page_title: List of first women lawyers and judges in Europe
section_title: Denmark
hierarchical_section_title: List of first women lawyers and judges in Europe / Denmark
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the Danish lawyer and folk school administrator Nanna Kristensen-Randers (1864–1908)
context_page_description: This is a list of the first women lawyer and judge in Europe. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law. Also included are the first women in their country to achieve a certain distinction such as obtaining a law degree.
context_section_description: Nanna Kristensen-Randers (1887): First female to obtain a legal diploma in Denmark
  Henny Magnussen (1909): First female lawyer in Denmark
  Elisa Ussing (1909): First female temporarily appointed as a Judge in the Østre Landsret (One of the high courts of Denmark; 1933). She was officially appointed to the aforementioned court in 1939.
  Ragnhild Fabricius Gjellerup: First female judge in Denmark (1934)
  Ingeborg Hansen: First female lawyer to practice before the Supreme Court of Denmark (1943)
  Bodil Dybdal: First woman appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Denmark (1953)
  Helga Pedersen (1936): First female appointed as a Judge of the Strasbourg Human Rights Court (1971)
caption: Nanna Kristensen-Randers: First female to obtain a legal diploma in Denmark (1887)
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