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This is a list of the female lawyer to practice in each country, where that is known. The dates given in parentheses below are the dates the women graduated from law school.

Africa

  • Algeria: Blanche Azouley (1908)[1]
  1. ^ Law Notes. E. Thompson Company. 1909-01-01.
  • Angola: Maria de Carmo Medina (1948)[1]
  • Cameroon: Alice Nkom (1969)[2]
  • Egypt: Naima Ilyas al-Ayyubi (1933)[3]
  • Ghana: Annie Ruth Jiagge (1950)[4]
  • Liberia: Angie Elizabeth Brooks (1953)[5]
  • Malawi: Vera Chirwa (1959)[6]
  • Mauritania: Fatimata M’baye (c. 1985)[7]
  • Morocco: Helene Cazes Benatar (c. 1929)[8]
  • Namibia: Bene Gwanes[9]
  • Niger: Fati Lami Abubakar (c. 1975)[10]
  • Nigeria: Miss Stella Thomas (Mrs. Marke) (1929)[11]; Aloma Mariam Mukhtar (1967)[12] (First woman lawyer in Northern Nigeria); Hauwa Ibrahim (c. 1999)[13] (First Muslim woman lawyer in the Yamaltu District in the Gombe State, Nigeria)
  • Senegal: Mama Bassine Niang (1975)[14]
  • Seychelles: Danielle Rassool (c. 1970s)[15]
  • Sierra Leone: Frances Claudia Wright (1943)[16]
  • South Africa: Irene Antoinette Geffen (1923);[17] Desiree Finca (1967) [First Black woman lawyer][18]
  • Swaziland: Qinisile Mabuza (1978)[19]
  • Tunisia: Juliet Goldmann (1920)[20]
  • Uganda-: Princess Elizabeth Christobel Edith Bagaaya Akiiki of Toro (1965)
  • United Republic of Tanzania/Zanzibar: Julie Manning[21]
  • Zambia: Lombe P. Chibesakunda (1969)[22]

Asia

Australia and Oceania

  • Australia—Flos Greig[49] (First woman to practice law); Linda Lovett[50] (First Aboriginal female lawyer in Victoria); Sally Gearin[51] (First female member of the bar in the Northern Territory)
  • French Polynesia (France)—Denise Goupil (1961)[52]
  • Guam (USA)—Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson (c. 1979)[53] (First Chamorro woman lawyer to practice law)
  • New Zealand: Ethel Benjamin; Georgina TeHeuHeu[54] (First Maori woman lawyer)
  • Palau: Ernestine Rengiil[55] (First Palauan woman in Palua bar)
  • Papua New Guinea: Meg Taylor[56]

Europa

North America

  • Bahamas: Patricia Cole Cozzi[86]
  • Barbados: Norma E. Maynard-Marshall[87]
  • Belize: Hadie Goldson[88]; Zoila Ellis-Browne[89] (First Garifuna woman to become a lawyer in Belize)
  • Bermuda (UK): Dame Lois Marie Browne-Evans[90]
  • British Virgin Islands (UK): Dancia Penn[91]
  • Canada: Clara Brett Martin; Sandra Kunuk Inutiq[92] (First Inuk woman to work as a lawyer in Nunuvat); Olga Chumak[93] (First woman lawyer of Ukrainian descent to practice in Canada); Greta Grant[94] (First woman lawyer of Chinese ancestry in Canada); Stella Panarites[95] (First woman lawyer of Greek ancestry in Canada); Mabel French[96] (First woman called to the bar in British Columbia)
  • Cayman Islands (UK): Adrianne Webb[97]
  • Costa Rica Ángela Acuña Braun
  • Dominica: Mary Eugenia Charles[98]
  • El Salvador: Alma Paredes Delgado[99]
  • Guadeloupe (France)—Gerty Archimede[100]
  • Guatemala: Graciela Quan[101]
  • Haiti—Ertha Pascal-Troillot[102]
  • Jamaica—Lily Tai Ten Quee[103]
  • Mexico: María Asunción Sandoval de Zarco (1898)[104]
  • Montserrat (UK): Elizabeth Constance Griffin[105]
  • Nicaragua: Olga Núñez Abaunza
  • Panama: Clara Gonzalez[106]
  • Saint Lucia: Beryl Lydia Edwards[107]
  • United States: Arabella Mansfield

South America

See also

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