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page 120th-century women judges
Eva Joly
French politician
Vasiliki Thanou
Greek judge, former caretaker Prime Minister of Greece
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot
president of Haiti
Margarita Robles
Spanish judge and politician (born 1956)
Manuela Carmena
Spanish judge and politician, mayor of Madrid
Sophia Akuffo
Ghanaian judge and politician
Clara González
Panamanian activist
Nora Astorga
Nicaraguan revolutionary (1944-1988)
Annie Ruth Jiagge
Ghanaian jurist and women's rights activist (1918-1996)
Carmen Lúcia
Brazilian judge (1954)
Elizabeth Odio Benito
Costa Rican politician and lawyer
Leila Zerrougui
Algerian legal expert
Georgina Theodora Wood
Ghanaian judge and Chief Justice
Margarita Mariscal de Gante
Spanish judge and politician
Ingrid Nargang
Austrian lawyer and contemporary historian (1929-2019)
Na Kyung-won
South Korean judge and politician
Cecilia Muñoz-Palma
Filipino judge
Yvonne Mokgoro
South African judge (1950–2024)
Natividad Almeda López
first female lawyer in the Philippines
Anita Ušacka
Latvian judge (born 1952)
Olga Sánchez Cordero
Secretary of Government of Mexico
Lee Tai-young
South Korean lawyer and judge (1914-1998)
Mabel Agyemang
Chief Justice of The Turks and Caicos Islands
Ellen Gracie
Brazilian judge
Sylvia Steiner
Brazilian judge
Gertrude Torkornoo
Ghanaian jurist and author
Ingrid Gärde Widemar
Swedish lawyer (1912-2009)
Thokozile Masipa
South African judge
Leonora van den Heever
South African judge
Joyce Aluoch
Kenyan judge
Catherine O’Regan
South African lawyer
María Romilda Servini de Cubría
Argentinian judge and lawyer
Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca
Argentine lawyer
Maria Berenice Dias
progressive Brazilian judge and the first woman to take the bench in her home state of Rio Grande do Sul
Nemat Abdullah Khair
Sudanese judge
María Emilia Casas Baamonde
Spanish jurist
Stella Thomas
Yoruba-Nigerian lawyer and magistrate
Patricia Acioli
Brazilian judge (1964-2011)
Raja Nicola
Sudanese lawyer and judge
Domitille Barancira
Burundian diplomat
Carmen Lamela Díaz
Spanish judge
Sonia Picado Sotela
Costa Rican politician, judge and university teacher
Jaclyn Tsai
Taiwanese politician
Conchita Carpio-Morales
Filipino judge
Luislinda Valois
Brazilian judge
Mariama Owusu
Ghanaian Supreme Court Judge
Rahila Hadea Cudjoe
Nigeria jurist
Effie Owuor
Kenyan lawyer and judge (born 1943)
Südaba Hasanova
Azerbaijani magistrate, first female President of the Supreme Court and Minister of Justice
Manassa Danioko
Malian lawyer
Avril Lovelace-Johnson
Ghanaian jurist
Margarita Argúas
Argentinian judge
Thérèse Striggner Scott
Ghanaian barrister, diplomat and judge (1932–2021)
Ombretta Fumagalli Carulli
Italian politician (1944-2021)
Concepción Espejel Jorquera
Spanish magistrate
Denise Frossard
Brazilian politician
Sigrid Stray
Norwegian lawyer (1893-1978)
María Zavala Valladares
Peruvian politician
Ľudmila Gajdošíková
Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak parliament, lawyer, constitutional judge and Slovak nation politician
Shoshana Netanyahu
Israeli judge (1923–2022)