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Mary A. V. Lemmon
Mary A. V. Lemmon, also known as Mary Ann Vial Lemmon, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Mary Ann Cotton
Mary Ann Cotton (née Robson, 1832–1873), English woman hanged at Durham Gaol for the arsenic murder of her stepson Charles Edward Cotton; suspected in up to 21 family deaths, often called Britain's first female serial killer.
Mary B. Briscoe
Mary B. Briscoe is an American jurist, a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit whom President Bill Clinton appointed in 1995.
Mary Bell
Mary Bell, full name Mary Flora Bell, is an English woman convicted in 1968, aged 10 or 11, of the manslaughter of two young boys in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Mary Brunner
Mary Theresa Brunner (born 1943, Eau Claire, Wisconsin) was the first recruit of the Manson Family, mother of Manson's son Valentine Michael, testified under immunity at Beausoleil and Manson trials, and served prison time for the 1971 Hawthorne robbery before her 1977 parole.
Mary Corleone
Mary Corleone is Michael Corleone's daughter in The Godfather Part III (1990), played by Sofia Coppola; she loves her cousin Vincent and dies by a bullet meant for Michael.
Mary E. Phillips
Mary Elizabeth Phillips, born in 1969, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Missouri since 2012, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Mary Ellen Wilson
Mary Ellen Wilson, also Mary Ellen McCormack (1864-1956), an American abused child whose 1874 New York rescue and testimony led to the first child protection society, the NYSPCC.
Mary G. Lewis
Mary Geiger Lewis, born 1958 in Columbia, South Carolina, is a United States district judge for the District of South Carolina, nominated by Barack Obama and confirmed in 2012.
Mary H. Murguia
Mary Helen Murguia, born 1960, is an American judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by Barack Obama, and its chief judge since 2021.
Mary Jane Kelly
Mary Jane Kelly (Marie Jeanette Kelly, Fair Emma, Black Mary), c. 1863 to 9 November 1888, final canonical Jack the Ripper victim, killed indoors at 13 Miller's Court, Spitalfields; youngest at about 25, most mutilated, life story resting on Joseph Barnett's unverified testimony.
Mary K. Dimke
Mary K. Dimke is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Washington since 2021, appointed by President Biden.
Mary K. Lanthier
Mary K. Lanthier, also known as Mary Kay Lanthier, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Vermont since 2024.
Mary Kay Letourneau
Mary Kay Letourneau (born Mary Katherine Schmitz, 1962-2020), American teacher convicted of second-degree child rape of 12-year-old student Vili Fualaau in 1997; later married him in 2005 after prison; died of colon cancer.
Mary Kay Vyskocil
Mary Kay Vyskocil is a United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, confirmed in 2019 after serving as a bankruptcy judge there.
Mary L. Cooper
Mary L. Cooper, also known as Mary Little Cooper, is an American jurist and senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey since 2011.
Mary M. Lisi
Mary M. Lisi, born 1950 in Providence, Rhode Island, is an American jurist who served as a US district judge in Rhode Island from 1994 to 2015.
Mary M. Rowland
Mary Margaret Rowland, born 1961, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in the Northern District of Illinois since 2019, appointed by President Trump.
Mary M. Schroeder
Mary M. Schroeder, born Mary Murphy Schroeder in 1940, is an American judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1979.
Mary Prince (nanny)
Mary Prince, known before 1979 as Mary Fitzpatrick, is an American woman wrongly convicted of murder in Georgia in 1970 who became Amy Carter's White House nanny.
Mary S. McElroy
Mary S. McElroy, born Mary Susan McElroy in 1965, is a United States district judge for the District of Rhode Island, nominated by President Trump and confirmed in 2019.
Mary S. Scriven
Mary S. Scriven, also known as Mary Stenson Scriven, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida since 2008.
Mary Surratt
Mary Surratt, boardinghouse owner at 541 H Street, Washington, D.C., convicted of conspiring in Lincoln's assassination and hanged July 7, 1865; first woman executed by the U.S. federal government, tried by military tribunal, guilt still disputed.
Mary Winkler
Mary Carol Winkler, Tennessee woman who killed her minister husband Matthew Winkler in Selmer on March 22, 2006; convicted of voluntary manslaughter in April 2007 on an abuse defense, serving about two months.
Mary Yu
Mary Yu, American jurist, served on the Washington Supreme Court from May 2014 to December 31, 2025, its first Asian American, Latina, and openly LGBTQ justice, after 14 years on the King County Superior Court.
Mary Ziegler
Mary Ziegler is an American legal historian and law professor at the University of California, Davis, described as the leading expert on abortion law in the United States.
Maryanne Trump Barry
Maryanne Trump Barry (1937-2023), American federal judge, sister of Donald Trump; Reagan-appointed District of New Jersey judge, Clinton-appointed Third Circuit judge, retired 2019 amid tax-scheme conduct investigation.
Marybeth Tinning
Marybeth Tinning (born 1942), American murderer from Schenectady, New York; convicted 1987 of second-degree murder for smothering her 4-month-old daughter Tami Lynne; nine children died 1972-1985, one conviction, paroled 2018.
Marybeth Whitehead
Mary Beth Whitehead (Whitehead Gould), American surrogate mother in the Baby M case; signed a 1985 $10,000 contract with William Stern, refused to surrender the 1986 baby, and won restored parental rights and visitation in the 1988 New Jersey ruling.
Maryland Toleration Act
The Maryland Toleration Act, formally An Act Concerning Religion (April 21, 1649), granted freedom of conscience to all Christians and first used the phrase 'free exercise' of religion in the American colonies, while mandating death for Trinitarian blasphemy.