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.

Trial lawyer Dorothy Walker was the first female district attorney in Wisconsin.

Mabel Raimey was the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, attend Marquette University Law School, and practice law in Wisconsin.

Vel Phillips achieved many firsts, including first woman and first African American to be elected to the statewide office of secretary of state.

Lavinia Goodell was the first female lawyer admitted to the bar of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Carin Clauss was the first woman Solicitor in the U.S. Department of Labor.

Angie Brooks is best known as the first African woman to serve as president of the United Nations General Assembly.

Elizabeth Baird’s newspaper stories about the developing Green Bay area in the 1800s were among the earliest written accounts of life in Wisconsin.

Shirley S. Abrahamson was the first woman justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the first female chief justice in state history.