1. Edna Payne
Shown in the photograph taken in 1916, she was the first female recruiting sergeant for the Navy and Marine corps.
2. Leola N. King
Shown here in a photograph published in 1918, Leola N. King was the first woman traffic cop in the United States. She wore a six-shooter on her side.
3. Hazel Bess Laugenour
Hazel Bess Laugenour was the first woman to swim across The Golden Gate Strait in 1911.
4. Ada L. Cardell
Ada L. Cardell, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was the first woman to be hired as an internal revenue collector.
5. Georgia Bullock
The first female attorney in the state of California to defend a man charged with murder was Georgia Bullock in 1914.
6. Loretta Walsh
Loretta Walsh was the Navy’s first female recruit in 1917.
7. Alberta Claire
The first woman to travel across the North American continent on horseback, 1912.
8. Lolla Haynes
Lolla Haynes was the first woman to operate a jitney (taxi bus) in Toledo, Ohio in 1915.
9. Helen Richey
Miss Helen Richey was the first woman copilot for a mail and passenger line in 1935.
10. Clara A. Jess
Clara Alice Jess was the first woman to be elected as judge in the United States, 1912.
