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" If a woman wants to succeed in business she has to dress like a lady, talk like a man and work like a dog"
Ann Gloag ..... 1990 Veuve Cliquot's Business Woman of the Year
Her Name is Ann
* Ann Arscott
..... FIRST woman to represent the Cambridge University Stymies at golf in 1978
* Ann Bancroft and Liv Arneses
..... the FIRST women to ski unaided across Antarctica- 1986
* Ann Bilansky
nee Mary Ann Evards Wright
born 1820 died 23rd March 23rd 1860
..... American who was the FIRST and only woman to be hanged in Minnesota when she was executed for the murder of her husband Stanislaus after she fell in love with her handsome nephew John Walker. She dosed her husband's soup with arsenic and within a matter of days he was dead. John Walker was also arrested but was released for lack of evidence
* Ann Blaikie
….. English lady who established the FIRST Co-Workers group in Calcutta when she gathered together a group of women to make the clothes that were needed for the poor children in the care of Mother Teresa
* Ann Bostock
..... FIRST woman pilot with British Caledonian Airways in 1976. She obtained her private pilot's licence after graduating from Oxford and while she studied for her commercial pilot's licence she worked as a flying instructor and then an air-taxi pilot. It took her three months to train with British Caledonian to fly BAC-11s. She is a First officer and flew as co-pilot on scheduled and charter routes in Europe and North Africa
* Ann Bowtell
..... FIRST woman to help in the selection of top flight civil servants - 11th February 1993. She became the FIRST Civil Service commissioner and had previously worked in the departments of Health and Social Security
* Ann Clwyd
born March 21st 1937
..... FIRST woman to represent a South Wales valleys' seat
* Ann Coffey
..... FIRST ever woman MP for Stockport in Manchester - 1992
* Ann Gavin Daley
..... FIRST specialist breast nurse in the country (UK) who retired in 2007 after more than thirty years. She began her training as a registered general nurse in 1975 at Hope Hospital, Salford and worked there for twenty years. In 1994 she became the Director of Nursing and Quality at Oldham Hospital
* Ann Marie Daw
..... FIRST woman navigator with the RAF
* Ann Marian Ebsworth
born 19th May 1937 died 2001
..... FIRST barrister on Merseyside to be regularly instructed in family law by the Official Solicitor and the FIRST woman to become a High Court judge assigned to cases other than family law when appointed to the Queen's Bench Division in 1992. Her appointment made it four women on the High Court compared to 111 men
* Ann Evander
..... Swedish lady who was the FIRST ever non-British mayor when she took the chain of office at Harwich town council in Essex in 1999, three years after being elected as a councillor
* Ann Ferris
..... FIRST woman jockey to win the Irish Grand National which made her the FIRST woman rider to win a major steeplechase in Britain or Ireland - 1983/84
* Ann Smith Franklin
died April 1763
..... on August 22nd 1762 at Newport, Rhode Island, she was appointed editor of the Newport Mercury, the FIRST ever female editor and publisher of an American newspaper
* Ann Gittins
born June 30th 1940 died 1997
..... set up the Cader Vaulters Group which eventually became Britain's FIRST vaulting team. For many years the team was led by her daughter Louise and represented Britain in competitions in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands
* Ann Hays and Elizabeth Hoisington
...... the FIRST women generals in the US Army when appointed on May 15th 1970
* Ann Hayward
..... on 5th August 1940 she became the FIRST bride to be married during a parachute jump when she wed Arno Rudolphi of N.Y City while both of them were dangling from a parachute at the New York World's Fair
* Ann Jones
..... FIRST British woman to beat Margaret Court and Billie Jean King, the 1st and 2nd seeds, which she did in the same tournament in 1969 and became the second British post-war Wimbledon champion
* Ann Knight
..... issued the FIRST leaflet on women's suffrage in 1847. In 1851 she was involved in starting the Sheffield Association for Female Franchise which petitioned the House of Lord's for women's suffrage
* Ann Mallalieu
..... FIRST woman elected President of the Cambridge Union. She was a barrister and in 1981 took the Inland Revenue to court, in an unsuccessful bid to claim tax relief on her barrister's 'uniform'
* Ann Meyers
born in 1955
..... American who was the FIRST woman inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. She was one of the FIRST women to go to the University of California at Los Angeles. In 1976 she played in the FIRST Olympic women's basketball tournament
* Ann Owens
..... FIRST girl to be employed by Hyde Flooring Company which specialised in floor laying. She was 15 years old at the time and followed her two brothers into the business
* Ann Petry
born 1911
..... FIRST black woman writer to sell over 1m copies of a book
* Ann Preston
born 1813 died 1872
..... American who was the FIRST woman Dean of a Medical College when in 1866 she was appointed Dean at the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, a post she held until her death. She gained her MD at the same college in 1851 and in 1855 became Professor of Physiology there. Four years later the Pennsylvani8a Medical Society resolved not to recognise the school, the Civil War intervened and Ann became the college's champion. In 1861 she founded the Women's Hospital, Philadelphia and then five years later received her appointment as Dean. Among the 138 students who graduated under her were many medical missionaries and she saw the education of women in medicine as one of the necessities of society
* Ann Richards
..... FIRST woman nominated for Governor of Texas in 1990 since Miriam 'Ma' Ferguson in 1932
* Ann Robinson
..... FIRST woman and FIRST Briton to chair the industry section of the Economic and Social Committee of the European community - 1990. The Committee represents trade unions and consumers and channels their views on draft Community rules to he European Commission and the Council of Ministers. Dr Robinson is a former financial journalist and head of the policy unit at the Institute of directors and she hoped to get to grips with issues such as government subsidies to industry and the capital adequacy director on investment services
* Ann Savolainen
..... FIRST woman member of the American Nuclear Society
* Ann Shoosmith
..... FIRST female member of the British Tug Owners Association
* Ann Stansfield
born April 7th 1909
..... FIRST woman speaker at Elton, Bury roundtable . Mrs Stansfield was the founder of the National Association for the Relief of Paget's Disease. (P/L)
* Ann Marion Swanton
born July 2nd 1911 died 1998
..... pianist, golfer and painter who was one of the FIRST women to wear trousers on the links of St Andrew's golf course. This was in the days when a notice at proclaimed " Women are required to remove their trousers before entering the club house"
* Ann Taylor
born 1947
..... given the FIRST Cabinet-level portfolio dealing with the environment in 1990
* Ann Bethune Trason
born 1960
..... FIRST in the world in ultra-running to be sponsored in the races covering 100 miles/50miles/100km and 50km - 1994
….. English lady who in 1998 began her new role as the U.K's FIRST-ever specialist nurse for people who have suffered a brain haemorrhage when she began work at Hope Hospital, Salford. Her aim was to minimise the problems that people experienced following the traumatic condition. Her post at the hospital was funded by the brain and spinal charity BASIC, which was also based at Hope Hospital
* Ann Winterton
..... with her husband was the FIRST Conservative husband and wife team
* Ann Wood
..... FIRST woman Vice- President of Pan Am Airlines. In May 1942 she arrived in Liverpool, one of twenty-five American women to join the Air Transport Auxiliary and flew warplanes continuously until the end of 1945