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.
Australia and Oceania
American Samoa: Rose L. Hoffer
Australia: Flos Greig (First woman to practice law); Linda Lovett (First Aboriginal female lawyer in Victoria); Sally Gearin (First female member of the bar in the Northern Territory)
French Polynesia (France): Denise Goupil (1961)
Guam (USA): Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson (c. 1979) (First Chamorro woman lawyer to practice law)
Marshall Islands: Rosalie Konou (1983)
Micronesia: Beuleen Carl; Janet Haley Weeks (First appointed to the Guam bar)
New Zealand: Ethel Benjamin; Georgina TeHeuHeu (First Maori woman lawyer)
Palau: Ernestine Rengiil (First Palauan woman in Palua bar)
Papua New Guinea: Meg Taylor
Tonga: Ana Kata Nau
Vanuatu: Heather Lini-Leo Matas (First indigenous female lawyer)
Austria: Marianne Beth (1922)
Belarus: Isabella Martsinovich (First female Doctor of Laws in Belarus)
Belgium: Marie Popelin (First woman to practice law, but denied the ability to do so)
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Dr. Mira Gavrilovich
Bulgaria: Vera Zlatareva (1945)
Croatia: Ingrid Anticevic Marinovic (1984) (First woman lawyer to practice in Zadar)
Cyprus: Stella Cacoyannis-Soulioti (1951)
Czech Republic: Anny Maas (1938)
Denmark: Dr. Henny Petersen
Estonia: E. Zimmermann (1922)
Finland: Agnes Lundell (1911)
France: Olga Petit (1900); Sarmisa Bilcesco (First woman to graduate with a law degree)
Georgia: Nino Kipiani
Germany: Anita Augsburg (1922)
Greece: Efharis Petridou
Hungary: Ilonka Hajnal
Iceland: is:Auður Auðuns (1935)
Ireland: Mary Dorothea Heron (1923); Celia Otubu (2012) (First Black woman called to the Irish Bar)
Italy: Lidia Poët
Kosovo: Nekibe Kelmendi (1974) (First Albanian woman defense lawyer in Kosovo)
Latvia: In 1931, an unknown female attorney was sworn in.
Lithuania: Liuda Vienožinskaitė-Purėnienė (1917)
Luxembourg: Marguerite Welter (1923)
Malta: Joanna Digiorgio (1949)
Moldova: ro:Eugenia Cruşevan
Netherlands: Adolphine Kok; Elisabeth van Dorp (First woman to earn a degree, but did not practice)
Norway: Elise Sem; Marie Katrine Doll (First woman to earn a law degree, but did not practice)
Poland: Helena Wiewiorska
Portugal: Regina Quintelitza
Romania: Ella Negruzzi; Sarmisa Bilcesco (First woman to register with the Romanian bar but did not practice)
Russia: Anna Evreinova
Scotland: Margaret Kidd, First woman admitted to the Scottish bar
Serbia: Marija Milutinović-Punktatorka
Slovakia: In 1931, an unknown woman became the country's first female attorney.
Spain: Victoria Kent
Sweden: Eva Andén and Mathilda Stael von Holstein (First two Swedish women to practice law); Elsa Eschelsson (First Swedish woman to earn a doctorate in law, but committed suicide when she could not find employment)
Switzerland: Emilie Kempin-Spyri (First woman to graduate with a law degree, but denied the ability to practice law)
United Kingdom: Carrie Morrison, first female English solicitor; Ivy Williams, first female called to the English bar; Helena Normanton, first female barrister; Brikena Muharremi (2003) (First Albanian woman to qualify at the UK bar)
Vatican City (Holy See): Silvia Monica Correale; Holy See: Maria Voce
Antigua and Barbuda: E. Ann Henry
Bahamas: Patricia Cole Cozzi
Barbados: Norma E. Maynard-Marshall
Belize: Hadie Goldson; Zoila Ellis-Browne (First Garifuna woman to become a lawyer in Belize)
Bermuda (UK): Lois Browne-Evans
British Virgin Islands (UK): Dancia Penn
Canada: Clara Brett Martin; Sandra Kunuk Inutiq (First Inuk woman to work as a lawyer in Nunuvat); Olga Chumak (First woman lawyer of Ukrainian descent to practice in Canada); Greta Grant (First woman lawyer of Chinese ancestry in Canada); Stella Panarites (First woman lawyer of Greek ancestry in Canada); Mabel French (First woman called to the bar in British Columbia); Frances Fish (First woman lawyer in Nova Scotia); Violet King Henry (1954) (First female Black lawyer)
Cayman Islands (UK): Adrianne Webb
Costa Rica: Ángela Acuña Braun
Cuba: Rosa Anders (Among the first female attorneys in Cuba)
Dominica: Mary Eugenia Charles
Dominican Republic: Minerva Argentina Mirabal (First woman accepted into law school, but denied the right to practice law despite earning her diploma)
El Salvador: Alma Paredes Delgado
Greenland (Denmark): Agnete Weis Bentzon (First female lawyer to perform a legal expedition in Greenland)
Guadeloupe (France): Gerty Archimede
Guatemala: Graciela Quan
Haiti: Ertha Pascal-Trouillot
Honduras: Alba Alonso de Quesada
Jamaica: Lily Tai Ten Quee
Kiribati: Pole Atanraoi Awerika (Bole Atanraoi)
Mexico: María Asunción Sandoval de Zarco (1898)
Montserrat (UK): Elizabeth Constance Griffin
Northern Mariana Islands (USA): Ramona Manglona
Nicaragua: Olga Núñez Abaunza
Panama: Clara Gonzalez
Puerto Rico (US): Nilita Vientós Gaston
Saint Lucia: Beryl Lydia Edwards
Trinidad and Tobago: Gladys Eileen Ramsaran (1932) (First woman admitted to the bar); Mona Rigsby James (1939) (First native-born female barrister)
United States: Arabella Mansfield
United States Virgin Islands (US): Edith Bornn (First woman attorney to open a law practice in St. Thomas)
Argentina: María Angélica Barreda (1909)
Bolivia: Elsa Paredes de Salazar
Brazil: Myrthes Gomes de Campos (1898)
Chile: Matilde Throup
Colombia: Gabriela Pelaez (Echeverri) (1936)
Ecuador: Obdulia Romelia Luna (1928)
Guyana: Helen Sirdir (1978) (First Guyanese woman lawyer); Ena Luckhoo (First female lawyer of Indian descent in Guyana)
Paraguay: Serafina Dávalos
Peru: Rosa Perez Liendo (1921)
Suriname: In 1933, an unknown woman became the country's first female attorney.
Uruguay: Clothilde Luisi
Venezuela: Luisa Amelia Perez Perozo
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