First female judge (native-born) in American Samoa (upon her appointment as a Associate Judge of the High Court of American Samoa in 1991)
Australia
  • Flos Greig (1905):[5] First female lawyer in Australia
  • Auvergne Doherty (1922): First Western Australian female called to the English Bar following the enactment of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919
  • Roma Mitchell (1962):[6][7][8][9] First female judge in Australia (1965). She was also the first female Queen's Counsel (QC) in South Australia.
  • Susan Kiefel (1975): First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (2016). She was also the first female Queen's Counsel (QC) in Queensland and the first female appointed as a Justice of the Norfolk Island Supreme Court (2004).
  • Mary Gaudron (1981):[10] First female appointed as a Justice of the High Court in Australia (1987). She was also the first female Queen's Counsel (QC) in New South Wales.
  • Nicola Roxon:[11] First female appointed as the Attorney General of Australia (2011-2013)

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Marie Beuzeville Byles (1924):[12] First female solicitor in New South Wales, Australia
  • Margaret Sleeman:[13] First female magistrate in New South Wales, Australia (1970)
  • Sally Gearin (1990):[14] First female lawyer in the Northern Territory Bar
  • Agnes McWhinney (1915): First female solicitor in Queensland, Australia
  • Mary Kitson (1917):[15] First female lawyer in South Australia
  • Shan Tennent (1977):[16] First female appointed as a Justice of the Tasmania Supreme Court, Australia (2005)
  • Joan Rosanove (1965):[17] First female Queen's Counsel (QC) in Victoria, Australia
  • Pamela Tate (1987):[18] First female appointed as the Solicitor General in Victoria, Australia (2003-2010)
  • Linda Lovett (2006):[19][20] First Aboriginal female lawyer in Victoria, Australia
  • Christine Wheeler (1994): First female Queen's Counsel (QC) in Western Australia
  • Elizabeth Nickolls:[21] Reputed to be the first female solicitor in the Western District of Victoria, Australia
Cook Islands
  • Janet Maki:[22][23][24][25] First female Solicitor General in the Cook Islands (c. 1998), as well as the first female Ombudsman in the Cook Islands (c. 2006)
  • Christine Grice:[26] First female judge in the Cook Islands (2007)
Fiji
  • Patricia Hackett (c. 1930):[27] First female lawyer to take out a practicing lawyer's certificate in Fiji
  • Mere Pulea:[28][29] First Fijian female to earn a law degree. She was later appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Fiji.
  • Vusega Helu:[28] First female (of Tongan descent) magistrate in Fiji (c. 1980s)
  • Nazhat Shameem:[30][31] First female judge (who is of Indo-Fijian descent) in Fiji (upon her appointment as a Judge of the High Court of Fiji in 1999)
French Polynesia
Guam
  • Janet Healy Weeks (c. 1970s):[33][34] First female lawyer appointed to the Guam Bar. She later became the first female judge in Guam.[35]
  • Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson (c. 1979):[36] First Chamorro female lawyer in Guam. She is the first female appointed as the Attorney General of Guam.
  • Marie Tydingco-Gatewood (1983):[37][38] First Chamorro female judge in Guam (1994). She is also known for becoming the first Chamorro female appointed as the Assistant Attorney General in the Prosecution Division on Guam (1984).
  • Jacqueline Nguyen (1991)[39]: First Vietnamese American and Asian-Pacific female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2012)
  • Katherine Maraman:[40][41] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Guam (2017)
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
  • Rosalie Konou (1983):[44] First female lawyer in the Marshall Islands
  • Grace L. Leban:[45][46][47] First female appointed as a full-time Judge of the Traditional Rights Court in Marshall Islands (2010)
Micronesia
  • Beauleen Carl-Worswick (1992):[48] First Micronesian female lawyer and first female Justice of the Supreme Court
  • Janet Healy Weeks (c. 1970s):[49][50] First female judge in Micronesia
  • Marstella Jack:[51][52] First female appointed as the Attorney General of Micronesia's Department of Justice (2005)
Nauru
  • Barina Waqa:[53] First female lawyer in Nauru
  • I.V. Helu-Mocelutu:[54] First female appointed as the Resident Magistrate in Nauru (1990)
  • Jane Hamilton-White (1998):[55][56][57] First female judge of Nauru (upon her appointment as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nauru in 2014)
New Caledonia
  • Thérèse Pelletier (1977):[58] First female admitted to practice law in New Caledonia per the bar association's records
  • Nadine Pidjot (2017):[59] First Kanak female lawyer admitted to the Bar of Nouméa
New Zealand
Niue
  • Sisilia Talagi:[78][79][80][81] First female appointed as the High Commissioner of Niue to New Zealand (2005-2011)
  • Sarah Reeves (1985):[82][83] First female appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Niue (2014)
Norfolk Island
Northern Mariana Islands
  • Jacqueline Nguyen (1991)[93]: First Vietnamese American and Asian-Pacific female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2012)
  • Ramona Villagomez Manglona (1996):[94][95] First female lawyer in the Northern Mariana Islands. She later became the first female appointed as a Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern Marianas (2011).
Palau
  • Ernestine Rengiil (1987):[96][97] First Palauan female lawyer in Palau. She is also known as the first Palauan female to become an Attorney General (1992).
  • Jerrlyn Uduch Sengebau Senior:[97][98] First female judge in Palau (upon her appointment as an Associate Judge of the Land Court in 1999)
  • Kathleen M. Salii:[97] First female appointed as an Associate Justice of the Palau Supreme Court (2000)
  • Lourdes F. Materne:[97] First female appointed as a Senior Judge of the Palau Court of Common Pleas (2003)
Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn Islands
  • Judith Potter (1965):[108][109] First female (a New Zealander) appointed as a Judge of the Pitcairn Court of Appeal (2012)
Samoa
  • Ruby Drake:[110] First female lawyer in Samoa
  • Mata Keli Tuatagaloa:[111][112][113] First female judge in Samoa (upon her appointment as a Judge of the District Court of Samoa in 2011). She later became the first female Justice of the Supreme Court (2015).
  • Mareva Betham-Annandale:[114][115] First female elected as the President of the Samoa Law Society (c. 2014)
Solomon Islands
  • Ester Lelapitu:[116][117] First female appointed as a magistrate in the Solomon Islands (1999)
  • Jane Hamilton-White: First female appointed as the Principal Magistrate of the Solomon Islands (c. 2003-2005)
  • Nkemdilim Izuako[118]: First female appointed as a Puisne Judge of the High Court of the Solomon Islands (2008)
  • Katalaini Ziru:[119] First female elected as the President of the Solomon Islands Bar Association (2014)
  • Emma Garo:[120][121][122][123] First female appointed as a Principal Magistrate in the Central Magistrates Court (2007) and the Chief Magistrate of the Solomon Islands (2017). Garo is also known as one of the first qualified female lawyers in the Solomon Islands.
Tokelau
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
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Europe

Name Attorney Name (Year) / Historical Significance
Abkhazia
  • Nelly Eshba:[1][2][3] First female lawyer in Abkhazia
Åland Islands
Albania
Andorra
  • Sonia Artal Conesa (2013):[9] First female lawyer of Spanish nationality to practice in Andorra
  • Laurence Burgogue-Larsen:[10][11] First female appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Andorra (2012)
Armenia See entry for Russia.
  • Eva Darbinyan:[12][13] First female appointed as a Judge of the Criminal and Military Appeal Court
  • Arpine Hovhannisyan (2006): First female lawyer to become the Justice Minister in Armenia (2015)
Austria
  • Marianne Beth (1922):[14] First female lawyer in Austria
  • Johanna Kundmann and Gertrude Sollinger:[15][16][17] First female judges in Austria (1947)
Azerbaijan
  • Bilqeyis Haşımzadə (c. 1940s):[18][19][20] First female lawyer in Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
  • Marie Popelin (1888):[22] First female to practice law in Belgium, but denied the ability to do so
  • Paule Lemy and Marcelle Renson (May / June 1922):[23][24][25][26] The first women who respectively took the oath of lawyer in Belgium
  • Geneviève Janssen-Pevtschin (1937):[27][28][29] First female judge in Belgium (1948)
  • Anne Thily: First female appointed as the Attorney General of Belgium (1996)
  • Najat Arbib:[30][31] First Moroccan female magistrate in Belgium (2010)

First(s) in a particular region:

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
  • Vera Zlatareva (1945):[36] First female lawyer in Bulgaria
  • Neviana Hristova:[37][38] First female lawyer to become a prosecutor in Bulgaria (1953)

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Dafinka Chakarova:[39] First female appointed as a Judge of the Devin District Court in Devin, Bulgaria
Channel Islands
Croatia
  • Mara Ilić (1929):[47] First female lawyer in Croatia
  • Jasna Omejec (1985): First female to serve as the President of the Constitutional Court of Croatia (2008-2016)
  • Aleksandra Bogdan:[48] First female lawyer to head the State Attorney's Office of the Republic of Croatia

First(s) in a Particular Region (arranged by location):

Cyprus

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Penelope Athinodorou-Mantis:[53] First female lawyer in Paphos, Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Anne Mette Ovesen (2003):[62] First female appointed to the Ministry of Justice in Hjørring Retskreds (Denmark)
Estonia
  • Ilse Zimmermann (1922):[63] First female lawyer in Estonia
  • Leida Puusepp and Miralda Tooma:[64][65] First female judges in Estonia (1940-1941)
Faroe Islands
Finland
France

First(s) in a particular region:

Georgia
  • Nino Kipiani:[90] First female lawyer in Georgia
  • Tinatin Khidasheli (c. 1990s):[91] First female (a lawyer) Minister of Defense in Georgia (2015)
  • Eka Tkeshelashvili (1997):[92] First female appointed as the Attorney General of Georgia (2008)

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Firde Nizharadze:[93] First female lawyer in Adjara, Georgia
Germany

First(s) in a Particular Region (arranged by location):

Gibraltar
  • Janet Smith (1972):[113][114] First female appointed as a Judge of the Gibraltar Court of Appeal (2017)
  • Gillian Guzman (2012):[115] First female Queen's Counsel (QC)
  • Karen Ramagge Prescott:[116][117] First Gibraltarian female appointed as a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Gibraltar (2010) and Bencher of the Middle Temple (2017)
Greece

First(s) in a particular region:

Greenland
  • Agnete Weis Bentzon:[122] First female lawyer to perform a legal expedition in Greenland (the result of which led to the creation of a criminal law system in Greenland). She served as a judge in Greenland from 1963 to 1964.[123] Prior to the expedition, she had the distinction of being Denmark's first female professor of law.
Hungary

First(s) in a Particular Region (arranged by location):

Iceland
  • Auður Auðuns (1935): First female lawyer in Iceland
  • Guðrún Erlendsdóttir:[126][127][128] First female appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court (c. 1986) and President of the Supreme Court (c. 1991)
Ireland

First(s) in a particular region:

Isle of Man
Italy

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Silvana Caccarielli:[173] First female lawyer in Empoli, Italy
  • Lucia Lavagnini:[174] First female lawyer in Massa Carrara, Italy
  • Maria Giuseppina Truini Palomba (1964):[175] First female lawyer of the Province of Rieti, Italy
  • Giovanna Crespellani:[176] First female lawyer in Sardinia, Italy
  • Caterina Giglio Margherita:[177] First female criminal lawyer in Taranto, Italy
Kosovo
Latvia
Liechtenstein
  • Gertrud Beck (1956):[182][183] First female lawyer in Liechtenstein
  • Cornelia Gassner:[184][185] First female (a lawyer) to serve as a member of Liechtenstein's government (1993)
Lithuania
Luxembourg
  • Marguerite Welter (1923):[188] First female lawyer in Luxembourg
  • Martine Solovieff:[189][190] First female State Attorney General in Luxembourg (2015)
Macedonia

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Gordana Takesz:[192][193] First female lawyer in Bitola, Macedonia
  • Suna Naunova-Koceva:[194] First female lawyer in Sveti Nikole, Macedonia
Malta
  • Joanna Digiorgio (1949):[195] First female lawyer in Malta
  • Lorraine Schembri Orland:[196] First female elected to Chambers of Advocates of Malta (1986)
  • Abigail Lofaro and Anna Felice:[197][198] First female judges in Malta (2006)
Moldova
Monaco
  • Laurence Aureglia (1959):[199] First female lawyer in Monaco
  • Monique François:[200][201] First Monegasque female magistrate appointed as the First President of the Court of Appeal of the Principality of Monaco (c. 2012)
Montenegro
  • Ksenija Raičević:[202][203] First female appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Montenegro
  • Vesna Medenica:[202][203] First female appointed as a state prosecutor in Montenegro
Netherlands
Northern Cyprus
  • Shefika Hassan Hilmi Durduran (c. 1970s):[209] First Turkish Cypriot woman to have registered to practice law in Northern Cyprus
  • Gönül Başaran Erönen (1975):[52] First female appointed as a Justice of the Northern Cyprus Supreme Court (1994)
  • Emine Çolak (1980): First female (a lawyer) Minister of Foreign Affairs of Northern Cyprus
Norway

First(s) in a particular region:

Poland

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Zofia Majmeskul-Mastalerzowa (1923):[224] First female lawyer in Cracow, Poland
Portugal

First(s) in a particular region:

Romania
  • Sarmiza Bilcescu (1891):[232] First female to register with the Romanian Bar, but did not practice
  • Ella Negruzzi (1913):[36] First female lawyer in Romania to practice law
  • Veronica Zosin Gorgos:[233][234] First female (who was of Jewish descent) prosecutor (1944) and magistrate in Romania
  • Yolanda Eminescu (1943), Sanda Rosetti, and Steliana Popescu:[235] First female judges in Romania (1945)
  • Carmen Thea Kahane:[236] First female military prosecutor of Romania
  • Laura Codruța Kövesi:[237] First female Attorney General of Romania (2006-2012)
  • Simina Avram:[238][239] First female military magistrate in Romania (2011)
Russia

First(s) in a Particular Region (arranged by location):

San Marino
  • Maria Selva:[245][246] First female lawyer to become the President of the Order of Lawyers and Notaries in San Marino (Ordine degli Avvocati e Notai della Repubblica di San Marino; 2012)
Serbia

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Milica Kulidžan:[248] Reputed to be the first female lawyer in Kikinda, Serbia
Slovakia
  • Louise Pappova (1925):[249] First woman advocate candidate in Slovakia inscribed into the list of advocates. She was registered in the Bar Association of the Bar of Turcianski of St. Martin in Slovakia.
  • Alzhbet Zieglerov:[249][250] First woman advocate in Slovakia. She was the first female student in the Faculty of Law and first female lawyer registered to practice in Kosice, Slovakia.
  • Zdeňka Patschová:[57] First female judge in the 1930s when the country was a part of Czechoslovakia
Slovenia
  • Zora Tominšek (1929) and Zdenka Brejc-Perne (1937):[251][252][253][254] First female lawyers in Slovenia respectively
  • Miroslava Geč-Korošec (1966):[255] First female appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia (1988)
Spain
  • María Ascensión Olivella Marín (1921):[256][257] First female lawyer to actually practice law in Spain
  • Victoria Kent (1924):[257][258] First female lawyer to achieve a high political position in Spain. She served as the Director General of Prisons from 1931-1934.
  • Maria Lluïsa Algarra Coma:[259][260][261][262] First female judge in Spain (1936)
  • Elvira Fernández Almoguera Casas:[263][264] First female prosecutor in Spain (1937). She was also the first female called to the Bar Association of Albacete.
  • Julia Álvarez Resano:[263][264] First female magistrate in Spain (1938)
  • Concepción Carmen Venero:[265][266][267][268][269][270] First female appointed as a Judge of the Juvenile Court in Spain (1971)
  • María Belén del Valle:[263][271] First female (a lawyer) appointed to the fiscal career in Spain (1974)
  • Josefina Triguero Agudo:[263][272] First female appointed as a Judge of First Instance and Instruction after passing the examination (1977)
  • Gloria Begué:[273] First female appointed as a magistrate (1980) and the Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of Spain (1986-1989). She was also the first female law professor (1964) and Dean of the Faculty of Law (1969) at the University of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain.
  • Milagros Calvo:[274][275] First female magistrate of the Supreme Court of Spain (Fourth Chamber; 2002)
  • Ángela Murillo:[276][277] First female magistrate of the Criminal Chamber of the National Court in Spain. She was also the first female to serve as its President (2008).
  • Consuelo Madrigal (1980):[278] First female appointed as the Attorney General of Spain (2015-2016)
  • Clara Martinez de Careaga (1981):[279] First female appointed as a magistrate of the Military Chamber of the Supreme Court of Spain (2009)
  • María Elósegui:[280] First female from Spain appointed as a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France (2018)

First(s) in a particular region:

Svalbard
Sweden
Switzerland
  • Emilie Kempin-Spyri (1887):[291] First female to graduate with a law degree in Switzerland, but denied the ability to practice law
  • Anna Mackenroth (1898):[294] First female lawyer in Switzerland and Zurich, Switzerland
  • Ita Maria Eisenring:[295][296][297] First female prosecutor (1959) and Swiss cantonal judge (1979) in Switzerland
  • Brigitte Lembwadio:[298] Reputed to be the first female lawyer of Congolese origin to practice in Switzerland

First(s) in a particular region:

Turkey
Ukraine See entry for Russia

First(s) in a particular region:

United Kingdom[306]

First(s) in a particular Region:

  • Angela Gladwell Tuckett:[325] First female solicitor in Bristol, England
  • Janet Mack (1941):[326] First female solicitor in Cheltenham, England
  • Catherine Turner (1978):[327] First female solicitor in Hartlepool, County Durham, England
  • Ada Croft Baker:[328] Reputed to be the first female magistrate in Lincolnshire, England
  • Elsie Bowerman (1924):[329] First female barrister to practice at the Old Bailey, London, United Kingdom
  • Myrella Cohen (1950):[330][331] First female barrister, first female Queen's Counsel (QC) and the first female to occupy professional judicial office in the North East
  • Edith Williams:[332] First female solicitor in Shropshire, England
  • Agnes Twiston Hughes (1923):[333] First female solicitor in Wales
  • Jane Crowley (1998):[334] First female barrister to become Queen's Counsel (QC) in Wales
  • Karen Bailey:[335] First Black woman to set up a law practice in Birmingham City Centre, West Midlands (1996)
  • Anne Ashton (1955):[336] First female solicitor in Winchester, United Kingdom
Vatican City
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North America

Name Attorney Name (Year) / Historical Significance
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
  • E. Ann Henry (c. 1980s):[6] First female lawyer in Antigua and Barbuda
  • Monica Theresa Joseph:[2][3][4] First female appointed as a Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (1982)
  • Gertel Thom (1982):[7] First female lawyer to become Attorney-General of Antigua and Barbuda (1998-2001). She is also the first woman to sit in the Antigua and Barbuda Cabinet (2001).
  • Janice Pereira (British Virgin Islands, 1981):[5] First female (and British Virgin Islander) justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (2012)
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
  • Marie Elizabeth Bourne-Hollands (1947):[22] First female to practice law in Barbados
  • Norma E. Maynard-Marshall (1962):[23] First female solicitor in Barbados
  • Marie McCormack (1971):[24][25] First female judge (1971) and Judge of the High Court (1995) in Barbados
  • Sandra Mason (1975):[23][26][27] First Barbadian woman admitted to the Barbados Bar Association. She was the first female appointed as a Judge of the Court of Appeal (2008), as well as the first female magistrate appointed as an Ambassador from Barbados.
Belize
  • Hadie Goldson:[28] First female lawyer in Belize
  • Zoila Ellis-Browne:[29] First Garifuna female lawyer in Belize
  • Michelle Arana:[30] First female judge in Belize (2006)
  • Vanessa Retreage:[31] First female appointed as the Attorney General in Belize (2015)
Bermuda
  • Lois Browne-Evans (1953):[32][33] First female lawyer in Bermuda
  • Dianna Kempe (1970):[34] First female lawyer to become Queen's Counsel (QC) in Bermuda (2000)
  • Norma Wade-Miller (1977):[35][36][37][38] First female magistrate in Bermuda. She was also the first female Judge of the High Court, Justice of the Supreme Court of Bermuda and Acting Chief Justice in Bermuda.
Bonaire
British Virgin Islands
  • Dancia Penn:[10][40] First female lawyer in the British Virgin Islands. She became the first British Virgin Islander female to be appointed Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands in 1992.
  • Paula Beaubrun:[10] First female Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands (c. 1970s)
  • Monica Theresa Joseph:[2][3][4] First female appointed as a Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (1982)
  • Janice Pereira (British Virgin Islands, 1981):[5] First female (and British Virgin Islander) justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (2012)
Canada[41][42]
  • Clara Brett Martin (1897): First female lawyer in Canada
  • Alice Jamieson and Emily Murphy:[43][44][45][46][47] First female judges in Canada (1914-1916)
  • Helen Kinnear (1920):[48][49] First female appointed as a judge by the Government of Canada (1943). She was also the first female lawyer in the British Commonwealth to become a King's Counsel (1934) and to argue a case before the Supreme Court of Canada (1935)
  • Greta Grant (1946): First female lawyer of Chinese ancestry in Canada
  • Violet King Henry (1954):[50] First Black female lawyer in Canada
  • Gabrielle Vallée (1954):[51] First female appointed as the Associate Chief Justice of a Superior Court of Canada (1976)
  • Réjane Laberge-Colas (1957):[52] First female appointed as a Judge of the Superior Court in Canada (1969)
  • Beverley McLachlin (1969):[53][54][55] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of Canada (2000-2017)
  • Marion Ironquil Meadmore (1977):[42] First indigenous female lawyer in Canada
  • Bertha Wilson (c. 1950s):[56][57][58] First female appointed as a Justice of Supreme Court in Canada (1982). She was also the first woman to sit on the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1975.
  • Rosalie Abella:[59] First Jewish female judge in Canada (1975) and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (2004)
  • Kim Campbell (1984): First female (a lawyer) Prime Minister of Canada
  • Palbinder K. Shergill (1991):[60] First female (a Sikh) turbaned judge in Canada (2017)

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Lillian Ruby Clements (c. 1915):[61] First woman called to the bar in Alberta, Canada
  • Mabel French (1912):[42][62][63] First female lawyer called to the British Columbia Bar and New Brunswick
  • Alicia Hubbard (2014):[64] First woman called to the bar in Salmon Arm, British Columbia
  • Lesley Ault:[65] First female lawyer in Leeds and Grenville County, as well as Dundas County [Canada]
  • I.R. Macbean (c. 1917):[66] First woman called to the bar in Manitoba, Canada
  • Louise Saunders (1933): First female lawyer in Newfoundland, Canada
  • Shirley Giroday (1956):[67] First female lawyer in Northern British Columbia, Canada. She later became a judge.
  • Frances Fish (1918):[68][69] First female lawyer in Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Kathryn M. Dumke (c. 1990s):[70] First openly LGBT lawyer to practice in Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Sandra Kunuk Inutiq (2006):[71] First Inuk female lawyer in Nunuvat
  • Lida Bell Pearson (1921):[42] First female lawyer in Preston, Ontario
  • Annie Epstein Baker (1929):[42] Reputed to be the first Jewish woman called to the Ontario Bar [Canada]
  • Delia Opekokew (1979): First Aboriginal female lawyer called to the Ontario Bar and Saskatchewan Bar [Canada]
  • Susan Ursel (1986):[42] First openly LGBT female lawyer in Ontario, Canada
  • Mary McNulty (1918):[42] First female lawyer in Ottawa, Canada
  • Roma Stewart (1926):[72] First female lawyer in Prince Edward Island, Canada
  • Agnes Kristin Krantz:[73] First female lawyer in Prince George, Canada
  • Elizabeth Monk (1942)[74] and Suzanne R. Fillion (1942):[75][76] First women called to the Ordre du Barreau québécois, Canada
  • Jeanne D'Arc Lemay (1946): First female first woman admitted to the Quebec Bar, Canada
  • Gabrielle Vallée (1950):[77] First female lawyer elected as the Bâtonnière in Quebec (1973)
  • Claire L'Heureux-Dubé (1952):[78] First female judge in the Court of Appeal of Quebec, Canada (1979)
  • Nicole Duval Hesler (1968):[76] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of Quebec (2011)
  • Ginette Fournier (c. 1950s):[77] First female lawyer in Quebec City, Quebec [Canada]
  • Thérèse Lemay-Lavoie (c. 1950s):[77] First female lawyer in Saint-Georges-de-Beauce, Quebec [Canada]
  • Fanny Wylde (2007):[79] First female lawyer from the Algonquin Nation and the first public prosecutor of the Couronne autochtone du Québec
  • Edna Ferguson (1930): First female lawyer in St. Thomas, Canada
  • Margaret Burgess (1917):[80] First woman to be called to the Saskatchewan Bar [Canada]
  • Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond:[81] First First Nations female judge in Saskatchewan (Canada, 1998)
Cayman Islands
  • Adrianne Webb (1975):[82] First female lawyer in the Cayman Islands
  • Priya Levers:[83][84] First female appointed as a Judge of the Grand Court in the Cayman Islands (2003)
Costa Rica
  • Ángela Acuña Braun (c. 1925): First female lawyer in Costa Rica
  • María Eugenia Vargas Solera:[85][86][87] First female judge in Costa Rica (upon her appointment as a Judge of the Juvenile Protection of Costa Rica in 1956)
  • Maruja Chacón Pacheco:[88][89] First female magistrate Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Costa Rica (1997)
  • Zarela Villanueva Monge (c. 1970s):[90][91] First female to preside over the Supreme Court of Costa Rica (2013)
  • Doris Arias Madrigal:[92] First female justice appointed to the Presidency of the Criminal Chamber (2017)
  • Emilia Navas:[93] First female appointed as the Attorney General of Costa Rica (2018)

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Virginia Martén Pagés (c. 1947):[94][95] First female lawyer (and notary) to graduate from the University of Costa Rica [San Pedro Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica]
Cuba
  • Esperanza de Quesada Villalón:[96][97][98]: First female lawyer in Cuba
  • Rosa Anders:[99][100] First female appointed as a Public Defender in Cuba
Curaçao
Dominica
Dominican Republic
  • Minerva Argentina Mirabal (c. 1940s)[104]: First woman to graduate with a law degree, but she was denied the right to practice law.
  • Ana Teresa Paredas:[105][106][107] First female lawyer in the Dominican Republic
El Salvador
  • Alma Paredes Delgado:[108] First female lawyer in El Salvador
  • Miriam Geraldine Aldana Revelo:[109] First (female) Judge of the Courts of Extinction of Domain (2004)
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
  • Alba Alonso de Quesada:[121] First female lawyer in Honduras
  • Edith Rivera de López Castro (1969):[122][123] First female magistrate in Honduras (1983)
Jamaica
  • Lily Tai Ten Quee (1934):[124][125] First female Chinese barrister in Jamaica
  • Daisy Lucille Chambers (1948): First female lawyer in Jamaica[126][127]
  • Ena Joyce Collymore-Woodstock (1947; Bar's Gray Inn, England):[127][128][129] First female judge in Jamaica (upon her appointment as the Resident Magistrate in 1959). She was also the first female appointed as the Clerk of the Courts (1950).
  • Ena Blanche Allen (1953):[127][128][130] First female in Jamaica appointed as a Puisne Justice for the Supreme Court (1975)
  • Marjory "Madge" Morgan (1961):[10][127][128][131] First female Judge of the Court of Appeal in Jamaica (1988)
  • Zaila McCalla (1976):[132] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of Jamaica (2007)
  • Margaret Ramsay-Hale (1991):[133][134][135] First female lawyer in Jamaica to become a Queen's Counsel (QC) (1994)
Martinique
  • Andrée Pierre-Rose Bocaly (1945):[136][137] First female lawyer in Martinique
  • Thérèse Yoyo-Likao:[138][139] First female elected as the Bâtonnière du Barreau de la Martinique (1979)
Mexico

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Melissa Mijangos Boijseaneau (2009): First openly LGBT lawyer in Oaxaca, Mexico
Montserrat
Nicaragua
  • Olga Núñez Abaunza (1945): First female lawyer in Nicaragua
  • Catalina Rojas and Joaquina Vega:[152][153][154] First female judges in Nicaragua (1948-1949)
  • Becky McCray Jefferaine (2007):[155][156] First female lawyer of Rama descent in Nicaragua
  • Ana Julia Guido Ochoa:[157] First female appointed as the Attorney General of Nicaragua (2014)
Panama
  • Clara Gonzalez (1925)[158]: First female lawyer in Panama. She later became the first female Judge of the Juvenile Justice Court when it was created in 1951.[159]
  • Marisol Reyes de Vásquez (c. 1958):[160] First female justice appointed as President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Panama (1985)
  • Graciela Dixon:[160][161] First Black female justice appointed as the President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Panama (2005)
Puerto Rico
  • Herminia Tormes García (1917):[162][163][164][165] First female lawyer in Puerto Rico (upon her admission to the Federal Court for the District of Puerto Rico). In 1929, she became the first female judge in Puerto Rico.
  • Nilita Vientós Gaston (1926):[166] First female lawyer to work for the Department of Justice in Puerto Rico
  • Carmen Consuelo Cerezo (1969):[167] First Puerto Rican female appointed as a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (1980). She is the first female federal judge in Puerto Rico.
  • Aida Delgado-Colón (1980):[168] First female appointed as an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of Puerto Rico (1982). She later served as the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (2011).
  • Miriam Naveira:[169] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico (1985) and its Chief Justice (2003)
Saba
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  • Jade Reux (2017):[179] First female student lawyer sworn in the Superior Court of Appeal of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Sint Eustatius
Sint Maarten
Trinidad and Tobago
  • Gladys Eileen Ramsaran (1932):[184] First female lawyer in Trinidad and Tobago
  • Mona Rigsby James (1939):[185] First native-born female lawyer in Trinidad and Tobago
  • Jean A. Permanand (1962):[10][186][187] First female appointed as a Judge of the Appeal Court of Trinidad and Tobago (1993-2004).She was also the first female lawyer to become the Solicitor General in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1980s.
  • Occah Seepaul (1964):[186][188] First female appointed as the Master of the High Court in Trinidad and Tobago (1986-1993)
  • Wendy Punnett-Hope:[186] First female appointed as the Acting Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago (1970-1977). Brenda Paray-Durity later became the first permanent female Registrar.
  • Marie Elizabeth Bourne-Hollands:[186][188] First female judge in Trinidad and Tobago (upon her appointment as a Judge of the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago in 1972). She was also the first female lawyer in Barbados.
  • Kamla Persad-Bissessar (1985):[10] First female lawyer to become the Attorney General in Trinidad and Tobago (1995). She later became the first female Prime Minister in the country.
  • Morean Phillip:[189] First female appointed as the President of the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (1989)
  • Marcia Ayres-Caesar:[186][190] First female appointed as the Chief Magistrate at the Eighth Court in Port-of-Spain of Trinidad and Tobago (2010)
Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Shirley D. Simmons (1980):[191][192] First female (a Bermudian) admitted to the Turks and Caicos Islands Bar Association
  • Margaret Ramsay-Hale (1991):[133][134][135] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the Turks and Caicos Islands (2014). She is also known as being the first female lawyer in Jamaica to become a Queen's Counsel (QC) (1994)
  • Sarah Knight (1998):[193] First Turks and Caicos Islander female admitted to the Turks and Caicos Islands Bar Association. She later served as the association's president.
  • Rhondalee Braithwaite-Knowles:[194] First Turks and Caicos Islander female to become a Deputy Attorney General (2008) and Attorney General of the territory (2014)
  • Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson (1998): First female (a lawyer) Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands (2016)
United States[195]
United States Virgin Islands
  • Edith Bornn (1948):[196] First female lawyer in the United States Virgin Islands
  • Eileen Ramona Petersen:[10] First female judge in the United States Virgin Islands (1971)
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South America

Name Attorney Name (Year) / Historical Significance
Argentina
  • María Angélica Barreda (1909): First female lawyer in Argentina
  • Maria Luisa Anastasi de Walger:[1][2][3] First female judge in Argentina (1955)
  • Margarita Argúas (1925): First female appointed as the Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (1970)
  • Sirouhi Belorian (1949):[4] First female Armenian lawyer in Argentina
  • Carmen María Argibay (1964): First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court in Argentina (2005)
  • Nicole Gonzalez Beaumonte (2008):[5] First openly LGBT lawyer in Argentina
  • Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi:[6][7][8] First Argentinian female appointed as the President of the International Criminal Court (2015)
Bolivia
  • Esilda Villa (1929):[9] First female lawyer in Bolivia
  • María Josefa Saavedra:[10][11][12] First female appointed as the Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of Bolivia (1972)
  • Amalia Morales Rondo (1990):[13][14] First Cholita female (and woman in pollera) judge in Bolivia (2008)
  • María Cecilia Chacón (1998): First female (a lawyer) Defense Minister of Bolivia (2011)
  • Cristina Mamani Aguilar:[15][16] First indigenous female (and woman in pollera) elected as a Judge of the Bolivian Judicial Power and the Council of Magistrates in Bolivia (2011)
Brazil
  • Myrthes Gomes de Campos (1906):[17] First female lawyer in Brazil
  • Maria José Saraiva (1902):[18][19] First female lawyer at the Faculty of Laws of São Paulo (Brazil)
  • Thereza Grisólia Tang:[20][21][22] First female judge in Brazil (1954)
  • Mary de Aguiar Silva:[23][24] First female Black judge appointed in Brazil (1962)
  • Maria Rita Soares de Andrade:[25][26] First female appointed as a federal judge in Brazil (1967). She was also the first female lawyer in Bahia, Brazil and Sergipana, Brazil.
  • Ellen Gracie Northfleet (1971):[27] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Brazil (2000), as well as its President (2006)
  • Raquel Dodge (1986):[28] First female appointed as the Attorney General of Brazil (2017)
  • Joênia Wapixana (1997):[29][30] First indigenous female lawyer in Brazil. She was also the first female lawyer to argue a case before the Supreme Court of Brazil.

First(s) in a Particular Region (arranged by location)

  • Fernanda Kaingáng:[31] Reputed to be the first female lawyer in the South of Brazil
  • Nelma Torres Padilha:[32] First female judge in Alagoas, Brazil (1976)
  • Sulamir Palmeira Monassa de Almeida:[33] First female lawyer in Amapá, Brazil
  • Kadiwéu Carla Mayara Alcântara Cruz (2013):[34] First indigenous female lawyer in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
  • Helena Alves de Souza:[35] First female judge in Paraíba, Brazil
  • Esperança Garcia:[36] Given the symbolic title of the first female lawyer in Piauí, Brazil
Chile
  • Matilde Throup (1892): First female lawyer in Chile
  • Claudina Acuña Montenegro (1923):[37][38] First female judge in Chile (1925)
Colombia
  • Rosa Rojas Castro (1942):[39][40][41] First female lawyer in Columbia
  • Fabiola Aguirre:[39][40][42] First female magistrate in Columbia (1952)
  • Fanny González Franco (1958):[43][44] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court in Columbia (1984)
  • Luz Marina Bustos:[45] First female (a lawyer) to reach the rank of General in the National Police of Columbia (2009)
  • Viviane Morales Hoyos:[46][45] First female appointed as the Attorney General of the Nation of Columbia (2011-2012)
  • Ruth Marina Díaz Rueda:[45] First female justice appointed as President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Columbia (2013). She was also the first female magistrate of the Court of San Gil, Columbia (1993).

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Gabriela Pelaez (Echeverri) (1944):[41][47][48] First female lawyer to graduate from the National University of Colombia in Colombia
Ecuador
  • Obdulia Romelia Luna (1928):[49] First female lawyer in Ecuador
  • Fanny León Cordero:[50] First female judge in Ecuador (1947)
  • Mariana Yépez Andrade (1971):[51][52][53][54] First female appointed as a prosecutor (c. 1975) and Judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Quito (1975-1978) in Ecuador
  • María Paulina Aguirre:[55] First female judge to preside over the National Court of Justice in Ecuador (2018)

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Ruth Seni Pinoargote:[56] First female appointed as the President of the Superior Court of Justice of Portoviejo in Ecuador
Falkland Islands
  • Rosie McIlroy:[57] First woman lawyer (non-native) to enter into private law practice in the Falkland Islands. According to various sources, her legal career also included serving as Crown Solicitor (c. 1987),[58] Senior Magistrate (c. 1989),[59][60] and Chief Magistrate (c. 1989)[61][62] in the Falkland Islands.
  • Melanie Louise Best Chilton:[63][64][65] First woman lawyer (non-native) to serve as Law Commissioner and an Attorney General of the Falkland Islands (2006-2007).
  • Ros Cheek (United Kingdom, 1998):[65][66][67][68][69][70][71] First Falkland Islander female to become Principal Crown Counsel (2006). She later became the second female Law Commissioner in the Falkland Islands (2015).
French Guiana
  • Hélène Sirder (1978):[72] First female Guyanese lawyer in French Guiana
  • Constance Rézaire-Loupec (c. 1970):[73] First female magistrate in French Guiana (1978)
Guyana
  • Iris de Freitas Brazao (1929): Considered the first female lawyer in the Anglophone Caribbean, Brazao practiced law in Guyana when it was known as British Guiana
  • Ena Luckhoo:[74] First Indian female lawyer in Guyana
  • Désirée Bernard (1964):[75][76][77] First female judge in Guyana (upon her appointment as a Judge of the High Court of Guyana in 1980). She is also the first female appointed as a Justice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Guyana (1992), Chief Justice (1996), Chancellor of the Judiciary of Guyana and the Caribbean (2001) and Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice (2005).

First(s) in a particular region:

  • Gertel Thom:(1982):[78][79] First female lawyer in Essequibo, Essequibo County ("Cinderella County"), Guyana. She is also known as being the first female Attorney-General of Antigua and Barbuda and the first woman to sit in the Antigua and Barbuda Cabinet (2001).
Paraguay
  • Serafina Dávalos (1907): First female lawyer in Paraguay
  • Myriam Peña:[80][81][82] First female judge in Paraguay (1980)
  • Sandra Quiñónez:[83] First female appointed as the Attorney General of Paraguay (2018)
Peru
  • Trinidad María Enríquez (1878):[84][85][86] First Peruvian woman to earn a law degree. Enriquez was denied the ability to practice law and fought her case until her death in 1891.
  • Rosa Perez Liendo (1921):[87] First female lawyer in Peru
  • María Bockos Heredia de Grillo:[88] First female appointed as the Minister of Justice and Human Rights of Peru (1989). She was also the first female appointed as President of the Superior Court of Lima (1986).
  • Elcira Vásquez (1963):[89][90] First female appointed as the Supreme Vocal for the Supreme Court of Justice in Peru (1993)
  • Luz del Carmen Ibáñez:[91][92][93] First Peruvian (and female) elected as a Judge of the International Criminal Court (2017)
Suriname An unknown woman became the country's first female attorney in 1933.[94][95]
  • Cynthia Valstein-Montnor (c. 1973):[96] First female judge in Suriname (upon becoming a member of the Court of Justice in 1998)
  • Joyce van Genderen-Naar (1978):[97][98] First lawyer (and female) of Surinamese origin decorated by the Belgian government as a Knight in the Leopold Order (2018), as well as to register with the Brussels Bar (Belgium; c. 1990s)
Uruguay
Venezuela

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