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Anna St. John
Anna St. John (Anna Elizabeth Wagner St. John, born 1979) is a U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana since 2026, confirmed 51-45, formerly president of the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, and a 2026 Fifth Circuit nominee.
Annastacia Palaszczuk
Annastacia Palaszczuk, AC, Australian Labor politician, 39th Premier of Queensland 2015-2023 and Member for Inala from 2006. First woman to win three consecutive Queensland elections; resigned December 2023, succeeded by Steven Miles.
Anne C. Conway
Anne C. Conway is an American jurist, a senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1991.
Anne E. Lopez
Anne E. Lopez is an American Democratic politician and attorney serving as Attorney General of Hawaii, previously chief operating officer and general counsel of Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.
Anne E. Thompson
Anne Elise Thompson, born 1934, is an American jurist and senior US district judge for the District of New Jersey, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1979.
Anne Ferguson (judge)
Anne Ferguson, Australian judge, twelfth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria (2017-2025), first solicitor and second woman in the role; wrote the Pell appeal majority, led pandemic court digitization and the sexual harassment review.
Anne Hwang
Anne Hwang (born 1975) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2024, after serving on the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Anne M. Nardacci
Anne Marie Nardacci, born 1977 in Albany, New York, is a US district judge for the Northern District of New York, appointed by President Biden in 2022.
Anne Mactavish
Anne L. Mactavish is a Canadian judge, first Chairperson of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (1998), Federal Court judge (2003), and Federal Court of Appeal judge (2019), known for Afghan detainee and First Nations child welfare rulings.
Anne R. Traum
Anne R. Traum, born 1969, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Nevada since 2022, appointed by President Biden.
Anne-Leigh G. Moe
Anne-Leigh G. Moe, full name Anne-Leigh Gaylord Moe, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida since 2025, after serving on Florida state courts.
Annemarie C. Axon
Annemarie Carney Axon, born 1973, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Alabama since 2018, nominated by President Trump.
Annexation of Junagadh
Annexation of Junagadh: 1947-48 takeover of the Kathiawar princely state whose Muslim Nawab acceded to Pakistan; India intervened, held a February 1948 plebiscite (190,779 to 91 for India), and Junagadh joined the Indian Union.
Annie Chapman
Annie Chapman (Eliza Ann Smith, c. 1840/1841-1888), second canonical Jack the Ripper victim, killed 8 September 1888 at 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields; uterus removed; Wynne Baxter inquest ended inconclusively; not a documented sex worker.
Annie Dookhan
Annie Dookhan, former Hinton State Laboratory Institute chemist in Boston (2003–2012), fabricated drug test results, jeopardizing over 20,000 cases; her 2013 guilty plea led to the largest mass dismissal of wrongful convictions in U.S. history.
Annual general meeting
An annual general meeting, or AGM, is a yearly meeting a company holds with its shareholders, who hear from the board, vote on directors, and question management face to face.
Annulment in the Philippines
Annulment in the Philippines is a court process dissolving defective valid marriages, distinct from nullity; the Family Code allows only annulment and legal separation since the Philippines and Vatican City permit no absolute divorce.
Anonymous (hacker group)
Anonymous is a decentralized hacktivist collective originating on 4chan in 2003, known for Project Chanology, Operation Payback, Arab Spring operations, the Guy Fawkes mask, and its legacy in later hacktivist groups.
Antarctic Treaty System
Antarctic Treaty System (ATS): the international regime governing Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, based on the 1959 Antarctic Treaty plus CCAS, CCAMLR, and the 1991 Madrid Protocol; consensus rule, 57 parties, 29 consultative, science and peace focus.
Anthony Allen Shore
Anthony Allen Shore, Houston's "Tourniquet Killer," was an American serial killer who strangled four females aged 9 to 21 between 1986 and 1995, was caught by a 2003 DNA match, and was executed in Texas on January 18, 2018.
Anthony Broadwater
Anthony Broadwater, a Syracuse Black man wrongfully convicted in 1982 of raping author Alice Sebold, served 16 years, was exonerated in November 2021, and settled with New York State for $5.5 million.
Anthony Brown (Maryland politician)
Anthony Brown is an American Democratic politician serving as Attorney General of Maryland, after representing Maryland's 4th district in the US House from 2017 to 2023.
Anthony Casso
Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso (1942–2020), Lucchese crime family underboss in New York, corrupt-NYPD-payroll operator, 1994 Mafia informant whose cooperation deal was denied in 1998; died of COVID-19 in prison.
Anthony Comstock
Anthony Comstock (1844–1915), Connecticut-born anti-vice crusader, founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and Postal Service special agent, drafted and lobbied the 1873 Comstock Act banning mailing obscene material, contraceptives, and abortifacients.
Anthony Corallo
Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo (1913–2000) was an American mobster, boss of New York's Lucchese crime family, nicknamed for dodging subpoenas and convicted in the 1980s Mafia Commission case.
Anthony Curcio
Anthony Jay Curcio (born 1980), American armored car robber of Monroe, Washington, the 'D.B. Tuber' of the 2008 Brink's heist, later a motivational speaker convicted in 2026 of forging PSA trading card grades as 'Brendan Wooley'.
Anthony D. Johnstone
Anthony Devos Johnstone is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Ninth Circuit since 2023, appointed by President Biden and based in Missoula, Montana.
Anthony Fenn Kemp
Anthony Fenn Kemp (1773-1868), New South Wales Corps officer in the Rum Rebellion against Bligh and pioneering merchant-grazier of Van Diemen's Land, called 'the Father of Tasmania', agitator for Tasmanian self-government.
Anthony Gaggi
Anthony Frank "Nino" Gaggi was a caporegime in the Gambino crime family, indicted with Paul Castellano in 1984 on racketeering charges involving 25 murders, convicted in a 1986 federal stolen-car trial, and the subject of a released FBI file.
Anthony Giacalone
Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone (died February 23, 2001) was a reputed Detroit Mafia capo and longtime street boss, brother of Vito "Billy Jack" Giacalone, and the man Jimmy Hoffa was due to meet at the Machus Red Fox on July 30, 1975, the day Hoffa vanished; convicted of bribery and tax evasion.