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Elizabeth Edwards
Elizabeth Edwards (Mary Elizabeth Anania, 1949-2010), American attorney, political adviser to John Edwards, breast cancer advocate, author of Saving Graces and Resilience; separated from him in January 2010.
Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845), born Elizabeth Gurney, English Quaker prison reformer; founded the Newgate women prisoners association (1817) and first woman to give Commons evidence; her work shaped the 1823 Gaols Act and she appeared on the £5 note.
Elizabeth Haysom
Elizabeth Roxanne Haysom, Canadian University of Virginia student, pleaded guilty in 1987 as accessory before the fact in her parents' 1985 Bedford County murders; sentenced to 90 years, paroled and deported to Canada in 2019.
Elizabeth K. Dillon
Elizabeth K. Dillon, also known as Elizabeth Kay Dillon, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Virginia since 2014.
Elizabeth Key Grinstead
Elizabeth Key Grinstead (c. 1630–1667), Virginia mixed-race woman whose 1656 freedom suit, argued via partus sequitur partem and her Christian baptism, won her liberty and prompted the 1662 partus sequitur ventrem law.
Elizabeth L. Branch
Elizabeth L. Branch, also known as Elizabeth Lee Branch, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit since 2018.
Elizabeth Prelogar
Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar, 48th Solicitor General of the United States (2021–2025), second woman in the role; Harvard Law graduate, Ginsburg and Kagan clerk, argued 35 Supreme Court cases before leaving office in January 2025.
Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Smart, American abduction survivor and child-safety activist, kidnapped June 5, 2002 from Salt Lake City by Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee, held nine months, rescued March 12, 2003; founded the Elizabeth Smart Foundation in 2011.
Elizabeth Stride
Elizabeth Stride (Elisabeth Gustafsdotter, 1843-1888), called Long Liz, a Swedish-born Whitechapel resident found with her throat cut in Dutfield's Yard on 30 September 1888, the third canonical Jack the Ripper victim and the only one not mutilated.
Elizabeth W. Hanes
Elizabeth Wilson Hanes, born 1978, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia since 2022, previously a magistrate judge for the same district.
Elizabeth Wettlaufer
Elizabeth Wettlaufer, Canadian former registered nurse and Canada's first known healthcare serial killer, killed eight Ontario long-term care residents with insulin overdoses (2007–2016), pleaded guilty June 1, 2017, and prompted the Gillese Inquiry's 91 recommendations.
Ellen L. Hollander
Ellen L. Hollander, also known as Ellen Lipton Hollander, is an American federal judge for the District of Maryland, appointed by Obama in 2011 and senior since 2022.
Elliot Richardson
Elliot Richardson (1920–1999), American Republican official from Massachusetts, held four Cabinet posts under Nixon and Ford. As 69th Attorney General he resigned October 20, 1973 rather than fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox in the Saturday Night Massacre.
Elmer McCurdy
Elmer J. McCurdy (1880–1911) was an American outlaw killed by an Oklahoma posse in 1911, whose embalmed body spent decades as a traveling sideshow attraction until rediscovered in 1976.
Elmer Wayne Henley
Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. (born 1956) is an American murderer serving six consecutive 99-year terms for his role in the Houston Mass Murders; he killed Dean Corll in 1973.
Elmo Lee Smith
Elmo Lee Smith (b. 1921, Richmond, Virginia; d. 1962), Bridgeport, Pennsylvania handyman convicted of the 1959 rape-murder of teenager Maryann Mitchell; executed April 2, 1962 at Rockview, the 350th and last Pennsylvania electric-chair execution.
Elpidio Quirino
Elpidio Quirino (1890–1956), Filipino statesman and sixth president of the Philippines (1948–1953): vice president and foreign secretary under Roxas, wartime resistance leader, Bell Mission economic recovery, defeated by Magsaysay in 1953.
Elyn Saks
Elyn R. Saks is a legal scholar at the University of Southern California who studies mental health law and disclosed her own schizophrenia in her 2007 memoir.
Email spam
Email spam, also known as unsolicited bulk email or junk email, is unsolicited commercial email sent indiscriminately; the first such message went over ARPANET in 1978.
Emancipation of minors
Emancipation of minors, also called judicial emancipation or "divorce from parents," is the legal process freeing a minor from parental authority before the age of majority, typically age 18; routes include court order, marriage, and military enlistment, with rules set state by state.
Embezzlement
Embezzlement, also called theft by conversion or abus de confiance, is the fraudulent appropriation of entrusted property, distinct from larceny because the original taking was lawful; a specific-intent statutory crime under 18 U.S.C. § 666 and § 641.
Emblems of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
The red cross, red crescent, and red crystal emblems of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, their protective and indicative uses under the Geneva Conventions, history from 1864, misuse rules, and the digital emblem project.
Embry J. Kidd
Embry J. Kidd is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Eleventh Circuit since 2025, after serving as a magistrate judge in Florida.
Emer de Vattel
Emer de Vattel (1714–1767), Swiss jurist, author of Le droit des gens (1758), the dominant 18th–19th century treatise on the law of nations, dividing it into necessary, voluntary, conventional, and customary law.
Emergency
A state of emergency is a legally defined, time-limited condition granting the executive extraordinary powers against threats like war, disaster, or epidemic, subject to judicial and parliamentary control.
Emil Albert Friedberg
Emil Albert Friedberg (1837–1910) was a German jurist and leading state canonist who taught at Halle, Freiburg, and Leipzig, and edited the Corpus Iuris Canonici (1879–1881).
Emil Bove
Emil Bove III (born 1981), also Emil Joseph Bove III, is a Third Circuit federal appeals judge, former Trump criminal defense lawyer, and 2025 acting deputy attorney general who fired January 6 prosecutors and moved to drop the Eric Adams case before a contested 50-49 confirmation.
Emilio Barzini
Emilio Barzini, Don of the Barzini family in Mario Puzo's The Godfather and its 1972 film (played by Richard Conte), is the hidden main antagonist behind the plot against the Corleones, killed by Al Neri during the baptism purge.
Emily D. Baker
Emily D. Baker is an American attorney and legal commentator who was a former Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney. She analyzes high-profile trials on her YouTube channel.
Emin Toro
Emin Toro (Besnik) is a US Tax Court judge, born 1974 in Tirana, Albania; former Covington & Burling partner and Clarence Thomas clerk, sworn in October 18, 2019 for a term ending October 17, 2034.