Eva Andén

Eva Johanna Andén (23 April 1886 – 26 March 1970) was a Swedish lawyer.

In 1907, she became a law student at the University of Uppsala, where she was the only female member of her class, and graduated in 1912.

In 1912–1913, she toured Sweden and gave legal lectures on behalf of the National Association for Women's Suffrage (Sweden); in 1913–1914 she was employed as a notary at the legal court of Falun, and in 1914–1915, she practiced law in the firm of Johan Tjerneld, secretary of the Swedish Bar Association.

The second woman lawyer in Sweden, Mathilda Staël von Holstein, practiced in her firm in 1919–1923.

[3] She often contributed articles in the press, regarding the law and women's rights in issues of marriage, inheritance, abortion and prostitution.

A portrait of Eva Johanna Andén