Grata Flos Matilda Greig

Legal pioneer Grata Flos Matilda Greig (1880 - 1958) was the first woman to practise law in Australia. Flos blazed a trail through the legal profession as the first woman to graduate from law at Melbourne University in 1903 and working to successfully overturn legislation that forbade women working in law. Upon her admission to practise in 1905, she was dubbed 'the graceful incoming of a revolution' by the Chief Justice of the Victorian Supreme Court.

Flos has no next of kin, having entered into a pact with her sisters to forgo marriage in order to lead fulfilling careers at a time when married women were not permitted to work outside the home.

Grata Fund, an organisation that enables people and communities to hold the powerful accountable in court by providing legal strategy, funding and campaign support, was named in her honour upon incorporation in 2015, 110 years after she had been admitted to practise law.

Isabelle Reinecke, Grata Fund made this donation #inhername