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Her Name Is Judith
* Judith Kaplan Eisenstein
..... FIRST Jewish girl to have a Bat Mitzvah. She was the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist Movement, who performed her Bat Mitzvah in New York in 1922. She was also a musicologist, teacher and author of books about Jewish music and composed several cantatas with her husband, Rabbi Ira Eisenstein. She was 86 years old when she died
* Judith Gautier
born 1845 died 1917
..... FIRST woman to be an Academician in France
* Judith Hahn
..... FIRST woman to present a science programme on television - Tomorrow's World
* Judith Hart
Baroness Hart of South Lanark
born September 18th 1924 died 1991
..... FIRST woman Paymaster General in 1968
* Judith Hunt
..... FIRST woman chief executive with Ealing Council which employed 13,000 people
* Judith Jamison
born 1943
..... FIRST black woman, FIRST dancer and FIRST black artist to be elected to the Board of the National Endowment for the Arts. She studied at the Judimar School and in 1964 was given her first real chance in the role of Mary Seaton in The Four Mary's. The following year she joined the black troupe, The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and toured the United States of America and Europe
* Judith Keppel
..... in November 2000 she became the FIRST person to win the £1m jackpot on the television quiz show - Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. It was the 122nd episode of the hit show
* Judith Leyster
died 10th February 1660
..... FIRST woman admitted to the Haarlem Guild of St Luke - 1633 - Netherlands
* Judith Mayhew
..... FIRST woman chairman of the City of London
* Judith Murray
born 1751 died 1820
..... FIRST American to have a play produced at the Federal Street Theatre, Boston - The Medium. In 1779 she wrote an essay declaring that the sexes have equal minds and also demanded education for women. Her first published piece concerning women's education was "Desultory Thoughts Upon A Degree of Self-Complacency Especially in Female Bosoms" and it was published in 1784. In it she agreed with the ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft about education for women and also argued that all women should be equipped to make their own living
* Judith Oliver
..... FIRST person to champion the cause of carers when she set up the Association of Carers in 1981
* Judith Rose
..... FIRST woman rural dean in the Church of England when appointed at Gillingham, Kent where she will oversee the work of priests in eight parishes. In 1996 became the FIRST woman archdeacon when she was ordained at Rochester Cathedral
* Judith Arundell Wright
born May 31st 1915 died 2000
..... Australia's leading contemporary poet and crusader dedicated to righting the world's wrongs who was the FIRST Australian to receive the Queen's Medal for Poetry in 1932