Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Law


 * See also Wikidata redlink list of women in law and List of first women lawyers and judges in Africa, Asia, Europe, South America

Bosnia and Herzegovina

 * Jasminka Džumhur, first female (a judge) to join the UN Working Group against Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (2010), and also a member of the 3-member International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

New Zealand

 * Rebecca Hamilton (lawyer), born in New Zealand/Aotearoa, specialises in criminal and international law including the law of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, cited in Claims of genocide of Ukrainians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Washington Post, American University profile

South America
See List of first women lawyers and judges in South America
 * Maria Luisa Anastasi de Walger
 * Sirouhi Belorian
 * María Florencia Budiño
 * Cristina Galván
 * Juana Clotilde Vaccaroni de Soria
 * Maria Severa Mohando Solimano de Farias
 * María Ángela Valente
 * Viviana Figueroa
 * Lorena Arroyo
 * Sandra Ragusa
 * Ana María Victoria de Borges
 * María Josefa Saavedra
 * Amalia Morales Rondo
 * Elena Lowenthal
 * Cristina Mamani Aguilar
 * Amalia Laura Villca
 * Elffy Albrecht Ibáñez
 * Maria Augusta Saraiva
 * Mary de Aguiar Silva
 * Lydia Dias Fernandes
 * Fides Angélica Ommati
 * Vercilene Francisco Dias
 * Maísa de Castro Sousa Barbosa
 * Kadiwéu Carla Mayara Alcântara Cruz
 * Terezinha Lavocat Galvão
 * Sulamir Palmeira Monassa de Almeida
 * Maria Aida Pinheiro
 * Nelma Torres Padilha
 * Maria do Socorro Chaves
 * Auri Moura Costa
 * Helena Alves de Souza
 * Magui Lins Azevedo
 * Esperança Garcia
 * Georgia Nunes
 * Wandecy Albanian Ferreira Veras
 * Fernanda Kaingáng
 * Genésia Minatto Brandão
 * Erica Ghedin Orlandin
 * Maria de Lourdes Bello Zimath
 * Sandra Krieger
 * Walkyria Moreira da Silva Kaled
 * Edni de Andrade Arruda
 * Maria Therezia Butzen Deboni
 * Odete Sinhorini Mattar
 * Ivone Ferreira Caetano
 * Lúcia Guimarães Léa Tavares
 * Maria José Saraiva
 * Maria Immaculada Xavier da Silveira
 * Shelto Lombardi de Kato
 * Claudina Acuña Montenegro
 * Mónica Maldonado Croquevielle
 * Fannie Leibovich Guberman
 * Raquel Camposano Echegaray
 * María Antonia Morales Villagrán
 * Berta Zapata Casas
 * Fabiola Aguirre
 * Belky Izquierdo
 * Clara Inés Vargas Hernández
 * María del Rosario González de Lemus
 * Ruth Marina Díaz Rueda
 * Aura Benilda Tegría Cristancho
 * Gabriela Pelaez
 * Mariana Yépez Andrade
 * Mariana Yumbay
 * Ruth Seni Pinoargote
 * Wendy Molina Andrade
 * Marien Segura Reascos
 * Beliza Coro
 * Carmen Bueno - redirect to article on Disappearance of Jorge Müller and Carmen Bueno
 * Mercedes Guamán
 * Jenny Del Rocío Ramón Cueva
 * Maricela Freire
 * Angélica Alexandra Ortiz Palma
 * Diana Leida Loor Toro
 * Melissa Orrala Yagual
 * Rosie McIlroy
 * Melanie Louise Best Chilton
 * Ros Cheek
 * Constance Rézaire-Loupec
 * Ena Luckhoo
 * Gertel Thom
 * Myriam Peña
 * Luciana Ferreira Barboza
 * Rosa Perez Liendo
 * Marcela Montenegro Cannon
 * Elcira Vásquez
 * Luz del Carmen Ibáñez
 * Delia Revoredo de Mur
 * Brígida Ramírez Garay
 * Rosa del Portal Verano de Castellanos
 * Angelica Bockos Heredia de Grillo
 * Rosalind Catriona Cheek
 * Alison Anne Mackenzie Inglis
 * Joyce van Genderen-Naar
 * Samantha Gadjradj
 * Maureen Nibte
 * Sara Fons de Genta
 * Luisa Amelia Perez Perozo
 * Panchita Soublette Saluzzo
 * Josefina Calcano de Temeltas
 * Carmen Alcalá de Árraga

to expand
 * Cristina Garros Martínez
 * Rosa Weber
 * Luz Bulnes Aldunate
 * Obdulia Luna

Ukraine

 * Kateryna Busol, Ukrainian lawyer and member of Chatham House, documents sexual violence in Russian-occupied Crimea and in 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine,

United Kingdom

 * Rehana Azib, London-based barrister, 2013, ,
 * Marjorie Powell, first woman admitted to Lincoln's Inn in January 1920. Not called to the bar, but went on to lecture in economics at Newnham College, Cambridge, becoming the college's director, and also taught at Birkbeck, University of London. Married to Harold Roper Robinson.
 * Mary Selina Share Jones, first woman admitted to Gray's Inn in January 1920. Never called to the bar.
 * Alexandra Wilson (barrister), barrister, author of In Black and White

United States

 * Sheila P. Burke, Secretary of the United States Senate, chief of staff for Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer, Smithsonian Institution, among dozens of other positions. ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
 * Lael Echo-Hawk, federal law,, interview
 * Joan P Gibbs General Counsel for the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College, CUNY
 * Latanya Mapp Frett—President and CEO of Global Fund for Women, past executive director of Planned Parenthood Global, lawyer who worked at United Nations Children's Fund and US AID.
 * Arsima A. Muller (2005) (First Marshallese female to be admitted to practice law in the United States)
 * Lisa Page (currently a redirect) former FBI lawyer caught up in controversy about text messages between herself and Peter Strzok critical of Donald Trump. Name redirects to Strzok article.


 * US state supreme courts
 * Add your red links here


 * Individual states
 * Elora Mukherjee, (Columbia law professor on immigrant rights),