Linda Eenpalu

Career

She was a well-known women"s rights activist. Eenpalu studied in Tartu in 1911-1912. She was arrested in 1941 and deported to Tomsk Oblast, where she remained until 1956.

Achievements

• She was a co-founder of the Estonian Female Student"s Society (1911), member of the central committee of the Estonian Women"s Club from 1928, Chairperson of the Central Society of the Estonian Rural Women in 1929-1940 and a member of the National Economic Council in 1935-1938.

Membership

She was a member of the National Constituent Assembly (1937) and a Member of the Second Chamber of the National Council (1938) and the first of her gender in both of these positions. In 1937, she was a member of the national housing department, and in 1938-1940 she was the only female member of the Second Chamber of the National Council.