The five women to be honored with Margaret Brent Awards at the ABA Annual Meeting on August 4, 2024, include a federal judge, a legal scholar, a BigLaw partner, a former chief legal and operating officer of a media company, and a retired public interest lawyer. The awards are named for Margaret Brent, who was not only the first woman lawyer and trial lawyer in colonial America., but the first, in 1648, to “stand for the rights of her sex.”