Frances Elizabeth Moran, (6 December 1893 – 7 October 1977) was an Irish barrister and legal scholar.
She was the first woman to become a law lecturer in Ireland and also to hold a chair at TCD when she was made Reid Professor.
[1] She matriculated into Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 1911 to study modern languages (French and English), and graduated in 1915.
[2][3] As such, she was the first woman to take silk in the British Isles, with the first King's Counsel in the United Kingdom (Margaret Kidd) not called until 1948.
[3] From 1925 to 1930, Moran was Reid Professor of Criminal Law at Trinity College, Dublin (TCD).