Iowa Women's Hall of Fame
The Iowa Women's Hall of Fame was created to acknowledge the accomplishments of female role models associated with the U.S. state of Iowa, and is an endeavor of the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women (ICSW). In 1972, the state of Iowa created the ICSW to oversee women's issues, with Cristine Swanson Wilson as its first chair. During Women's History Month every March, the ICSW sponsors a public "Write Women Back into History Essay Contest".[1] Since the Hall of Fame's beginnings in 1975, four annual nominees are inducted by the ICSW and the Governor of Iowa in a public ceremony. The event is held on Women's Equality Day, which commemorates the August 26, 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution that gave women the right to vote. The honorees are nominated by the public via online forms available on the ICSW website.[2] The ICSW also created the annual "Cristine Wilson Medal for Equality and Justice" in 1982. Wilson was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1989.[3]
The initial inductees were Iowa's first female Secretary of State Ola Babcock Miller, who created the Iowa State Patrol; president and founding member of Iowa Woman Suffrage Association, Amelia Bloomer; president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and founder of the League of Women Voters, Carrie Chapman Catt; and Annie Turner Wittenmyer who founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union, formed an aid society to support Union Army soldiers during the Civil War, as well as helped to pass pension legislation for nurses in that same war. Catt was the first inductee.
In the ensuing years, the Hall of Fame ranks were joined by women from all walks of life. As of the 2011 inductee ceremonies, there have been 148 women inducted.[4] The list of inductees includes civil rights pioneers, global issues leaders, community volunteer workers, elected officials, artists, the medical profession and a large cornucopia of contributions by the state's women. Two First Ladies of the United States, Lou Henry Hoover and Mamie Eisenhower were added in 1987 and 1993 respectively. Environmental preservationist Gladys B. Black made the list in 1985. Mycologist Lois Hattery Tiffany was added in 1991 for her career of educating the public about mushrooms. The military is represented by Women's Army Corps veteran Rosa Cunningham in 1980 and by former United States Army Judge Advocate General officer Phyllis Propp Fowle in 2001. Vietnam War era anti-war activist Peg Mullen was inducted in 1997. Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Glaspell was a 1976 inductee.Hualing Nieh Engle, who in 1976 was co-nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, became a Hall of Fame inductee in 2008. Cattle breeder Mary Garst was added in 1981. Several women farmers are on the list, and added in 2001was attorney Phyllis Josephine Hughes who had also been honored by Pope John Paul II for her legal assistance to the farm community.
Inductees
Name | Image | Birth–Death | Year | Area of achievement | Ref(s) |
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Mary Newbury Adams | (1837–1901) | 1981 | Founded Northern Iowa Suffrage Association, founded Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs | [5] | |
Julia Addington | (1829–1875) | 2010 | Elected 1869 Superintendent of Schools in Mitchell County, first woman in Iowa elected to office | [6] | |
Bess Streeter Aldrich | (1881–1954) | 1998 | Author | [7] | |
Julia Faltinson Anderson | (b. 1919) | 1993 | Global community worker, included involvement with the Peace Corps and UNESCO | [8] | |
Peg Stair Anderson | (b. 1928) | 1982 | State chair Iowa Women's Political Caucus, served on numerous boards and commissions | [9] | |
Ruth Bluford Anderson | (b. 1921) | 1982 | Author, university professor, civic leader | [10] | |
Joan Urenn Axel | (b. 1943) | 2008 | Lawyer, civic leader; founding member of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women in Politics | [11] | |
Virginia Bedell | (1895–1975) | 1983 | First United States female serving on a regularly appointed parole board | [12] | |
Mildred Wirt Benson | (1905–2002) | 1994 | Children's author who helped develop Nancy Drew books; pilot and journalist | [13] | |
Janice Ann Beran | 1998 | Educator, community and church leader | [14] | ||
Mary Jaylene Berg | (b. 1950) | 1999 | Professor of pharmacy, advocate of women in health careers and pharmacy | [15] | |
Jessie Binford | (1876–1966) | 1977 | Juvenile Protection Association leadership, social worker and advocate for Hull House | [16] | |
Gladys B. Black | (b. 1909) | 1985 | Ornithologist and environmental preservationist | [17] | |
Amelia Jenks Bloomer | (1818–1894) | 1975 | President and founding member of Iowa Woman Suffrage Association | [18] | |
Barbara Moorman Boatwright | (b. 1924) | 2008 | Worked to help women run for political office; helped bring global peacemakers to Iowa; Boatwright Political Action Award established in her name by the Iowa Association of Social Workers | [19] | |
Sue M. Wilson Brown | (1877–1941) | 1995 | Civil rights advocate | [20] | |
Charlotte Hughes Bruner | (1917–1999) | 1997 | Pioneer for African women writers | [21] | |
Fannie R. Buchanan | (1875–1957) | 1984 | Music promoter and organizer | [22] | |
Bonnie Campbell | (b. 1948) | 2002 | 32nd Iowa Attorney General | [23] | |
Mary E. Domingues Campos | (b. 1929) | 1995 | Human rights advocate | [24] | |
Carrie Chapman Catt | (1859–1947) | 1975 | President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder of the League of Women Voters | [25] | |
Mary Louise Sconiers Chapman | (b. 1948) | 2013 | First woman to be the executive dean at Des Moines Area Community College | [26] | |
Betty Jean "Beje" Walker Clark | (b. 1920) | 2000 | Public service, Beje Clark Residentia Center bears her name | [27] | |
Mary Frances Clarke | (1803–1887) | 1984 | Founder of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary | [28] | |
Mary Jane Coggeshall | (1836–1937) | 1990 | Carrie Chapman Catt nicknamed Coggeshall "The Mother of Woman's Suffrage in Iowa" | [29] | |
Judith A. Conlin | 2012 | Educator and co-founder of the Iowa Women's Studies Association | [30] | ||
Roxanne Barton Conlin | (b. 1944) | 1981 | U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, Assistant Attorney General of Iowa | [31] | |
Joy Cole Corning | (b. 1932) | 2004 | 44th Lieutenant Governor of Iowa | [32] | |
Marguerite Esters Cothorn | (1909–1999) | 1986 | African American musician and civic leader | [33] | |
Rosa Cunningham | 1980 | Served in the Women's Army Corps in World War II, women's rights advocate | [34] | ||
Lynn Germain Cutler | (b.1938) | 1998 | Political worker and organizer | [35] | |
Jolly Ann Horton Davidson | 1987 | Educator, member of various public broadcasting boards and committees | [36] | ||
Evelyn K. Scott Davis | 1983 | Advocate early childhood education | [37] | ||
Jacqueline Day | (1918–2002) | 1978 | Civic leader, public relations officer for Veterans Administration, part of Congressional fact finding team to Vietnam during war | [38] | |
Gertrude Dieken | (1910–2002) | 1995 | Economist, journalist | [39] | |
Ursula Delworth | (1934–2000) | 2001 | Psychologist, academician | [40] | |
Minnette Doderer | (b. 1923) | 1979 | Iowa House of Representatives, advocate for women's rights | [41] | |
Nancy A. Dunkel | (b. 1955) | 2011 | Banking industry, mentor to women in business | [42] | |
A. Lillian Edmunds | (1892–1955) | 1988 | African American advocate for children and youth | [43] | |
Lois Eichjacker | (b. 1932) | 1994 | Advocate for disadvantaged, advocate for economic development | [44] | |
Mamie Doud Eisenhower | (1896–1979) | 1993 | First Lady of the United States | [45] | |
Hualing Nieh Engle | (b. 1925) | 2008 | Novelist, poet, nominated (with her husband)for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 | [46] | |
Mary Ann Evans | (b. 1993) | 2004 | Co-founder Iowa State University's International Women in Science and Engineering, and ISU Program for Women in Science and Engineering | [47] | |
Beverly George Everett | (1926–2001) | 1983 | Advocate for women's equality | [48] | |
Jeanette Eyerly | (1908–2008) | 2006 | Young adult fiction writer | [49] | |
Rosa Maria Escudé de Findlay | (b. 1936) | 1999 | Latino rights advocate | [50] | |
Diana L. Findley | (b. 1948) | 2003 | Established Iowa CareGivers Association | [51] | |
Merle Wilna Fleming | (1926–2006) | 1990 | Civil rights and education reform | [52] | |
Sue Ellen Follon | (1942–1998) | 2002 | Executive director Iowa Commission on Status of Women | [53] | |
Phyllis L. Propp Fowle | (1908–2000) | 2001 | First female in the United States Army to serve as an officer with the Judge Advocate General, and the only female in that position deployed overseas in World War II | [54] | |
Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler | (1907–1997) | 1987 | First licensed African American woman pharmacist in Iowa | [55] | |
May E. Francis | (1880–1968) | 2003 | Educator and author of Jim Bowie's Lost Mine | [56] | |
Betty Jean Furgerson | 1990 | Advocate for leadership skills, human rights, civil rights | [57] | ||
Ruth Ann Gaines | (b. 1947) | 2007 | Educator, created Sisters for Success mentoring program. Inductee of National Teachers Hall of Fame and Iowa African American Hall of Fame | [58] | |
Mary Garst | (b. 1928) | 1981 | Cattle breeder, state director Iowa Beef Improvement Assn, president Iowa Simmental Cattle Assn, served on many organizations, including League of Women Voters, Planned Parenthood of Iowa, and Iowa Children's and Family Services | [59] | |
Willie Stevenson Glanton | 1986 | First African American woman elected to the Iowa State Legislature | [60] | ||
Susan Glaspell | (1876–1948) | 1976 | 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Alison's House | [61] | |
Christine H. B. Grant | (b. 1936) | 2006 | University of Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame, Athlete and athletic director, University of Iowa | [62] | |
Mary Grefe | (b. 1928) | 1980 | Educator, consultant | [63] | |
Edna M. Griffin | (1909–2000) | 1985 | 1948 State of Iowa v. Katz, civil rights landmark ruling | [64] | |
Johnnie Wright Hammond | (b. 1932) | 2005 | Politician, civic leader | [65] | |
Renee Hardman | 2014 | Owner of the human resources business Hardman Consulting | [66] | ||
Virginia Harper | (1929–1997) | 1992 | African American pioneer of integration | [67] | |
Emma J. Harvat | (1870–1949) | 2007 | Pioneer in government service; Emma J. Harvat and Mary E. Stach House is on the NRHP in Johnson County | [68] | |
Ada Hayden | (1884–1950) | 2007 | Botanist who added 10,000 specimens to the state herbarium | [69] | |
Helen Brown Henderson | 1992 | Advocate for the mentally challenged | [70] | ||
Teresa Marie Hernandez | (b. 1956) | 2012 | Director of the Chrysalis Foundation | [71] | |
Nancy Maria Hill | (1833–1919) | 1989 | Civil War nurse who became a doctor; advocated for pregnant women and children | [72] | |
Cora Bussey Hills | (1858–1924) | 1976 | Helped organize the Iowa Child Welfare Association | [73] | |
Helen LeBaron Hilton | (1910–1993) | 1983 | Public service | [74] | |
Pearl Hogrefe | (1889–1977) | 1982 | Scholar, author, educator | [75] | |
Lou Henry Hoover | (1874–1944) | 1987 | First Lady of the United States | [76] | |
Dorothy Houghton | (1890–1972) | 1978 | Director of the Office of Refugees, Migratory and Voluntary Assistance during the Eisenhower Administration | [77] | |
Phyllis Josephine Hughes | (b. 1912) | 2001 | Honored by Pope John Paul II for legal aid to farmers; Democratic Party activist; novelist | [78] | |
Mabel Lossing Jones | (1878–1978) | 1991 | Educator spent her career teaching in India as the request of the Methodist Episcopal Church | [79] | |
Alice Yost Jordan | (b. 1916) | 2002 | Musical composer | [80] | |
Patty Judge | (b. 1943) | 2013 | 46th Lieutenant Governor of Iowa and Secretary of Agriculture for Iowa | [81] | |
Linda K. Kerber | (b. 1940) | 2009 | Historian | [82] | |
Mary E. Kramer | (b. 1940) | 2009 | Iowa State Senator | [83] | |
Brenda LaBlanc | (b. 1928) | 2005 | Advocate for low-income needy | [84] | |
Anna B. Lawther | (1872–1957) | 1985 | Advocate for voting rights, women's education | [85] | |
Meridel Le Sueur | (1900–1996) | 1996 | Writer | [86] | |
Mabel Lee | (1886–1985) | 1979 | Physical education | [87] | |
Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret | (b. 1929) | 1996 | Photo journalist who documented 1950s civil rights movement in Cedar Rapids | [88] | |
Jean Hall Lloyd-Jones | (b. 1929) | 2003 | Iowa Senate, Iowa House of Representatives | [89] | |
Twila Parker Lummer | 1988 | Advocate of care and education for pregnant teenagers | [90] | ||
Mary Lundby | (1948–2009) | 2010 | Iowa State Senator | [91] | |
Barbara Marie Mack | (1952–2012) | 2013 | Journalism professor at Iowa State University; first female corporate secretary and general counsel for the Des Moines Register and Tribune | [92] | |
Arabella Mansfield | (1846–1911) | 1980 | First female lawyer in the United States | [93] | |
Adeline Lavonne McCormick-Ohnemus | (1921–1996) | 2009 | Osteopath, rural doctor and county Medical Examiner | [94] | |
Jacqueline Easley McGhee | 2011 | Community activist | [95] | ||
Ola Babcock Miller | (1872–1937) | 1975 | First female Iowa Secretary of State; instituted the Iowa State Patrol; Ola Babcock Miller Building named in her honor | [96] | |
Margaret "Peg" Mullen | (1917–2009) | 1997 | Vietnam War era anti-war activist | [97] | |
Marilyn O. Murphy | 1988 | Volunteerism; civic leader | [98] | ||
Alice Van Wert Murray | (b. 1912) | 1985 | Farmer, community leadership, National Safety Council, Associated Country Women of the World Conference, Living History Farms | [99] | |
Janette Stevenson Murray | (1874–1967) | 1996 | Educator, voting rights for women, civic leader | [100] | |
Ruth Cole Nash | (b. 1922) | 2004 | Social activist, patron of the arts | [101] | |
Charlotte Bowers Nelson | (b. 1931) | 2011 | Civic leader | [102] | |
Louise Rosenfield Noun | (1908–2002) | 1981 | Community activist, patron of the arts | [103] | |
Denise O'Brien | (b. 1949) | 2000 | Organic farmer; founder of Women, Food and Agriculture Network, represented farmers at the United Nations, serves on many coalitions representing rural women | [104] | |
Mary O'Keefe | 2014 | Former vice president and marketing chief at Principal Financial Group | [105] | ||
Mary Jane Neville Odell | (b. 1923) | 1979 | Broadcaster | [106] | |
Jessie M. Parker | (1879–1959) | 1986 | Educator | [107] | |
Dorothy Marion Bouleris Paul | 2006 | Human rights | [108] | ||
Sally J. Pederson | (b. 1951) | 2004 | 45th Lieutenant Governor of Iowa | [109] | |
Ann Dearing Holtgren Pellegreno | (b. 1937) | 2001 | Musician | [110] | |
Carolyn Pendray | (1881–1958) | 1978 | Iowa House of Representatives; first female in the state legislature | [111] | |
Mary Louise Petersen | 1984 | Volunteerism | [112] | ||
Mary Louise Duncan Putnam | (1832–1903) | 1991 | helped develop the Davenport Academy of Sciences | [113] | |
Glenda Gates Riley | 1990 | Historian, women's advocate | [114] | ||
Louise Rosenfeld | (b. 1906) | 1979 | USDAHome economics extension agent | [115] | |
Eve Schmoll Rubenstein | 1992 | Broadcaster | [116] | ||
Shirley Ruedy | (b. 1936) | 2002 | Journalist | [117] | |
Gertrude Durden Rush | (1880–1962) | 1994 | First African American female lawyer in Iowa | [118] | |
Marilyn A. Russell | (1932–2007) | 2008 | Executive Director of Visiting Nurses in Des Moines | [119] | |
Edith Rose Murphy Sackett | (1901–1987) | 1984 | Volunteerism | [120] | |
Agnes Samuelson | (1897–1963) | 1976 | Educator | [121] | |
Annie Nowlin Savery | (1831–1891) | 1997 | Women's suffrage | [122] | |
Ruth Buxton Sayre | (1896–1980) | 1976 | Farm spokeswoman, co-founder Association Country Women of the World, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower both appointed her to Presidential positions. | [123] | |
Susan Schechter | (1946–2004) | 2005 | Social worker | [124] | |
Dorothy Schramm | 1986 | Global affairs | [125] | ||
Jessie Field Shambaugh | (1881–1971) | 1977 | Known as "The mother of 4-H clubs" | [126] | |
Georgia Rogers Sievers | 1989 | Community activist | [127] | ||
Margaret Wragg Sloss | (1901–1979) | 2006 | Veterinary medicine | [128] | |
Ida B. Wise Smith | (1871–1952) | 1977 | Suffragette, National president Women's Christian Temperance Union, served on White House Conference on Child Health and Protection during Herbert Hoover administration. | [129] | |
Jeanne Montgomery Smith | (b. 1917) | 1982 | Physician | [130] | |
Mary Louise Smith | (1914–1977) | 1977 | Republican Party worker | [131] | |
Marilyn E Staples | (b. 1926) | 1991 | Volunteerism | [132] | |
Helen Navran Stein | (1923–2010) | 1999 | Neighborhood cooperation, working with the blind | [133] | |
Rowena Edson Stevens | (1852–1918) | 1995 | Women's suffrage | [134] | |
Lyn Stinson | 2009 | Community activist | [135] | ||
Ruth Suckow | (1892–1960) | 1978 | Author | [136] | |
Phebe W. Sudlow | (1831–1922) | 1993 | Educator | [137] | |
Sister Patricia Clare Sullivan | 1988 | Health care | [138] | ||
Ruby L. Sutton | (b. 1932) | 2010 | African American civil rights worker, community civic activist | [139] | |
Adeline Morrison Swain | (1820–1899) | 2000 | Women's rights | [140] | |
Margaret Boeye Swanson | (b. 1919) | 2000 | Volunteerism | [141] | |
Ruth Wildman Swenson | 1989 | Scientist, encouraging women to enter science professions | [142] | ||
Elaine Eisfelder Szymoniak | (1920–2009) | 1999 | Iowa State Senator | [143] | |
Lois Hattery Tiffany | 1991 | Mycologist, educating the public on mushrooms | [144] | ||
Maggie Tinsman | (b. 1936) | 2014 | Former Iowa State Senator | [145] | |
Margaret Mary Toomey | (b. 1937) | 2003 | Volunteerism | [146] | |
Deborah Ann Turner | (b. 1950) | 2013 | First African American woman to be certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in gynecologic oncology | [147] | |
Evelyne Jobe Villines | (b. 1930) | 1994 | Political activist | [148] | |
Christie Vilsack | (b. 1950) | 2014 | Literacy advocate and politician | [149] | |
Nellie Verne Walker | (1874–1973) | 1987 | Sculptor | [150] | |
Jean Adeline Morgan Wanatee | (b.1910) | 1993 | First woman elected to the Meskwaki tribal council | [151] | |
Beulah E. Webb | (1895–1998) | 1997 | African American civic organizer | [152] | |
Mary Beaumont Welch | (1841–1923) | 1992 | Women's rights, home economics | [153] | |
Maude Esther White | (b. 1913) | 1998 | Educator, volunteer | [154] | |
Catherine G. Williams | (b. 1914) | 1980 | Social worker | [155] | |
Cristine Swanson Wilson | 1989 | Women's rights | [156] | ||
Connie Wimer | (b. 1932) | 2007 | Community leader, publisher, business woman | [157] | |
Annie Wittenmyer | (1827–1900) | 1975 | Established the Keokuk Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society to assist Union Army soldiers during the Civil War. Assisted with passage of an 1892 bill to give pensions to Civil War nurses. Founder and President of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. | [158] | |
Mary E Wood | (1902–1998) | 1996 | Business leader, YWCA executive | [159] | |
Mildred Hope Fisher Wood | (b. 1920) | 2011 | Physician, learning disabilities | [160] | |
Charese Yanney | (b. 1949) | 2010 | Business woman, fund raiser and civic leader, helped launch Women's Power Lunch and Women United | [161] | |
Jo Ann McIntose Zimmerman | (b. 1936) | 2005 | 43rd Lieutenant Governor of Iowa | [162] |
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