Title: Roma the first
Description: "Here is Roma Flinders Mitchell, 1913-2000, a life spanning a century that transformed the position of women. She was the first woman chancellor of an Australian university, the first woman in Australia to be made a Queens Counsel and to be appointed a judge in a superior court and the first woman Governor of an Australian State. Roma Mitchells life is also a story about contradictions. A life-long and devout Catholic, her religion aligned her with Irish working-class Outsiders, yet she gained a position at the heart of the Protestant Establishment, in a world dominated by men."-- From the publisher.
Subjects: Biography, Governors, Women in public life, Women judges, Women lawyers
Places: Australia, South Australia
People: Roma Mitchell Dame (1913-)