* Susan Brownell Anthony

born 1820 died 1906

..... FIRST time that a likeness of a real American woman had appeared on a United States coin  when a new dollar coin was minted in 1979. A suffragette leader, she died at the age of 86 years, 14 years before her cause triumphed with the ratification of a constitutional amendment which gave women the vote

* Susan Batten

..... the FIRST full-time firewoman in Britain when she ended 13 weeks of training with the London Fire Brigade in 1982

* Susan Barnes

later Crosland

..... the FIRST important female interviewer in the British press

* Susan Elizabeth Blow

born 1843 died 1916

..... opened the FIRST public kindergarten in America. She was born in Missouri, was educated privately and in her late 20s travelled widely in Europe where she became interested in the pioneering methods of Froebel. In 1871 she returned to America and discussed with William Harris the possibility of creating infant schools within the public education system. In 1874 she established a training school and the movement gradually spread across the country. She retired in 1884, began to travel but became very depressed and in 1889 returned to Boston. Five years later her health revived and she wrote a series of works on Froebels teaching methods. From 1905-1909 she taught at the Teachers College, Columbia University

* Susan Brown

..... FIRST woman to take part in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race when she was rowing cox for Oxford on April 4th 1981

* Susan CaldwelI, Janet Evans and Jacqueline Prest

..... FIRST three female permanent airport hands at Manchester Airport (P/L)

* Susan Cooke

..... FIRST woman forester appointed by the Environment Department in 1979 when she beat 26 other applicants ( all men) to the job. She was an Oxford graduate in forestry and her job entailed looking after 2,500 acres of woodland with a team of up to seven men, landscaping and replanting trees near Tidworth in Wiltshire

* Susan Davies

..... in March 1994 she became the FIRST woman Deputy Chief Constable when made Deputy Commandant of the Police Staff College at Bramshill in Hantshire

* Susan Dev

..... FIRST woman Professor of Accounting in England when she was appointed by the London School of Economics in 1979

* Susan Devoy

born 1964

..... FIRST New Zealand woman to win the world squash championship

* Susan Emmott

..... in 1996 she became the FIRST Lady Mayor of Rochdale, England

* Susan Greenfield

..... in 1994 she was the FIRST woman to be invited to give the Royal Institution Christmas lectures which were televised by BBC 2 and on October 1st 1998 she became the FIRST female director of the Royal Institution, one of the most prestigious posts in British research. She was an eminent neuroscientist at Oxford University and hoped that her appointment would inspire other women scientists to " be more assertive and fight their corner more than before"

* Susan Hoggard

..... FIRST Western dancer admitted to the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad  when she joined it in September 1990 for a year

* Susan Hurley

..... FIRST woman Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford - 1980/81. An American she beat another woman and two men to the junior research fellowship in which she studied moral philosophy

* Susan Lawrence

..... on December 6th 1923 she became the FIRST woman Member of Parliament to be elected and take up her seat in her own right when she became Labour MP for East Ham North at the general election. In 1930 she became the FIRST female 'chairman' of the Labour Party

* Susan Mayoss-Hurd

..... FIRST female priest in the Church of England to give birth whilst in office when her daughter Anya Rachel was born in 1994

* Susan Newell

born 1893 died 1923

..... died October 10th 1923 when she became the FIRST woman to be hanged in Scotland for 50 years. She had been convicted of the murder of newsboy John Johnstone whom she had strangled in a fit of rage as she did not want to pay a few pennies for his newspapers

* Susan Polgar

..... the world's FIRST female chess grandmaster

* Susan Price

..... FIRST woman President of a Worcestershire trades council when elected by trade unions in Redditch in 1989. She was educated at the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education and lived in Cathays. She was a journalist working for a Birmingham news agency

* Susan Medora Salter

..... FIRST woman Mayor in America when elected Mayor of Argonia, Kansas on 4th April 1887. She was 27 years old and was elected by a 2/3rd majority. She had been nominated for office without being told and it was only when she arrived at the polling station that she discovered that she was one of the candidates

* Susan Seidelman

born 1952

..... FIRST independent US feature film to be accepted in the main competition at the Cannes Film festival was made by her - Smithereens 1982

* Susan Shaw

..... FIRST woman to set foot on the floor of the London Stock Exchange

* Susan Sollazzi

..... FIRST ever community development worker with the scouts in Manchester  when employed by Salford District Scouts to forge new links between the scout industry and the community

* Susan Smith McKenney Steward

...... FIRST African-American graduate of the NY Medical College for Women and the third African-American doctor

* Susan Thompson

..... FIRST woman professional pool player in Britain in 1992 after a five year battle to be granted professional status by the Professional Pool Players' Organisation. She had previously been rejected despite winning five open championships against male professionals and took the organisation to a tribunal

* Susan Armour Walker

born April 15th 1906 died 1993

..... leading force at Conservative Party Central office during the 1960s and FIRST vice-chairman of the organisation to have risen through the ranks and FIRST constituency agent to be given office - the equivalent of a civil servant becoming a Minister (Conservative party). After she retired she took an active role in the Women's Royal Voluntary Service, was appointed CBE in 1963 and DBE in 1972

* Susan Waltz

..... in 1996 she became the FIRST American chairman of Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organisation

* Susan Whiteside

..... FIRST Manchester woman to become a British Rail train driver. She had previously been a cleaner, successfully applied to become a guard and three years later applied to become a driver. The first major hurdle she had to cross was a BR aptitude test and to learn the ins-and-outs of the job she was sent on an eight-week course, the only woman among 13 men

* Susan Williams

..... FIRST woman in Wales to be made a Lord Lieutenant. In 1990 she was made an honorary Freeman of the Vale in recognition of her eminent services to the borough

* Susan Wilson

..... FIRST woman to join the RAF dog demonstration team when she was selected from more than 30 applicants

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