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.

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