List of first women lawyers and judges in South America

Argentina

• María Angélica Barreda : First female lawyer in Argentina
• Maria Luisa Anastasi de Walger: First female judge in Argentina
• Margarita Argúas : First female appointed as the Minister of the Supreme Court of Argentina
• María Romilda Servini: First female lawyer to work as a prosecutor in Argentina's criminal justice system. She later became the first judge to return two minors appropriated during the civil-military dictatorship.
• Stella Maris Martínez: First female to serve as the General Defender of the Nation of Argentina
• Elsa Kelly: First female judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
• Alejandra Gils Carbó: First female to serve as the Attorney General of Argentina
• Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi: First Argentinian female appointed as the President of the International Criminal Court

  In specific circumstances

• Elena Highton de Nolasco : First female to join the Supreme Court of Argentina during a democratic government
• Carmen María Argibay : First female appointed as a Minister of the Supreme Court of Argentina during a democratic government

  From specific ethnic groups

• Sirouhi Belorian : First female Armenian lawyer in Argentina
• Karina Miguel : First Gypsy female lawyer in Argentina
• Rosa Chiquichano : First female lawyer of Tehuelche origin in Argentina. She was also the first Mapuche female lawyer in the Chubut Province, Argentina.

  In a particular region in Argentina

• María Florencia Budiño: First female appointed as a Judge of the Criminal Cassation Court in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
• Cristina Galván: First female appointed as a District Judge in Florencio Varela
• Juana Clotilde Vaccaroni de Soria : First female lawyer, judge and minister in the Catamarca Province, Argentina
• Maria Severa Mohando Solimano de Farias: First female lawyer and President of the Superior Court of Justice in the Corrientes Province, Argentina
• María Ángela Valente: First female lawyer in the Jujuy Province, Argentina
• Viviana Figueroa : First indigenous female lawyer in Quebrada de Humahuaca
• Lorena Arroyo: First female appointed as the Judge of Faltas in the city of Dina Huapi
• Sandra Ragusa: First female appointed as a Judge of the Criminal Execution Court in the city of Bariloche
• Cristina Garros Martínez: First female appointed as a Judge of the Court of Justice of Salta
• Ana María Victoria de Borges: First female judge in Santiago del Estero

  Autonomous City of Buenos Aires

• Celia Tapias : First female lawyer in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

  Bolivia

• Esilda Villa : First female lawyer in Bolivia
• María Josefa Saavedra: First female appointed as a Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of Bolivia
• Elena Lowenthal: First female appointed as the Vocal for the Superior Court of Bolivia

  From a specific ethnic group

• Amalia Laura Villca : First Ayllu female lawyer in Bolivia.
• Amalia Morales Rondo : First Cholita female judge in Bolivia
• Cristina Mamani Aguilar: First indigenous female elected as a Judge of the Bolivian Judicial Power and the Council of Magistrates in Bolivia

  Firsts in a particular region in Bolivia

• Elffy Albrecht Ibáñez: First female lawyer in Santa de la Sierra, Bolivia

  Brazil

• Augusta Saraiva : First female to obtain a law degree in Brazil
• Myrthes Gomes de Campos : First female lawyer in Brazil
• Thereza Grisólia Tang and Ana Maria da Silveira: First female judges in Brazil
• Maria Rita Soares de Andrade: First female appointed as a federal judge in Brazil. She was also the first female lawyer in Bahia, Brazil and Sergipana, Brazil.
• Ellen Gracie Northfleet : First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Brazil, as well as its President
• Lydia Dias Fernandes: First female judge to serve as a President of a Court of Justice in Brazil
• Esther Figueiredo Ferraz: First female to chair the Brazilian Bar Association
• Raquel Dodge : First female appointed as the Prosecutor General of Brazil
• Fides Angélica Ommati: First female lawyer to preside over a section of the Brazilian Bar Association
• Joênia Wapixana : First indigenous female lawyer in Brazil. She was also the first female lawyer to argue a case before the Supreme Court of Brazil.
• Eliana Calmon: First female to serve as the Minister of the Superior Court of Justice of Brazil
• Grace Mendonça: First female appointed as the Attorney General of Brazil
• Rosa Weber : First female judge appointed as the President of the Supreme Electoral Court of Brazil

  Of a specific ethnic group

• Vercilene Francisco Dias : First Quilombola female lawyer in Brazil
• Mary de Aguiar Silva: First female Black judge appointed in Brazil

  Firsts in a particular region in Brazil

Central West Region

• Maísa de Castro Sousa Barbosa: First female appointed as the Attorney General of the State of Goiás
• Kadiwéu Carla Mayara Alcântara Cruz : First indigenous female lawyer in Mato Grosso do Sul

  North Region

• Terezinha Lavocat Galvão: First female attorney in the Public Prosecutor's Office of the State of Acre
• Sulamir Palmeira Monassa de Almeida: First female lawyer in Amapá

  Northeast Region

• Maria Aida Pinheiro: First female lawyer in Alagoas
• Nelma Torres Padilha: First female judge in Alagoas
• Maria do Socorro Chaves : First female lawyer in Caruaru
• Auri Moura Costa: First female judge of the Court of Justice of the State of Ceará. She was also the first female to serve as President of the Regional Electoral Tribunal of Ceará.
• Helena Alves de Souza: First female judge in Paraíba
• Magui Lins Azevedo: First female judge in the Pernambuco State
• Esperança Garcia: Given the symbolic title of the first female lawyer in Piauí
• Georgia Nunes: First female appointed as the Attorney General of Teresina
• Wandecy Albanian Ferreira Veras: First female lawyer in Rio Grande do Norte

  South Region

• Fernanda Kaingáng: Reputed to be the first female lawyer in South Region, Brazil
• Genésia Minatto Brandão : First female lawyer in Criciúma
• Erica Ghedin Orlandin: First female appointed as the Attorney General of Criciúma
• Maria de Lourdes Bello Zimath: First female lawyer in Joinville, Santa Catarina
• Maria Berenice Dias: First female judge in the Rio Grande do Sul State
• Sandra Krieger: First female prosecutor in Blumenau, Santa Catarina State
• Walkyria Moreira da Silva Kaled: First female lawyer in Paraná
• Edni de Andrade Arruda: First female lawyer to join the Federal Council of the Brazilian Bar Association in Paraná
• Maria Therezia Butzen Deboni: First female lawyer in Porto União and União da Vitória

  Southeast Region

• Odete Sinhorini Mattar: First female lawyer in Ribeirão Preto
• Lúcia Guimarães Léa Tavares: First female appointed as the Attorney General of Rio de Janeiro
• Maria José Saraiva: First female to be admitted to the Faculty of Laws of São Paulo
• Maria Immaculada Xavier da Silveira: First female lawyer admitted to the Order in São Paulo

  From a specific ethnic group

• Ivone Ferreira Caetano: First Black female appointed as a Judge and Tribunal of the Court of Justice of the State of Rio de Janeiro

  Western Region

• Shelto Lombardi de Kato: First female judge in Mato Grosso

  Chile

• Matilde Throup : First female lawyer in Chile
• Claudina Acuña Montenegro : First female judge in Chile
• Mónica Maldonado Croquevielle: First female to serve as the Judicial Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Chile
• Fannie Leibovich Guberman: First female to serve as a Minister of a Court of Appeals in Chile
• Luz Bulnes Aldunate: First female to serve as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Chile
• Raquel Camposano Echegaray: First female chosen by machine to serve as a Minister of the Supreme Court of Chile
• María Antonia Morales Villagrán: First female appointed as a Minister of the Supreme Court of Chile
• Marisol Peña: First female to serve as the President of the Constitutional Court of Chile
• Vianney Sierralta Aracena : First deaf lawyer in Chile

  Colombia

• Rosa Rojas Castro : First female lawyer and judge in Colombia
• Berta Zapata Casas : First female magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia. She is also the first female lawyer to graduate from the University of Antioquia and the first female President of the Superior Court of Medellín.
• Fabiola Aguirre: First female magistrate in Colombia
• :es:Fanny González Franco|Fanny González Franco : First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Colombia
• Belky Izquierdo : First indigenous female magistrate in Colombia
• Clara Inés Vargas Hernández: First female judge appointed as the President of the Constitutional Court of Colombia
• María del Rosario González de Lemus: First female appointed as the President of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia
• Viviane Morales Hoyos: First female appointed as the Attorney General of the Nation of Colombia
• Ruth Marina Díaz Rueda: First female justice appointed as President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia. She was also the first female magistrate of the Court of San Gil, Colombia.
• Aura Benilda Tegría Cristancho: First U'wa female lawyer in Colombia

  Firsts in a particular region in Colombia

• Esmeralda Arboleda: First female lawyer in southwestern Colombia
• Gabriela Pelaez : First female lawyer to graduate from the National University of Colombia

  Ecuador

• Obdulia Luna : First female lawyer in Ecuador
• Fanny León Cordero: First female judge in Ecuador
• Mariana Yépez Andrade : First female appointed as a prosecutor in Ecuador. She is also the first female to serve as a Judge of the Superior Court of Justice in Quito.
• Mariana Yumbay: First indigenous female judge in Ecuador
• Ruth Seni Pinoargote: First female to serve as the President of a Superior Court of Justice in Ecuador , as well as the first female Minister of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador
• Wendy Molina Andrade: First female judge to serve as the Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador
• Marien Segura Reascos: First Afro-Ecuadorian female appointed as a Minister of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador
• María Paulina Aguirre: First female judge to serve as President of the National Court of Justice of Ecuador
• Beliza Coro: First Puruhá female lawyer in Ecuador

  Firsts in a particular region in Ecuador

• Carmen Bueno: First female Justice of the Peace in Cuchil, Sigsig Canton
• Mercedes Guamán: First indigenous female in the Cañar Province, Ecuador
• Jenny Del Rocío Ramón Cueva: First female Justice of the Peace in the El Oro Province, Ecuador
• Maricela Freire: First female Justice of the Peace in Vacas Galindo of the Cotacachi Canton
• Angélica Alexandra Ortiz Palma: First female Justice of the Peace in the Los Ríos Province, Ecuador
• Diana Leida Loor Toro: First female Justice of the Peace in the Salango parish of the Puerto López Canton
• Isabel Robalino : First female lawyer in Quito, Ecuador
• Melissa Orrala Yagual: First female Justice of the Peace in the Santa Elena Province, Ecuador

  Falkland Islands (GBR)

• Rosie McIlroy: First woman lawyer to enter into private law practice in the Falkland Islands. According to various sources, her legal career also included serving as Crown Solicitor, Senior Magistrate, and Chief Magistrate in the Falkland Islands.
• Melanie Louise Best Chilton: First woman lawyer to serve as Law Commissioner and an Attorney General of the Falkland Islands.
• Ros Cheek : First Falkland Islander female to become Principal Crown Counsel. She later became the second female Law Commissioner in the Falkland Islands.

  French Guiana (FRA)

• :fr:Hélène Sirder|Hélène Sirder : First female Guyanese lawyer in French Guiana
• Constance Rézaire-Loupec : First female magistrate in French Guiana

  Guyana

• Iris de Freitas Brazao : Considered the first female lawyer in the Anglophone Caribbean, Brazao practiced law in Guyana when it was known as British Guiana
• Ena Luckhoo: First Indian female lawyer in Guyana
• Désirée Bernard : First female judge in Guyana. She is also the first female appointed as a Justice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Guyana, Chief Justice, Chancellor of the Judiciary of Guyana and the Caribbean and Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice.

  Firsts in a particular region in Guyana

• Gertel Thom:: First female lawyer in Essequibo . She is also known as being the first female Attorney-General of Antigua and Barbuda and the first woman to sit in the Antigua and Barbuda Cabinet.

  Paraguay

• Serafina Dávalos : First female lawyer in Paraguay
• Myriam Peña: First female judge in Paraguay
• Alicia Beatriz Pucheta de Correa: First female to serve as a Minister of the Supreme Court of Paraguay, as well as its President
• Sandra Quiñónez: First female appointed as the Attorney General of Paraguay
• Luciana Ferreira Barboza : First Chamacoco female lawyer in Paraguay

  Peru

• Trinidad María Enríquez : First Peruvian woman to earn a law degree. Enriquez was denied the ability to practice law and fought her case until her death in 1891.
• Rosa Perez Liendo : First female lawyer in Peru
• Marcela Montenegro Cannon : First female appointed as a Judge of Lands of Peru
• Elcira Vásquez : First female appointed as the Supreme Vocal for the Supreme Court of Justice of Peru
• Luz del Carmen Ibáñez: First Peruvian elected as a Judge of the International Criminal Court
• Delia Revoredo de Mur: First female appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Peru

  Firsts in a particular region in Peru

• Brígida Ramírez Garay: First female elected as a Judge of the Unlettered Peace Court in Colpa Baja
• Miguelina Aurora Acosta Cárdenas : First female lawyer to graduate from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Rosa del Portal Verano de Castellanos: First female appointed as a Judge of the Superior Court of Justice in Lima
• Angelica Bockos Heredia de Grillo: First female appointed as President of the Superior Court of Lima

  South Georgia and Sandwich Islands (GBR)

• Rosalind Catriona Cheek was appointed acting Attorney General on 28 March 2011, and on 21 November 2017 as Acting Attorney General again and also as Acting Coroner.
• Alison Anne Mackenzie Inglis was appointed Registrar General on 7 February 2012.
• Clare Faulds was appointed Senior Magistrate and hence also Coroner on 3 November 2014, also of the Falkland Islands and British Antarctic Territory

  Suriname

• :nl:Cynthia Valstein-Montnor|Cynthia Valstein-Montnor : First female judge in Suriname
• Joyce van Genderen-Naar : First lawyer of Surinamese origin decorated by the Belgian government as a Knight in the Leopold Order, as well as to register with the Brussels Bar
• Samantha Gadjradj: First female lawyer to serve as the Dean of the Suriname Bar Association

  Firsts in a particular region in Suriname

• Maureen Nibte: First female lawyer to open a law practice in the Commewijne District, Suriname

  Uruguay

• Clothilde Luisi : First female lawyer in Uruguay
• Sofía Álvarez Vignoli: First female elected as Senator in Uruguay
• Sara Fons de Genta : First female appointed as the Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of Uruguay during the Uruguayan Dictatorship
• Jacinta Balbela : First female appointed as the Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of Uruguay upon the return to democracy

  Venezuela

• Luisa Amelia Perez Perozo: First female lawyer in Venezuela
• Panchita Soublette Saluzzo: First female judge in Venezuela
• Josefina Calcano de Temeltas: First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Venezuela
• :es:Cecilia Sosa|Cecilia Sosa : First female appointed as the President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela
• Luisa Ortega Díaz: First female appointed as the Prosecutor General of Venezuela
• Indira Alfonzo Izaguirre: First female justice appointed as the Vice President of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice in Venezuela

  Firsts in a particular region in Venezuela

• Carmen Alcalá de Árraga: First female appointed as a Juvenile Judge and Juvenile Superior Judge of the Zulia State in Venezuela

• FRA = Administrative division of France
• GBR = British overseas territory of the United Kingdom