Belle Case La Follette
Belle Case La Follette was the first woman to graduate from law school in Wisconsin and an outspoken advocate for women's right to vote.
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Gloria Ladson-Billings is an influential professor of education who has worked to make education more equitable for students of color.
Helen Connor Laird
Community leader Helen Connor Laird was the inspiration for the Laird Endowment Fund for the Arts in central Wisconsin.
Angela Lang
Angela Lang is a community organizer in Milwaukee and the founder and executive director of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities.
April Ulring Larson
Elected by the La Crosse Area Synod in 1992, Rev. April Ulring Larson became the first female Lutheran bishop in North America and the second in the world.
Peg Lautenschlager
Peg Lautenschlager was the first female district attorney for Winnebago County, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, and the first female Attorney General of Wisconsin.
Barbara Lawton
Barbara Lawton, forty-third lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, was the first woman to be elected to that position.
Estella Leopold
Estella Leopold was a paleobotanist and conservationist who conducted ground-breaking research on fossilized pollen.
Gerda Lerner
University of Wisconsin scholar Gerda Lerner founded the academic field of women's history.
Patricia “Patty” Loew
Patricia "Patty" Loew is a celebrated journalist, filmmaker, and educator about Native Americans in Wisconsin.
Katharine Lyall
Katharine Lyall was the first woman president of the University of Wisconsin System.