Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Law

WiR redlist index: Law

Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR). Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our scope is women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues, broadly construed.

This list of red links is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles on the English Wikipedia. Please note however that the red links on this list may well not be suitable as the basis for an article. All new articles must satisfy Wikipedia's notability criteria with reliable independent sources.

This is a list under development of missing articles on women who are (or have been) notable for their activism, writing, art, political work and other areas advocating for the 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^[1]

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#Allegations of insufficient evidence of genocide, Washington Post, American University profile

South America

See List of first women lawyers and judges in South America

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Ukraine

Kateryna Busol, Ukrainian lawyer and member of Chatham House, documents sexual violence in Russian-occupied Crimea and in 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, [1]

United Kingdom

Rehana Azib, London-based barrister, 2013, [2], [3]
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. [4]
Mary Selina Share Jones, first woman admitted to Gray's Inn in January 1920. Never called to the bar. [5]
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. [6]; [7]; [8]; [9]; [10]; [11]; [12]; [13]; [14]; [15]; [16]
Lael Echo-Hawk, federal law, [17], 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.^[2]
Arsima A. Muller (2005)^[3] (First Marshallese female to be admitted to practice law in the United States)
Lisa Page (currently a redirect)^[4] former FBI lawyer caught up in controversy about text messages between herself and Peter Strzok critical of Donald Trump. Name redirects to Strzok article.