Editing King's Counsel (section)

===Women appointed===

The first woman appointed King's Counsel was [[Helen Kinnear]] in Canada in 1934.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lso.ca/getdoc/9d09e05a-0448-4a92-b108-3328d01a2c9f/helen-kinnear|title=Helen Kinnear|last=Brown|first=Deidré Rowe|website=Law Society of Ontario|access-date=2019-02-10}}</ref> The first women to be appointed as King's Counsel in England and Wales were [[Helena Normanton]] and [[Rose Heilbron]] in 1949. They were preceded by [[Margaret Kidd]] KC (later Dame Margaret Kidd QC) appointed a KC in Scotland in 1948.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://first100years.org.uk/helena-normanton/|title=Helena Normanton|date=2014-10-15|website=First 100 Years|access-date=2019-02-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/dec/13/guardianobituaries.gender|title=Obituary: Dame Rose Heilbron|last=Morton|first=James|date=2005-12-13|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-02-10|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In Australia, the first QC appointed was [[Roma Mitchell]], appointed 1962, who later became the first female [[Judge|Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of South Australia]] (1965), and then the first female Acting Chief Justice.