List of first women lawyers and judges in Europe

• Nelly Eshba:[1] First female lawyer in Abkhazia
• Liudmila Khojashvili (b. 1957):[2][3] First female to serve as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Abkhazia (2016)

• Erifili Bezhani (1952):[4][5] First female lawyer in Albania
• Natasha Sheshi:[6][7][8] First female to serve as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Albania (1992)
• Ina Rama (b. 1972):[9][10] First female to serve as the Prosecutor General of Albania (2007-2012)
• Shpresa Beçaj:[11][12] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Albania (2008-2013)

• Sonia Artal Conesa (2013):[13] First female lawyer of Spanish nationality to practice in Andorra
• Laurence Burgogue-Larsen:[14][15] First female appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Andorra (2012)

• Alvina Gyulumyan (b. 1956):[16][17] First female appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Armenia (1996) and Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Armenia (2003)
• Eva Darbinyan:[18][19] First female appointed as a Judge of the Criminal and Military Appeal Court in Armenia (c. 1999)
• Elizaveta Danielyan:[20][21] First female to serve as a Judge of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation of Armenia (2009)
• Ani Mkhitaryan and Ruzanna Hakobyan:[22] First females appointed to the Supreme Judicial Council of Armenia (2018)

• Narine Narimanyan:[24][25][26][27][28] First female to serve as the President of the Supreme Court of Nagorno-Karabakh (2012)

Marianne Beth: First female lawyer in Austria (1922)

• Marianne Beth (1889-1984) (1922):[29] First female lawyer in Austria
• Johanna Kundmann and Gertrude Sollinger:[30][31][32] First female judges in Austria (1947)
• Margarete Haimberger-Tanzer (1916-1987):[33] First female to serve as a criminal judge in Austria (1950)
• Lisbeth Lass:[34] First female appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Austria (1994)
• Irmgard Griss (b. 1946):[35] First female judge to serve as the President of the Supreme Court of Austria (2007-2011)
• Brigitte Bierlein (b. 1949):[36][37] First female judge to serve as the President of the Constitutional Court of Austria (2018). She was also the first female to serve as an Advocate General in the General Procuratorate at the Supreme Court (1990). First female Chancellor of Austria.

• Bilqeyis Haşımzadə (c. 1940s):[40][41][42] First female lawyer in Azerbaijan
• Ayna Sultanova (1895-1938):[43][44] First female to serve as the Prosecutor General of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1933–1934)
• Sona Salmanova:[45][46][47] First female appointed as a Judge (1998) and Deputy Chairman (2005) of the Constitutional Court of Azerbaijan
• Südaba Hasanova (b. 1947) (1971):[48][49] First female appointed as the Chairperson of the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan (2000–2005)

• Olga Filippovna Sukhanova:[50][51] First female to serve as the Chairperson of the Supreme Court of the BSSR (1936)
• Isabella Martsinovich:[52] First female to earn a Doctor of Laws (1969) and become a law professor (1971) in Belarus
• Lilia Vlasova and Natalia Kozyrenko:[53][54][55] First female lawyers to establish a private law practice in post-Soviet Belarus (1990)
• Rimma Ivanovna Filipchik, Podgrusha Valentina Vasilyevna, and Kenik (Khoma) Ksenia Ivanovna:[56] First females to serve as Judges of the Constitutional Court of Belarus (1994)

Marie Popelin: First female to earn a doctorate in law in Belgium (1888)

• Marie Popelin (1888):[57] First female to earn a doctorate in law in Belgium, but denied the right to practice as a lawyer
• Paule Lemy and Marcelle Renson (1922):[58][59][60][61] The first women who respectively took the oath of lawyer in Belgium
• Geneviève Janssen-Pevtschin (1937):[62][63][64] First female judge in Belgium (upon her appointment as a Judge of the Brussels Court of First Instance in 1948)
• Irène Pétry:[65][66] First female to serve as a Judge (1984) and President (1991) of the Court of Arbitration of Belgium (Francophone Group) (renamed as the Constitutional Court of Belgium in 2007])
• Anne Thily:[67][68] First female appointed as an Attorney General for a Belgian Court of Appeal (upon her appointment to the Liège Court of Appeal in 1996)
• Beatrijs Deconinck:[69] First female justice to serve as the First President of the Court of Cassation of Belgium (2019)

• Mira Gavrilovich:[75][76][77] First female lawyer and judge in Bosnia and Herzegovina when the country was part of Yugoslavia
• Azra Omeragić:[78][79][80] First female to serve as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the post-Dayton period (1998)
• Gordana Tadic:[81] First female to serve as the Chief State Prosecutor of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2019)

• Vera Zlatareva (1945):[84] First female lawyer in Bulgaria
• Neviana Hristova:[85][86] First female lawyer to become a prosecutor in Bulgaria (1953)
• Milena Zhabinska:[87] First female to serve as a Judge of Constitutional Court of the Republic of Bulgaria (1991-1994)
• Yordanka Hadzhineva:[88] First female to serve as a member of the Supreme Judicial Council of Bulgaria (1991)
• Snezhana Botusharova:[89] First female elected in respect of Bulgaria to serve as a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights (1998-2008)
• Tsanka Tsankova:[90][91] First female to serve temporarily as the Chairperson of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Bulgaria (2012-2013)

• Mara Ilić (1929):[103] First female lawyer in Croatia
• Miroslava Vekić and Erika Kocijančić:[104][105][106] First females to serve as Judges of the Supreme Court of Croatia upon the court's creation in 1990
• Emilija Rajić (1973) and Jasna Omejec (1985):[107][108] First females to serve as Judges of the Constitutional Court of Croatia (1999). Omejec later became the first female to serve as the Constitutional Court's President (2008-2016).
• Aleksandra Bogdan:[109] First female lawyer to head the State Attorney's Office of the Republic of Croatia

• Stella Soulioti (1951):[111][112] First female lawyer in Cyprus
• Gönül Başaran Erönen (1975):[113] First female Judge of the District Court of Cyprus (1980)
• Efi Papadopoulou (1970):[114] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Cyprus (2004)

• Matylda Mocová-Wíchová (1918):[116][117] First female lawyer in the Czech Republic
• Anny Maass (1938)[118] is identified as the first woman lawyer, but was stripped of her right to practice law due to her Jewish background.
• Zdeňka Patschová:[119] First female judge in the 1930s when the country was a part of Czechoslovakia
• Viera Strážnická:[120] First female to serve as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (1991-1992)
• Iva Brozova, Eva Zarembová, and Ivana Janů:[121][122][123] First females appointed as Judges of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic respectively (1993). Janů was the first female to serve as the Vice President of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic.[124]
• Kateřina Hornochová:[125][126][127] First female to serve as a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic when the court was restructured in 1993
• Eliška Wagnerová:[128] First female to serve as the President of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic (1998-2002)
• Michaela Bejčková, Miluše Došková, Lenka Kaniová, Lenka Matyášová, Milada Tomková, Eliška Cihlářová, Brigita Chrastilová, Dagmar Nygrínová, Marie Souckova, Marie Turkova, Ludmila Valentová and Marie Žišková:[129][130] First females to serve as Judges of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic (2003)

Nanna Kristensen-Randers: First female to obtain a legal diploma in Denmark (1887)

• Nanna Kristensen-Randers (1887):[131] First female to obtain a legal diploma in Denmark
• Henny Magnussen (1909):[132][133] First female lawyer in Denmark
• Elisa Ussing (1909):[134] First female temporarily appointed as a Judge in the Østre Landsret (One of the high courts of Denmark; 1933). She was officially appointed to the aforementioned court in 1939.
• Ragnhild Fabricius Gjellerup:[135][136] First female judge in Denmark (1934)
• Ingeborg Hansen:[137] First female lawyer to practice before the Supreme Court of Denmark (1943)
• Bodil Dybdal:[138][139][140] First woman appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Denmark (1953)
• Helga Pedersen (1936):[141][142] First female appointed as a Judge of the Strasbourg Human Rights Court (1971)

• Ilse Zimmermann (1922):[146] First female to graduate with a law degree in Estonia (1922)
• Margot Viirmann-Kanemägi:[147] First female member of the Estonian Bar Association (1924), though she was not officially registered as a lawyer until 1932
• Auguste Susi-Tannebaum and Olli Olesk:[147] First females to apply for judicial positions, but were ultimately rejected (1924-1929)
• Hilda Reimann and Marta Kurfeldt (1930):[147][148] First female lawyers in Estonia
• Lyubov Hütsi:[147] First female to serve in a judicial capacity in Estonia (1936) [upon being elected as the Chairman of the Tartu Orphans' Court]
• Leida Puusepp and Miralda Tooma:[147][148][149][150] First females appointed to the judiciary in Estonia (1940-1941)
• Nadežda Tihanova-Veimer and Hilda Põder:[147] First females to serve as Judges of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR (1941)
• Lea Kivi and Triinu Vernik:[151] First females appointed as Judges of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Estonia (1993)

• Agnes Lundell (1911):[152] First female lawyer in Finland
• Katri Hakkila:[153][154] First female judge in Finland (c. 1930s)
• Lemmikki "Pet" Kekomäki (1927):[155] First female appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland (1958)
• Maarit Saarni-Rytkölä (1943):[156][157] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Finland (1949)
• Ritva Hyöky (1944):[157] First female appointed as a President of a Court of Appeal in Finland (upon her appointment to the Vaasa Court of Appeal in 1975)
• Inkeri Anttila (1946):[157][158] First female law professor in Finland (upon her appointment as Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Helsinki in 1961)
• Pauliine Koskelo (1979):[159] First female justice appointed as the President of the Supreme Court of Finland (2005)
• Raija Toiviainen:[160] First female to serve as the Deputy Prosecutor General (2016-2018) and Prosecutor General (2018- ) of Finland
• Tuula Linna:[161][162] First female to serve as President of the Finnish Bar Association (2019)

Jeanne Chauvin: First female lawyer to plead a case before the French court (1900)

• Victorie de Villirouët:[163][164][165] First female to act as an attorney in court during the French Revolution
• Sarmiza Bilcescu (1887):[166] First female to graduate with a law degree in France
• Olga Petit and Jeanne Chauvin (1900):[167][168][169] First female lawyers in France. Chauvin would be the first female lawyer to actually plead a case before the French court.[170]
• Maria Vérone (1906):[171][172] First female lawyer to plead before a French assize court (1908)
• Mme. Valat:[172][173] First female lawyer to plead a case before a French military court (1913)
• Paule Godinot:[174][175][176] First female to serve as a Commissioner-in-waiting in France (1928)
• Marguerite Haller and Charlotte Béquignon-Lagarde:[177][178][179][180][181][182] First female judges in France (1946). Béquignon-Lagarde and Haller later became the first females to serve as President of the Conflict Court and preside over a French assize court respectively in France (1962 and 1964).[172][180]
• Jacqueline Bauchet and Louise Cadoux:[183] First females to serve as members of the Council of State (France) (1953)
• Simone Veil:[184] First female to serve as the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Magistracy (1970)
• Marcelle Pipien:[172] First female to serve as the President of an Administrative Court in France (1973)
• Marie-Thérèse Goutmann:[172][185] First female to sit on the High Court of Justice of France (1974)
• Martine Luc-Thaler (1976):[172] First female lawyer in the State Council and the Court of Cassation of France
• Suzanne Challe:[172] First female to serve as the President of a Court of Appeal in France (1978)
• Simone Rozès (1945):[186] First female justice appointed as the President of the Court of Cassation of France (1984-1988)
• Noëlle Lenoir:[187] First female appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Council of France (1992)
• Sarah Tournier:[188] First female appointed as a Judge of the Commercial Court of France (2018)

• Nino Kipiani:[219] First female lawyer in Georgia
• Lamara Chorgolashvili:[220][221][222] First female appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Georgia (1996)
• Eka Tkeshelashvili (1997):[223] First female appointed as the Prosecutor General (or Attorney General) of Georgia (2008)
• Nino Gvenetadze:[224][225] First female appointed as the Chairperson of the Supreme Court of Georgia (2015)

Anita Augsburg: First female to earn a law degree in Germany (1897)

• Anita Augsburg (1897):[227] First woman to earn her Doctor of Law in 1897 in Germany, though she was not allowed to practice law until after the law changed in 1922.
• Maria Otto (1922):[228] First female lawyer in Germany
• Maria Hagemeyer (1924):[229][230][231][232][233][234][235][236] First female judge in Germany (1927-1928) after having served as an Assessor in Prussia
• Erna Scheffler (1925):[237] First female to serve as a Judge of the German Federal Constitutional Court (1951)
• Gisela Niemeyer (c. 1950s):[238][239] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Finances in the German Federal Republic (1973) and Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court (1977)
• Jutta Limbach (c. 1962):[240] First female appointed as the President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (1994-2002)
• Monika Harms (c. 1970s):[241] First female appointed as the Attorney General of Germany (2006-2011)
• Edith Kindermann (1992):[242] First female lawyer to serve as the President of the German Bar Association (2019)

• Pamela Benady (1955):[258][259][260] First female barrister (who was of Jewish descent) in Gibraltar
• Dorothy Ellicott:[261] First female Justice of the Peace in Gibraltar (1970)
• Karen Ramagge Prescott (1988):[262][263][264][265] First female judge (a Gibraltarian) in Gibraltar (upon her appointment as a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Gibraltar in 2010). She later became the first female Bencher of the Middle Temple (2017).
• Gillian Guzman (1994):[266] First female Queen's Counsel (QC) in Gibraltar (2012)
• Janet Smith (1972):[267][268] First female appointed as a Judge of the Gibraltar Court of Appeal (2017)

• Efharis Petridou (1925):[269] First female lawyer in Greece
• Anna Athanasiadou:[270] First female judge in Greece (1959)
• Rena Asimakopoulou (1969):[270][271] First female justice to serve as President of the Supreme Court of Greece (2011)
• Efterpi Kutzamani:[270] First female appointed as the Attorney of the Supreme Court of Greece (2013)
• Catherine Sakellaropoulou:[272] First female to serve as the President of the Council of State (Supreme Administrative Court) of Greece (2018)
• Catherine Sakellaropoulou:[273] First female to serve as the President of the Hellenic republic (2020).

• Ilonka Hajnal:[276] First female to study law in Hungary (1913)
• Margit Ungár (1928):[277][278][279][280][281] First female lawyer in Hungary Budapest, Central Hungary
• Tersztyánszky Ödönné Vasadi Éva:[282][283] First female appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Hungary (1999)

• Auður Auðuns (1935):[284] First female lawyer in Iceland
• Rannveig Þorsteinsdóttir:[285] First female to practice law before the Supreme Court of Iceland (1959)
• Auður Þorbergsdóttir:[286] First female judge in Iceland (1963)
• Guðrún Erlendsdóttir:[287][288][289] First female appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Iceland (c. 1986) and its President (c. 1991)

• Frances Kyle and Averil Deverell (1921):[290][291][292] First female barristers admitted to the Irish Bar [Ireland]
• Mary Dorothea Heron and Helena Early (1923):[293][294] First female solicitors in Ireland
• Frances Moran (1924):[295][296][297] First female to take silk and become a senior counsel in Ireland (1941)
• Lady Arnott, Lady Redmond, Lady Dockrell, and Miss Palles: First women appointed as Justices of the Peace in Ireland (1920)
• Eileen Kennedy (1947):[298][299][300] First female judge in Ireland (1964)
• Susan Denham (1971):[301] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland (1992) and serve and its Chief Justice (2011-2017)
• Mella Carroll (1976; Northern Ireland Bar):[302] First female appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Ireland (1980)
• Catherine McGuinness (1977):[303] First female appointed as a Judge of the Circuit Court of Ireland (1994)
• Katherine Delahunt-O’Byrnes (1979):[304] First female solicitor appointed as a Judge of the Circuit Court of Ireland (2001)
• Máire Whelan (1985) First female appointed as Attorney General (2011)
• Sinead Kane (2009):[305][306] First blind female solicitor in Ireland

• Clare Faulds (1973):[309][310] First female admitted to the Manx Bar in the Isle of Man (Crown dependency). She was later appointed as a Senior Magistrate for the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (2004–2008, 2014–2016).[311][312]
• Sharon Roberts:[313] First female to serve as the President of the Isle of Man Law Society (2007)
• Jayne Hughes:[313][314] First female Deputy High Bailiff of the Isle of Man (2011) Became High Bailiff in 2019.

• Giustina Rocca:[315][316] First female to act as a lawyer in an Italian court (1500)
• Lidia Poët (1883):[317] First female lawyer in Italy
• Teresa Labriola:[318][319][320][321] First female lawyer in Italy to practice law
• Letizia De Martino, Ada Lepore, Maria Gabriella Luccioli, Graziana Calcagno Pini, Raffaella D’Antonio, Annunziata Izzo, Giulia De Marco and Emilia Capelli:[322][323][324] First female judges in Italy (1965).[325] Luccioli later became the first female President of the Chamber of Cassation of Italy (2008).[326]
• Fernanda Contri:[327][328] First female to be appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy (1996) and serve as its Vice-President (2005)
• Natasha Shehu:[329] First Albanian (female) lawyer in Italy (c. 1999)
• Lucia Serena Rossi:[330] First Italian female to serve as a Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union (2017)

• Nekibe Kelmendi (1974):[340][341] First female (of Albanian descent) lawyer in Kosovo
• Hadije Maloku-Begolli :[342][343] First female judge in Kosovo (1974-1979)
• Bademe Siqani Sllamnikut:[344] First female prosecutor in Kosovo
• Gjyljeta Mushkolaj, Iliriana Islami, and Snezhana Botusharova:[345][346] First females elected as Judges of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo (2009)
• Arta Rama-Hajrizi:[347] First female to serve as the President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo (2015)

• Otīlija Ķempele:[348] First female lawyer in Latvia
• Rozālija Purgale (1932):[349] First female judge in Latvia (1933)
• Anita Ušacka, Ilmu Cepani, and Ilze Skultans:[350] First females appointed as Judges of the Constitutional Court of Latvia (1996)

• Gertrud Beck (1956):[351][352] First female lawyer in Liechtenstein
• Brigette Feger and Hilda Korner:[353][354][355] First females to serve as Judges of the Constitutional Court of the Principality of Liechtenstein (1985)

• Liuda Vienožinskaitė-Purėnienė (1917):[356] First female lawyer in Lithuania
• Elena Jackevičaitė:[357] First female judge in Lithuania (1924)
• Teodora Staugaitienė:[358][359] First female to serve as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania (1993)

• Marguerite Welter (1923):[360][361] First female admitted to the Luxembourg Bar, though she ultimately did not practice law
• Netty Probst (1927):[362][363][364] First female lawyer to actually practice law in Luxembourg. She was also the first female to serve as the Bâtonnière of the Luxembourg Bar Association (1954-1956).
• Jeanne Rouff:[365] First female prosecutor in Luxembourg
• Simone Rozès:[366][367] First French (female) magistrate seconded to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg
• Martine Solovieff:[368][369] First female appointed as the State Attorney General of Luxembourg (2015)

• Joanna Digiorgio (1949):[373] First female lawyer in Malta
• Ena Cremona (1959):[374][375][376][377] First Maltese judge (and female) to serve on the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg upon the country's accession to the European Union in 2004
• Lorraine Schembri Orland:[378][379] First female elected to Chambers of Advocates of Malta (1986) and Judge of the European Court of Human Rights (2019)
• Abigail Lofaro and Anna Felice:[380][381] First female judges in Malta (2006)

• Eugenia Cruşevan (1918): First female lawyer in Moldova
• Elena Safaleru:[382][383] First female to serve as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Moldova (2001)
• Alina Ianucenco:[384] First female (a lawyer and former judge) ombudsman for the Moldovan People's Advocate Office

• Laurence Aureglia (1959):[385] First female lawyer in Monaco
• Monique François:[386][387] First Monegasque female magistrate appointed as the First President of the Court of Appeal of the Principality of Monaco (c. 2012)

An unknown woman became the first female judge in Montenegro in 1954. She had served in the Basic Court.[388]

• Ksenija Raičević:[389][390] First female appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Montenegro
• Emilija Durutović:[391] First female to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Montenegro
• Vesna Medenica:[389][390][392] First female appointed as a state prosecutor in Montenegro, as well as the first female President of the Supreme Court of Montenegro (c. 2016)

Elisabeth van Dorp: First female to earn a law degree in the Netherlands, but she did not practice as an attorney (1899)

• Elisabeth van Dorp (1899):[393] First female to earn a law degree in the Netherlands, but she did not practice as an attorney
• Adolphine Kok (1903):[394] First female lawyer in the Netherlands
• Johanna Clementina Hudig (1934):[395] First female judge in the Netherlands (1947)
• A.A.L. "Guusje" Minkenhof (c. 1940s):[396][397] First female advocate general (1966) and first female counselor (1967) at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands
• Dien Korvinus (1964):[398][399][400] First female appointed as the Attorney General of the Netherlands (1970-1999)
• Winnie Sorgdragor:[401] First female chief prosecutor of any court in the Netherlands (1994)
• Els Unger:[402] First female to serve as the Dean of the Dutch Bar Association [Nederlandse orde van advocaten] (2005)

• Gordana Dimitrovska Hristovska Takesz (1983):[408][409][410] First female lawyer in North Macedonia [specifically in Bitola, Pelagonia Region, North Macedonia]
• Branka Ciriviri-Antonovska:[411] First female to serve as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of North Macedonia (1984)
• Margarita Caca Nikolovska:[412] First Macedonian (female) to serve as a Judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (1998)
• Liljana Ingilizova-Ristova:[411] First female to serve as the President of the Constitutional Court of North Macedonia (2003)
• Lidija Nedelkova:[413] First female appointed as the President of the Supreme Court of North Macedonia (2012)

• Shefika Hassan Hilmi Durduran (c. 1970s):[416] First Turkish Cypriot woman to have registered to practice law in Northern Cyprus
• Gönül Başaran Erönen (1975):[113] First female appointed as a Justice of the Northern Cyprus Supreme Court (1994)

• Maren Cathrine Dahl (1890):[393][417] First female in Norway to earn a law degree, but did not practice as an attorney
• Elise Sem (1904):[394] First female lawyer in Norway
• Ruth Sörenson:[418][419][420][421][422][423] First female judge in Norway (1913)
• Lilly Bǿlviken (1942):[424] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway (1968)
• Ellen Holager Andenǽs:[425] First female lawyer to become a state prosecutor (1983)
• Toril Marie Ǿie (1986):[426] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway (2016)

• Helena Wiewiórska (1925):[429] First female lawyer in Poland
• Wanda Grabińska (1925):[430] First female judge in Poland (1929)
• Natalia Gajl:[431] First female elected as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Poland (1985)
• Małgorzata Gersdorf[432][433][434] First female to serve as the First President of the Supreme Court of Poland (2014)
• Julia Przyłębska:[435] First female to serve as the President of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland (2016)

• Regina Quintelitza (1913):[437] First female lawyer in Portugal
• Cândida Almeida:[438][439][440] First female magistrate in Portugal (c. 1971)
• Ruth Garcês (1954):[441][442][443] First female judge in Portugal (1977)
• Joana Marques Vidal (c. 1978):[444] First female appointed as the Attorney General of Portugal (2012)
• Maria da Assunção Esteves (c. 1989):[445] First female judge in the Portuguese Constitutional Council (1989-1998), as well as the first female President of the Assembly of the Republic (2011)
• Isabel Marques da Silva:[446] First female appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Administrative Court in Portugal (2009)
• Maria Lúcia Amaral:[447] First female to serve as the Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of Portugal (2012) and Ombudsman for Portugal (2017)
• Maria dos Prazeres Beleza:[448][449] First female justice to serve as the Vice-President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Portugal (2018)

• Sarmiza Bilcescu (1891):[453] First female to register with the Romanian Bar, but did not practice as an attorney [Romania]
• Ella Negruzzi (1913):[84] First female lawyer in Romania to practice law
• Veronica Zosin Gorgos:[454][455] First female (who was of Jewish descent) prosecutor (1944) and magistrate in Romania
• Yolanda Eminescu (1943), Sanda Rosetti, and Steliana Popescu:[456] First female judges in Romania (1945)
• Carmen Thea Kahane:[457] First female military prosecutor of Romania
• Aspazia Cojocaru:[458] First female appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Romania (2004)
• Laura Codruța Kövesi:[459] First female Attorney General of Romania (2006-2012)
• Lidia Bărbulescu:[460] First female judge to serve as the President of the High Court of Cassation and Justice of Romania (2009)
• Simina Avram:[461][462] First female military magistrate in Romania (2011)

Anna Evreinova: First female to earn a law degree in Russia (1873)

• Anna Evreinova (1873):[463] First woman in Russia to earn a doctorate in law (awarded in Germany by Leipzig University)
• Elizaveta Fedoseevna "E.F." Kozmina:[464][465] First female to practice law in Russia (c. 1871). Despite passing a required exam by 1875, her legal practice ended when the Minister of Justice forbade women to act as attorneys in 1876.
• Katarina Abramovna Fleyshyts (1909):[466] First certified female lawyer in the Russian Empire
• Mukhlisa Bubi:[467][468] First female Muslim judge (qadi) in the Russian Empire (1917)
• Tamara Georgievna Morshchakova:[469][470][471] First female to serve as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (1991)

• Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini:[482] First female to serve as a Captain Regent of the Republic of San Marino (1980) [whose duties include presiding over the republic's judiciary body Council of XII (Consiglio dei XII)]
• Maria Selva:[483][484] First female lawyer to become the President of the Order of Lawyers and Notaries in San Marino (Ordine degli Avvocati e Notai della Repubblica di San Marino; 2012)

• Marija Milutinović Punktatorka (c. 1847):[485] First female lawyer in Serbia
• Leposava Karamarković:[486] First female to serve as President of the Supreme Court of Cassation of the Republic of Serbia (2001-2002)
• Bosa Nenadić:[487] First female to serve as the President of the Constitutional Court of Serbia (2007–2010)
• Nata Mesarović (1974):[488] First female elected as the President of the Supreme Court of Cassation of the Republic of Serbia (2009)

• Louise Pappova (1925):[491] First female candidate inscribed into the list of advocates in Slovakia[492]
• Alžbeta Cziglerová Wildmann (1931):[491][493][494] First female lawyer in Slovakia[495]
• Zdeňka Patschová:[496] First female judge in the 1930s when the country was a part of Czechoslovakia
• Daniela Švecová:[497][498] First female to serve as the Vice President (2005) and President of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic (2014)
• Ivetta Macejková:[499] First female to serve as the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Slovakia (2007)

• Zora Tominšek (1929) and Zdenka Brejc-Perne (1937):[500][501][502][503] First female lawyers in Slovenia respectively
• Francka Strmole Hlastec:[504][505] First female to serve as the President of the Supreme Court of Slovenia following independence (1991-1993)[506]
• Miroslava Geč-Korošec (1966):[507] First female appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia (1998)
• Dragica Wedam Lukić:[508] First female to serve as the President of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia (2001)
• Mirjam Škrk:[508][509] First female to serve as the Vice President of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia (2004)
• Zdenka Cerar (c. 1966):[510] First female appointed as the Attorney General of Slovenia (2004)

• Carmen López Bonilla (1921):[511][512][513] First female to earn a law degree in Spain
• María Ascensión Olivella Marín (1921):[514][515] First female registered in a bar association and to actually practice law in Spain
• Maria Lluïsa Algarra Coma:[516][517][518][519] First female judge in Spain (1936)
• Elvira Fernández Almoguera Casas:[520][521] First female prosecutor in Spain (1937)[522]
• Julia Álvarez Resano:[520][521] First female magistrate in Spain (1938)
• María Luisa Suárez Roldán (1941):[523] First female labor lawyer in Spain
• Josefina Triguero Agudo:[520][524] First female appointed as a Judge of First Instance and Instruction after passing the examination (1977)
• Gloria Begué:[525] First female appointed as a magistrate (1980) and the Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of Spain (1986-1989)[526]
• Milagros Calvo:[527][528] First female magistrate of the Supreme Court of Spain (Fourth Chamber; 2002)
• María Emilia Casas:[529] First female to serve as the President of the Constitutional Court of Spain (2004)
• Ángela Murillo:[530][531] First female to serve as a magistrate of the Criminal Chamber of the National Court of Spain and its President (2008)
• Consuelo Madrigal (1980):[532] First female appointed as the Attorney General of Spain (2015-2016)
• Clara Martinez de Careaga (1981):[533] First female appointed as a magistrate of the Military Chamber of the Supreme Court of Spain (2009)
• María Elósegui:[534] First female from Spain appointed as a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France (2018)
• Sara Giménez:[535] First Gypsy female lawyer to represent Spain before the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) (2018)

• Monica Hansen Nylund: First female judge to serve as the Chief Judge of the Hålogaland Court of Appeal (2017) [jurisdiction includes the island territories Svalbard and Jan Mayen]

• Elsa Eschelsson (1897):[563] First female in Sweden to earn a doctorate in law. She committed suicide when she could not find employment.[564]
• Anna Pettersson:[565] First female (an autodidact) in Sweden to open her own law agency and practice as a legal agent (1904)
• Eva Andén and Mathilda Staël von Holstein (1918):[564] First two female lawyers in Sweden
• Anna Bugge-Wicksell (Candidacy of Law, 1911):[566] First female (a Norwegian-born lawyer) "member of the League of Nations' permanent mandate commission" (1921)
• Birgit Spångberg:[567] First female judge in Sweden (1927)
• Ingrid Gärde Widemar (1948):[568] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Sweden (1968-1977)
• Hedvig Anna-Lisa Vinberg:[569] First female to serve as a Supreme Court Counsel in Sweden (1953)
• Anne Ramberg (1976): First female lawyer to serve as the Secretary General for the Swedish Bar Association (Sveriges advokatsamfund) beginning in 2000
• Petra Lundh:[570][571] First female to serve as the National Prosecutor (Prosecutor's Office) of Sweden (2018)

• Emilie Kempin-Spyri (1887):[564] First female to graduate with a law degree in Switzerland, but denied the ability to practice as an attorney
• Anna Mackenroth (1898):[573] First female lawyer in Switzerland and Zurich, Switzerland
• Ita Maria Eisenring:[574][575][576] First female prosecutor (1959) and Swiss cantonal judge (1979) in Switzerland
• Margrith Bigler-Eggenberger (1961):[577][578] First female substitute judge (1972) and Judge of the Federal Court of Switzerland (1974)
• Anne Colliard:[579][580] First female appointed as the Attorney General of Switzerland (c. 1990–2010)
• Salome Zimmermann:[581] First female secret service judge in Switzerland (c. 2017)

• Ivanova Olga Dmitrievna and Valentina Nikolaevna Chebotar:[586][587] First females to serve as the Chairperson and Deputy of the Supreme Court of the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika (PMR) respectively (1992)

• Suat Hilmi Berk (Graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law in the early 1920s):[588][589] First female judge in Turkey (1925)
• Süreyya Ağaoğlu (1927):[588] First female lawyer in Turkey
• Nezahet Güreli and Beyhan Hanım:[590][591][592] First females appointed as Judges of the Court of First Instance of Turkey (1930)
• Melahat Ruacan:[593][594] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals (Court of Cassation) of Turkey (1945)
• Firdevs Menteşe:[595] First female appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of Turkey (c. 1969)
• Füruzan İkincioğulları:[596] First female to serve as the President of the Council of State of Turkey (1994-1998)
• Fahrünisa Etmen:[597][598][599] First female appointed as a Judge of the Court of Auditors of Turkey
• Aysel Çelikel:[600][601] First female to become a Dean in a Faculty of Law in Turkey
• Tülay Tuğcu:[602] First female judge to become President of the Constitutional Court of Turkey (2005-2007)
• Şebnem Günaydın:[603][604] First female to serve as the Secretary General of the Supreme Court of Turkey (2015)

See the entry for Russia for the first female lawyer

• Tamara Ivanovna Prysiazhniuk:[608] First female to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ukraine (1988)
• Lyudmila Fedorovna Malinnikova and Lyudmila Pantelievna Chubar:[609] First females appointed as Judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (1996)
• Suzanne Romanovna Stanik:[610] First female to serve as a Deputy Chairperson of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (2006)
• Anna Yudkovskaya:[611] First Ukrainian female to serve as a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights (2010)
• Valentyna Danishevska (1983):[612][613] First female justice to serve as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ukraine (2017)
• Natalia Shaptala:[614] First female to serve as the President of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (2019)
• Iryna Venediktova:[615] First female to serve as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine (2020)

• Letitia Alice Walkington:[619] First female to graduate with a degree of Bachelor of Laws in Great Britain or Ireland (1889) [United Kingdom]
• Madge Easton Anderson (1920):[620][621] First female solicitor in the United Kingdom (upon being admitted to practice law in Scotland)
• Ada Summers:[622] First female to officially become a Justice of the Peace (magistrate) in the United Kingdom (England; 1920)
• Helena Normanton (1922):[621][623] First female barrister in the United Kingdom (upon being called to the Bar of England and Wales). She and Rose Heilbron became the first female Queen's Counsels in 1949.
• Linda Dobbs (1981):[624][625] First Black female to serve as a Judge of the High Court in the United Kingdom (2004)
• Brenda Marjorie Hale (1969):[95][626] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2009) and serve as its President (2017). She was also the first female to become a Law Lord in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2004).
• Bobbie Cheema-Grubb:[627] First Asian female to serve as a Judge of the High Court in the United Kingdom (2015)

• Silvia Monica Correale:[680] First female lawyer in Vatican City
• Maria Voce:[681] First female lawyer in Holy See

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• CYP = Partially recognized state in Cyprus
• DNK = Constituent country of Denmark
• FIN = Autonomous administrative division of Finland
• GBR = British overseas territory of the United Kingdom
• GEO = Unitary semi-presidential republic in Georgia
• MDA = Territorial unit and de facto independent state of Moldova
• NOR = Unincorporated area of Norway
• SRB = Partially recognized state in Serbia

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