Mariam Behruzi (1945 – 2012) was an Iranian lawyer and former member of the Iranian Assembly . In 1980, she was one of four women elected to the first Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Iran , where she continued to serve until 1996. She worked to improve women's and family issues, successfully campaigning to have a committee on women's issues created within the Majlis. Behruzi also worked to have more women included in the judiciary, and her efforts resulted both in a reversal of a ban that prohibited women from studying law and a change in public opinion on women in law in Iran.