Nora Stanton Blatch Barney

Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, born in England in 1883 and died in 1971, was a civil engineer and the granddaughter of the American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She graduated from Cornell University in 1905 as its first female engineering graduate and that same year became the first woman admitted to the American Society of Civil Engineers, though only at the entry-level grade of junior member; despite meeting every stated requirement, she was refused advancement to associate member in 1916 solely because of her sex, and the society did not recognize her with full Fellow status until 2015, decades after her death. She worked for the New York City Board of Water Supply and the American Bridge Company before turning her energies substantially toward the women's suffrage movement.