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The late Natividad Almeda-Lopez, known as the “dean of women judges” and one of the country’s foremost feminists, was born in Manila on Sept. 8, 1892. She made history as the first female lawyer to publicly defend a woman in court. The first woman justice of the Court of Appeals, she was also an active leader in the women’s suffrage movement. Lopez died on Jan. 23, 1977. Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research