Juanita Maxwell Phillips
Juanita Maxwell Phillips OBE (23 ga Yuni 188014 Nuwamba 1966) 'yar siyasa ce kuma 'yar gwagwarmaya. Ita ce mace ta farko da ta yi aiki a Majalisar gundumar Honiton Borough (a yanzu kuma Gundumar Honiton Town), a matsayin magajiyar garin Honiton, kuma a Majalisar gundumar Devon.  A matsayinta na magajin garin Honiton, ta zama mace ta farko da ta zama magajin gari a Yammacin kasar. An nada ta Jami'ar Order of the British Empire a 1950.

Kuruciya 

An haifi Phillips a Valparaíso ga Margarita Maxwell Comber da Thomas Comber, wani ɗan kasuwa ɗan Burtaniya a masana'antar ma'adinai.  Ahalin ta sun koma United Kingdom a farkon shekarun 1890s. Ta auri Tom Phillips, lauya, a cikin 1906.  A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Farko, ta yi aiki a Ofishin Yaƙi.

Ayyuka 
Phillips ta kasance tana cikin yunƙuri da sauran ƙungiyoyin zamantakewa don yancin mata.  A matsayinta na ɗan takara, ta jagoranci surori na gida na Ƙungiyar Mata da Harkokin Siyasa, ta sayar da jaridar suffragist, ta shiga zanga-zangar, kuma ta kama a waje da gidan yari na Exeter inda aka tsare Emmeline Pankhurst bayan kama shi a watan Disamba 1913. 

Phillips ta kasance memba na ƙungiyoyi masu kare hakki da yawa. A cikin wasu kungiyoyi, ta kasance cikin kungiyar National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (wanda ake kira National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies); Budaddiyar Majalisar, wadda ta kasance memba na kwamitin zartarwa;  Majalisar Mata ta Kasa, wanda ta taimaka wajen samo babin Devon;   Cibiyoyin Mata ;  da Ƙungiya ta shida .  Kamar yawancin membobin ƙungiyar shida, ta yi adawa da sabon salon mata .

Siyasa 
Phillips ta zama mai adalci na zaman lafiya a cikin 1922 kuma ya kasance mai kula da Doka mara kyau .  

A cikin 1921, an fara zaɓar ta zuwa Majalisar gundumar Honiton a matsayin mai zaman kanta.  Ta yi aiki, a matsayin mai ba da shawara kuma mai ba da shawara, har zuwa 1953, lokacin da ita da mijinta suka ƙaura daga Honiton.  A cikin 1920s, yayin da ta kasance memba na Majalisar gundumar Honiton, ta ba da gudummawar nadin 'yan sanda mata. 

Phillips ta tsaya takarar majalisar gundumar Devon a 1928, amma ta sha kayi da kuri'u 74.  An fara zaɓe ta zuwa Majalisar, tana adawa da ita, a cikin 1931, kuma ta yi aiki har zuwa 1965. A kan Majalisar, ta yi aiki a cikin kwamitocin kula da mata da yara (wanda ta kasance shugaban har zuwa 1941), Taimakon Jama'a., Kiwon Lafiyar Jama'a, Kariyar Hare-haren iska (a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu), da Ilimi.

Manazarta

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Mutane daga Valparaiso
Mata a siyasa
Haihuwan 1880
Mutuwar 19666