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" powerful men often succeed through the help of their wives

" powerful women only succeed in spite of their husbands"

Linda Lee-Potter

Her name is Linda

* Linda Bailey and Anne Smart and Karen Ford

..... FIRST all-women team of officials in Britain to handle a senior men's game in 1996 - Broomfield v Kent University. Linda Bailey was the referee with the other two girls as assistants

* Linda Bellos

..... FIRST black woman leader of a council when appointed at Lambeth, London in 1986

* Linda Bray

..... FIRST woman to lead American troops on a combat mission in 1990 when 600 women took part in President Bush's Operation Just Cause in Panama and when a vicious fire-fight developed Capt Bray crashed through a gate in a jeep, training a machine-gun on the enemy. Three Panamanians died in the encounter

* Linda Chatburn

..... FIRST woman editor with the Darwen Advertiser and News in England where she had an all female staff of reporters and advertising staff.  The managing director of the south Lancashire Newspaper group of which they are a part was also a woman

* Linda Douglas

..... FIRST black NEC member as the representative of the militant-dominated Labour party Young Socialists

* Linda Griffiths

..... FIRST successful civil action for rape brought by her after the Crown Prosecution Service refused to take action against her former boss, Arthur Williams, following a police investigation. She was awarded £50,000 damages in 1995

* Linda Haye

..... on February 11th 1993 she became the FIRST black member of the Police Complaints Commission

..... FIRST to win an Oscar for playing a member of the opposite sex when she took the part of a male Chinese photographer in the film The Year of Living Dangerously in 1983

* Linda Johansen

..... FIRST woman to command an entire corps of cadets at any of the four service academies in America when she became regimental commander of cadets at the U.S Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut in 1979

* Linda Kelley

..... American who was one of the FIRST relatives of a murder victim to view an execution by lethal injection in 1996, following a radical change in Texas law. Leo Jenkins had gunned down her two children, Kara and Mark, in 1988

* Linda Kitson

..... the FIRST female painter to take her sketch book to the front line when she was in the Falklands War

* Linda Lovelace

neé Boreman

born January 10th 1949 died 2002

..... star of the film Deep Throat in 1972, the pornographic film which challenged the American obscenity laws and became the FIRST of its kind to be shown in mainstream cinemas. She was touted as the ' first superstar of erotic entertainment' and although the film was banned in a number of states (and in Britain) she became something of a celebrity

* Linda McCartney

born September 24th 1941 died 1998

..... one of the FIRST women to take serious photographs of the rock world

* Linda McGill

  ..... in 1965 she became the FIRST Australian to swim the English Channel

* Linda Sharp

..... FIRST woman to be in charge of one of the 13 departments at London Zoo when she became head keeper of the children's section

* Linda Scott

..... Britain's FIRST Internet divorcée - November 2000

* Linda Whitehead

..... FIRST woman official in the game of football in Britain and the FIRST woman in the boardroom at Manchester United when she was invited by club secretary Ken Merrett after she had appeared on television bemoaning the fact that women were excluded from the boardrooms of most top British football clubs

* Linda Wray

..... Salford girl who was the FIRST "double transplant" patient to take part in the Transplant Games at Edinburgh in 1985

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