IOWA WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME
For more information, contact: Iowa Commission on
the Status of Women, Lucas State Office Building, Des Moines 50319;
515/281-4461
Many outstanding women have helped shape Iowa, and
many strong female leaders continue to contribute their talents and
skills to the state's growth. To recognize and honor these achievers
and to provide visible examples for tomorrow's female leaders, the Iowa
Commission of the Status of Women established the Women's Hall of Fame
in 1975.
Each year the commission solicits nominations of women
- living or deceased - who have had an impact on the state and particularly
on Iowa women. The four winners are chosen yearly by a five member selection
committee of three commission members and two public citizens. Inductees
are honored by the governor at a special ceremony in late August.
Members of the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame include:
1998
1997
1996
Bess Streeter Aldrich
Charlotte Hughes Bruner
Meridel Le Sueur
Janice Ann Beran
Margaret "Peg" Mullen
Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret
Lynn Germain Cutler
Annie Nowlin Savery
Janette Stevenson Murray
Maude Ester White
Beulah Webb
Mary E. Wood
1995
1994
1993
Sue M. Wilson Brown
Mildred Wirt Benson
Julia Faltinson Anderson
Mary E. Domingues Campos
Lois Harper Eichacker
Mamie Doud Eisenhower
Gertrude Dieken
Gertrude Durden Rush
Phebe W. Sudlow
Rowena Edson Stevens
Evelyne Jobe Villines
Jeen Adeline Morgan Wanatee
1992
1991
1990
Virginia Harper
Mabel Lossing Jones
Merle Wilna Fleming
Helen Brown Henderson
Mary Louisa Putnam
Betty Jean Furgerson
Eve Rubenstein
Marilyn E. Staples
Glenda Gates Riley
Mary Beaumont Welch
Lois Hattery Tiffany
Mary Jane Coggeshall
1989
1988
1987
Dr. Nancy Hill
A. Lillian Edmunds
Jolly Ann Horton Davidson
Georgia Anne Rogers Sievers
Twila Parka Lummer
Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler
Ruth Wildma Svenson
Marilyn O. Murphy
Lou Henry Hoover
Christine Swanson Wilson
Patricia C. Sullivan, R.S.M.
Nellie Verne Walker
1986
1985
1984
Marguerite Esters Cothorn
Dr. Gladys B. Black
Fannie R. Buchanan
Willie Stevenson Glanton
Edna M. Friffin
Mary Frances Carle, B.V.M.
Jessie M. Parker
Anna B. Lawther
Mary Louise Petersen
Dorothy Schramm
Alice Van Wert Murray
Edith Rose Murphy Sackett
1983
1982
1981
Virginia P. Bedaell
Peg Stair Anderson
Mary Newbury Adams
Evelyn K. Scott Davis
Ruth Bluford Anderson
Roxanne Barton Conlin
Beverly Beth George Everett
Pearl Hogrefe
Mary Garst
Helen LeBaron Hilton
Jeanne Montgomery Smith
Louise Rosenfield Noun
1980
1979
1978
Rosa E. Cunningham
Minnette Frerichs Doderer
Jacqueline Day
Mary A. Grefe
Mabel Lee
Dorothy Houghton
Arabella Mansfield
Mary Jane Neville
Odell Carolyn Pendray
Catherine G. Williams
Louise Rosenfeld
Ruth Suckow
1977
1976
1975
Jessie Binford
Susan Glaspell
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Jessie Field Schambaugh
Cora Bussey Hillis
Carrie Chapman Catt
Ida B. Wise Smith
Agnes Samuelson
Ola. B. Miller
Mary Louise Smith
Ruth Sayre
Annie Wittenmyer