Maria Angélica Barreda | |
Birth Date: | 15 May 1887 |
Nationality: | Argentine |
María Angélica Barreda (15 May 1887 – 21 July 1963) became in 1910 the first woman admitted to practice law in Argentina.[1] She graduated from the National University of La Plata, receiving her degree on 28 December 1909.[2] [3]
in 2023, at the University of Buenos Aires, commemorative plaques were erected to remember two significant female lawyers in Argentina: Dr. María Angélica Barreda, the first woman lawyer in Argentina, graduated from the UNLP, and Dr. Celia Tapias, the first woman lawyer to graduate from the UBA.[4]