Judith DeCordova

Judith DeCordova was a Jamaican political activist and feminist. She was a pioneer within the struggle for women's suffrage in Jamaica.
She belonged to a Jewish upper-class family of Jamaica.
She was a pioneer within infant welfare on Jamaica and president of the Child Welfare Association.
In 1918 she became the co-founder and later the second president of the Women's [Social Service Club|Women's Social Service Association]. She and Nellie Latrielle were leading figures in the campaign conducted by the WSSA to introduce women's suffrage, which had been introduced in Britain in 1918, also on Jamaica, a campaign which succeeded in 1919.
In 1936, she founded and became the first president of the Jamaica [Women's League].