The Ohio Women's Hall of Fame
Image | First Name | Middle Name | Last Name | County | Category | Induction Year | Biography |
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Berenice | Abbott | Clark | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1991 | Get Biography
American photographer Berenice Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio on July 17, 1898. She attended Columbus Public Schools and studied briefly at Ohio State University before moving to New York City. In 1923, she was a darkroom assistant to the American Dadaist and Surrelist Man Ray in Paris. While there, she came into contact with the French photographer Eugene Atget, whose documentary work was at that time virtually unknown. In 1925, Abbott set up her own photography studio and made several portraits of well-known Parisian expatriates, artists, writers and aristocrats. After Atget's death, Abbott retrieved his prints and negatives, saving them from destruction and promoted his work. |
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Mary Jobe | Akeley | Harrison | Math, Science and Health Services | 1979 | Get Biography
A native of Tappan, Ohio and a graduate of Scio College (later Mt. Union College) Bryn Mawr, Akeley was a renowned explorer, educator, author and lecturer. After receiving a masters' degree from Columbia University in 1912, she became one of the world's leading explorers by traveling to remote reaches of the Canadian northwest, making ten expeditions in all. The Geographical Board of Canada acknowledged the importance of her achievements by naming a high peak of the Canadian Rockies Mt. Jobe in her honor. |
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Florence | E | Allen | Cuyahoga | Law | 1978 | Get Biography
Florence Allen's pioneering career in federal, state and local judicial systems has played a pivotal role in allowing young women to explore careers in the once male-dominated legal field. |
Owens | N | Alvarene | Montgomery | Law | 2010 | Get Biography
Attorney Alvarene N. Owens has been a trial lawyer for 35 years, beginning as a prosecutor, becoming a criminal defense attorney and ultimately establishing a practice specializing in personal injury and wrongful death claims. She was the first woman and African-American (or minority of any kind) to be appointed to the board of the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers. |
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Harriet | J | Anderson | Athens | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1983 | Get Biography
Harriet Anderson received an B.A. in Fine Arts from Ohio University in 1933. She returned to graduate studies in techniques of modern art at The Ohio State University in 1961. Shortly thereafter, she began to develop her unusual style of collage using acrylic paints, natural-found materials and Japanese paper. As a painter and textile artist, Ms. Anderson placed her art works in numerous Ohio collections. |
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Margaret | J | Andrew | Montgomery | Math, Science and Health Services | 1986 | Get Biography
Dayton native Margaret J. Andrew was the first woman to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Banking and Finance from The Ohio State University. After graduation, she was employed as an experimental engineer with the Frigidaire Division of General Motors and a pioneer for women in the non-traditional fields of science and technology. |
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Paige | Ashbaugh | Summit | Sports and Athletics | 2000 | Get Biography
Fitness legend Paige Palmer has spent her life striving to change the image of American women during her multifaceted career as a broadcast personality, journalist, world traveler, art collector, and philanthropist. |
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Earladeen | Badger | Hamilton | Religion and Community Services | 1991 | Get Biography
Dr. Earladeen Badger, Ph.D. has devoted over 45 years to improving the quality of life for future generations. As an associate professor in the Newborn Division of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Dr. Badger developed a parent training curriculum for low-income families. When federal funding for these types of programs waned, she revised the format to target middle-class parents and began to market the service. |
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Sheila | G | Bailey | Cuyahoga | Math, Science and Health Services | 2003 | Get Biography
Dr. Sheila Bailey is a senior physicist in the Photovoltaic and Space Environments Branch at NASA Glenn Research Center. |
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Carol | L | Ball | Darke | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1997 | Get Biography
Carol L. Ball is publisher and chief executive officer of Ball Publishing Company in Greenville, Ohio, which publishes The Early Bird, a weekly newspaper with a circulation of 27,000 and offers commercial typesetting and advertising and marketing consulting services. |
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Kathleen | L | Barber | Cuyahoga | Education | 1986 | Get Biography
Kathleen L. Barber's work in the fields of education and politics have made a profound impact in the Cleveland community. Barber is a Professor Emerita of Political Science at John Carroll University and chaired the department for several years. Even after retirement, she continues to conduct and publish research findings and is active in community affairs. She has been published in several legal and political journals and has written two books: Proportional Representation and Election Reform in Ohio (1995) and Right to Representation: Election Systems for the Twenty-First Century (2000).She has been a life-long activist in politics. Dr. Barber has served as a city council member and Vice Mayor of Shaker Heights. She was also a member of the Ohio State Democratic Executive Committee and a two-time Ohio delegate to the Democratic National Convention. As an active member of the community, Barber was a founding trustee of both the Great Lakes Science Center and Cleveland Public Radio and served on the board of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs. |
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Judy | Barker | Franklin | Business and Labor | 2002 | Get Biography
Judy Barker is the first African-American woman to become president of an international corporation's philanthropic foundation. In her 30 year tenure, she has made an impact on more than 20,000 non-profit charitable organizations. |
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Dorothy | Baunach | Cuyahoga | Business and Labor | 2008 | Get Biography
Dorothy Champion Baunach is a leader in technology development and entrepreneurship. Currently, she is the President and CEO of NorTech, a group of business and technology leaders in Northeast Ohio. Baunach was the founding President of the Edison BioTechnology Center (now BioOhio). Dorothy has served on the Industry, Technology, and Enterprise Council as a Governor's Appointee since 1998; a Governor's Appointee to the Midwestern Higher Education Collaborative from 2000 to 2006; and participated on an expert panel for the National Research Council for the report on "Harnessing Technology for American's Economic Future" in 1999. She serves on the Ohio Fuel Cell Coalition as treasurer; the boards of OneCommunity, Council on Competitiveness' Regional Innovation Initiative Expert Committee and President's Council, Ohio Innovation Fund Advisory Board, and NEOSA. |
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Mildred | Bayer | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 1981 | Get Biography
A 1932 graduate of St. Vincent Hospital School of Nursing, Mrs. Bayer is founder and president of Health Clinics International (HCI), a non-profit organization based in Toledo. Through her work with HCI, she established mobile health clinics in Nigeria after volunteering her services to a West African missionary hospital in 1970. She was also the inspiration for the beginning of two clinics in India, one near Delhi and the other east of Madras. |
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MaryoftheAnnunciation | Beaumont | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 1992 | Get Biography
Mother Mary of the Annunciation (Mary Beaumont) of the Order of Saint Ursula, was only 32 years old when she left France and came to Cleveland in 1850 with four other religious women from Boulogne-sur-Mer to be the foundress of the Ursuline Nuns of Cleveland. |
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Sandra | Beckwith | Hamilton | Law | 1995 | Get Biography
Sandra Shank Beckwith became the first woman judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in 1992, appointed by President George H. Bush. Prior to that, she had broken ground as the first woman president of the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners (1990); the first woman to be appointed, then elected, to the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners (1989); the first woman elected to the Court of Common Pleas, Division of Domestic Relations in Hamilton County (1982); and the first woman elected to the Hamilton County Municipal Court (1977). Judge Beckwith's career started in a private law practice with her father, Charles L. Shank, in Harrison, Ohio. |
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MaryJo | Behrensmeyer | Knox | Education | 1999 | Get Biography
Learn, teach and serve. The phrase serves as a mission statement for Mary Jo Behrensmeyer, a dedicated educator and archaeologist. |
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Mildred | Benson | Lucas | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1993 | Get Biography
Mildred Wirt Benson received her first award for creative writing at the age of 14 and went on to become the first woman to earn a master's degree in journalism from the University of Iowa. |
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Grace | F | Berlin | Lucas | Math, Science and Health Services | 1980 | Get Biography
A native of Monclova, Berlin was one of the first Ohio women graduates to earn a degree in ecology. |
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Daeida Hartell Wilcox | Beveridge | Defiance | Business and Labor | 1995 | Get Biography
Daeida Hartell Wilcox Beveridge (1862-1914) succeeded in a time and place where many others ,women and men alike , failed. Born in Hicksville, Daeida Hartell attended private school there and later public school in Canton. After marriage to Harvey Wilcox, she moved to California. In 1886, the couple purchased 120 acres of apricot and fig groves in a frost-free belt outside of Los Angeles. They subdivided the property into 400' x 400' blocks, landscaped them with pepper trees and gave the streets beautiful names like 'unset Boulevard." |
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Mary Ann | Bickerdyke | Knox | Math, Science and Health Services | 1979 | Get Biography
A native of Knox County, Bickerdyke was one of the best-loved nurses of the Civil War. She was a 44-year-old widow supporting her step-children as a "botanic" physician when, at the urging of her pastor and a friend, she started her career of caring for wounded soldiers in camp hospitals. |
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Anna | Biggins | Trumbull | Business and Labor | 1988 | Get Biography
Anna Ash Biggins has exhibited outstanding leadership within the United Auto Workers (UAW), the Congress of Labor Union Women (CLUW) and her community. |
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Ione | M | Biggs | Cuyahoga | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1983 | Get Biography
As an advocate for world peace and social justice, Ione Biggs has dedicated her entire life to political and social activism. She has spent many years working with various committees and inner-city organizations concerned with crime prevention, gun control, public housing, women's rights, voter registration, hunger, poverty, and unemployment. |
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Fay | R | Biles | Portage | Education | 1986 | Get Biography
Fay R. Biles, Ph.D., became the first woman vice president of an Ohio university, serving in that capacity at Kent State University from 1972 to 1978. She is nationally and internationally known for her work and research in the field of human resource development. |
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Eula | Bingham | Hamilton | Education | 1983 | Get Biography
Eula Bingham has demonstrated that individual citizens can and do make a difference. Through her pioneering work as a scholar and educator, future generations will benefit from her commitment to the health and welfare of others. Her achievements have earned her accolades from the workers she sought to protect, the business community she regulated and her professional colleagues. |
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Amelia | Bingham | Defiance | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1993 | Get Biography
Amelia Swilley Bingham's career began in her hometown of Hicksville, Ohio, where her father owned a hotel near the Huber Opera House. |
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Tina | Bischoff Lovin | Franklin | Sports and Athletics | 1981 | Get Biography
A Columbus native, Tina Marie Bischoff, is a world champion long-distance swimmer. Tina has an impressive background in marathon swimming and is one of the fastest swimmers in the sport. She set a new world's record August 5, 1976, by swimming the English Channel in a time of 9 hours and 3 minutes, 30 minutes faster than the previous record. |
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Carrie | Black | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 2008 | Get Biography
Carrie Nelson Black founded the Columbus Society for the Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis (now known as The Breathing Association) in 1906. She was a woman dedicated to improving the quality of life for those less fortunate. |
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Helen Chatfield | Black | Hamilton | Math, Science and Health Services | 1978 | Get Biography
Through her unselfish dedication to conservation and the protection of the natural environment of Ohio, Black has made a lasting mark on the conservation movement that has benefitted countless Ohioans. The Indian Hills resident has been involved at the local, state and national levels in many environmental and ecological organizations and has received numerous awards for her involvement in conservation. |
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Patricia Ann | Blackmon | Cuyahoga | Law | 1995 | Get Biography
In 1990, Patricia Ann Blackmon became the first African-American woman to be elected to the Court of Appeals for any district in the State of Ohio. Judge Blackmon currently is a Judge on the Eighth Judicial District, Cuyahoga County. |
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Elizabeth | Blackwell | Hamilton | Math, Science and Health Services | 1986 | Get Biography
Elizabeth Blackwell, America's first woman physician, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio during her youth. Blackwell overcame tremendous barriers to become the first woman admitted to medical school in the United States. Saving every penny she made as a teacher to attend medical school, she was rejected repeatedly. In 1847, she was accepted by Geneva Medical School in New York after a professor, hoping his students would do his dirty work, let the young men vote on whether to accept a woman into their class. They voted "yes". In 1849, Blackwell graduated at the top of her class. |
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Jeraldyne Kilborn | Blunden | Montgomery | Arts, Music and Journalism | 2003 | Get Biography
Overcoming boundaries and inspiring others to do the same is an overarching theme of Jeraldyne Blunden's legacy. |
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Frances | P | Bolton | Cuyahoga | Government and Military Service | 1978 | Get Biography
Frances Bolton's dedication to improving the lives of others through education and public service continues to effect members of the Cleveland community. |
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Erma | Bombeck | Montgomery | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1980 | Get Biography
Born in Dayton, Ohio, Bombeck is a best-selling author, syndicated humor columnist and television personality. A graduate of the University of Dayton, she launched her journalism career with the Dayton Journal Herald as a copy girl and later worked in the women's department for five years. |
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Rebecca | S | Boreczky | Delaware | Religion and Community Services | 2001 | Get Biography
After watching a 1970 newscast about an Appalachian train tossing candy to children and noting that this would be the only Christmas these children would have, Rebecca Boreczky's heart ached. The next year the children received Christmas gifts. Rebecca rounded up food, medicines, wheelchairs and school books for the rural schools in Pike, Adams and Scioto counties. She also obtained a fetal monitor for a hospital with high infant-death-rates. |
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Caro | Bosca | Clark | Government and Military Service | 2008 | Get Biography
As one of the first female pilots, Caro Bayley Bosca studied at the Woman's Airforce Training Program (WASP) as part of Class 43-W-7, and became one of the first women to pilot American military aircraft during World War II. |
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Mary | L | Bowermaster | Butler | Sports and Athletics | 1995 | Get Biography
In 1978, Mary L. Bowermaster was diagnosed with breast cancer. She lost her breast and underwent extensive radiation treatment. A survivor, Mrs. Bowermaster started training for local seniors' track and field events and has set numerous state, national and world records. |
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AMargaret | Boyd | Jefferson | Education | 1982 | Get Biography
With a vision of a world guided by principles of justice, compassion and brotherhood, A. Margaret Boyd worked to establish women's leadership in state and national organizations and institute foreign scholarships to help foreign women educators come to America to study. A life-long career devoted to educating and opening new doors in the lives of thousands of children, Ms. Boyd was appointed assistant superintendent of the Steubenville Public School System,the first woman to hold such a position. She also served in major leadership positions with the Ohio Education Association and with Delta Kappa Gamma of Ohio. Miss Boyd was instrumental in establishing the Ohio Delta Kappa Gamma Overseas Scholarship, which was later renamed the A. Margaret Boyd Scholarship. Ms. Boyd devoted time to provide education to all children, including the mentally retarded. She volunteered to contribute her knowledge and influence to work with a small group of community women from the Welfare Department of the Woman's Club of Steubenville, to pioneer the establishment of a school for mentally handicapped children. Still continuing today, this school has touched thousands of children, young adults and their families. A. Margaret Boyd also served on the Ohio Women's Advisory Council from 1970 to 1973. |
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Elizabeth | Boyer | Geauga | Business and Labor | 1978 | Get Biography
Elizabeth M. Boyer has made her mark as a lawyer, author, French linguist, teacher and a champion of women's rights. She worked her way through Bowling Green State University during the depression to earn a B.S. in education in 1937. Her sophomore year at the school was paid for by the grateful family of a girl she saved from drowning the summer of her freshman year. |
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Mary | O | Boyle | Cuyahoga | Government and Military Service | 1983 | Get Biography
In her private and professional work, Mary Boyle has focused on public policy as it impacts child welfare, public education, economic opportunities for women, and health care. |
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Harriet | Bracken | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 1978 | Get Biography
Harriet Bracken was the first woman vice president of the Huntington National Bank of Columbus, a position held since 1966. This former advertising director for F & R Lazarus Company (a division of Federated Department Stores) is a 1941 graduate of The Ohio State University. She is responsible for the planning, administration and execution of public relations functions for all the for Huntington Bankshares Incorporated Banking Offices. Harriet was active in the development of the national network of electronic banking through memberships on American Banking Association committees. |
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Christine | Brennan | Lucas | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1995 | Get Biography
Toledo native Christine Brennan - USA Today sports columnist, author of the best-selling figure skating books Inside Edge and Edge of Glory and television sports analyst - is a leading voice on the Olympics, international sports, women's sports and other sports issues. |
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Jeanette Grasselli | Brown | Cuyahoga | Math, Science and Health Services | 1989 | Get Biography
Jeanette Grasselli Brown has spent her life dedicated to industrial research and higher education. Brown spent 38 years in leading research activities for BP America with a forty million dollar annual budget until her retirement in 1989. She has also served on the White House Joint High Level Advisory Panel which assessed American and Japanese scientific and technological advancements. Her work in education includes placement as a Distinguished Visiting Professor and Director of Research Enhancement at Ohio University. |
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Hallie | Q | Brown | Greene | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1991 | Get Biography
In 1870, Hallie Q. Brown's family moved to Wilberforce, Ohio so that Hallie and her younger brother could attend Wilberforce University. Hallie received the B.S. degree in 1873. While teaching at a public school in Dayton, Hallie established a night school for adult migrants from the south. She then accepted an appointment as professor of elocution at Wilberforce University. |
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Yvette | Brown | Franklin | Law | 2008 | Get Biography
Judge Yvette McGee Brown is dedicated to promoting the healthy lives of children and families, and ending child abuse and family violence. |
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Margaret | Brugler Rogers | Franklin | Religion and Community Services | 2007 | Get Biography
Margaret Brugler Rogers spent her life helping others and making the world a better place to live. Lives of people world wide have improved as a result of Ms. Rogers' efforts. |
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Frances Seiberling | Buchholzer | Summit | Government and Military Service | 2002 | Get Biography
Frances Seiberling Buchholzer is an active force in civic, business, cultural and political affairs. She possesses a unique blend of energy and elegance, mixed with a tenacious insistence on excellence, leading numerous local, state and national organizations with which she has served - often in roles not previously assumed by women. |
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Marilyn | Byers | Ashland | Government and Military Service | 1997 | Get Biography
Marilyn Byers is the longest tenured female county commissioner in Ohio and is seeking her seventh 4-year term. She was the first female county commissioner in the history of Ashland County, elected in 1978. Her commitment to the community through elected office and as an untiring volunteer, is a remarkable example of service to others. |
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Patricia | M | Byrne | Cuyahoga | Government and Military Service | 1980 | Get Biography
A Cleveland native, Byrne was appointed ambassador to the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma in 1980. A career foreign service officer in the U.S. Department of State, she graduated from Vassar College in 1946 and received her masters' degree from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in 1947. |
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Joan Brown | Campbell | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 2002 | Get Biography
Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell is an activist and ordained minister who believes that citizens in a democracy must act on the conscience. Like many women in her generation, Rev. Campbell is first and foremost a wife, mother of four and grandmother of eight. At age 50, she was ordained having been an ecumenical interfaith movement leader for more than 30 years. She is a minister in both the Christian (Disciples of Christ) and American Baptist Churches. |
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Marianne Boggs | Campbell | Gallia | Business and Labor | 1998 | Get Biography
Marketing and communications specialist Marianne Boggs Campbell put the WJEH AM/FM stations on the air in Gallipolis, and served as general manager for 17 years until 1967 when she joined the AVCO Broadcasting Corporation in Cincinnati as corporate director of community affairs for its radio and television stations. |
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Jean Murrell | Capers | Cuyahoga | Law | 1997 | Get Biography
Jean Murrell Capers is a practicing attorney and a retired Cleveland Municipal Court Judge. In 1949, she became the first African-American councilwoman for Cleveland or any large metropolitan city in the U.S. From 1960 to 1964, Capers was an assistant Attorney General. She then became special counsel to the Ohio Attorney General, a post she held from 1964 to 1966. |
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Maxine | G | Carnahan | Coshocton | Business and Labor | 1989 | Get Biography
During World War II, G. Maxine Carnahan began working as a quality inspector in a munitions plant and like many women, returned to work at home after the war ended. After raising five children, she again joined the paid work force. |
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Shannon | K | Carter | Hamilton | Religion and Community Services | 2003 | Get Biography
Shannon Carter founded the Crayons to Computers Program in 1997. |
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Carol | A | Cartwright | Portage | Education | 1996 | Get Biography
Dr. Carol A. Cartwright made history as the first woman president of a public university in Ohio when she was appointed as Kent State University's (KSU) 10th president in 1991. She is a respected voice in regional, state and national higher education arenas, is known for her advocacy of women's empowerment through education, and is committed to bringing cultural diversity to academe. Under her leadership, a balance of excellent teaching and research has become a Kent hallmark as evidenced by KSU's 1994 designation as a Research University II by the Carnegie Foundation, one of 37 institutions nationwide to receive this designation. |
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Frances Jennings | Casement | Lake | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 2001 | Get Biography
Frances Jennings Casement developed her sense of social responsibility and gained her most useful education through her father's personal and political activities. While traveling, Frances met Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and became involved in the fight for women's suffrage. Frances brought those ideas back to Painesville and organized the Equal Rights Association (ERA) in the late 1800s. |
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Joy Garrison | Cauffman | Clinton | Math, Science and Health Services | 1995 | Get Biography
Blanchester native Joy Garrison Cauffman, Ph.D., was Consultant to President Kennedy's Council on Physical Fitness and President Eisenhower's Council on Youth Fitness. She was the first and only woman health educator to serve on President Nixon's Committee on Health Education. She served as President, American Association for Health Education and first Coordinator of the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations (CNHEO). She has authored more that 85 professional publications including longitudinal and international research studies. |
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Gayle | Channing Tenenbaum | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 2010 | Get Biography
Gayle Channing Tenenbaum has dedicated her life to the prevention of child abuse and neglect, public policy and services to strengthen and empower families to safely and lovingly raise their own children, and effective strategies to support the healthy development of children who have been abused or neglected. |
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Tracy | Chapman | Cuyahoga | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1989 | Get Biography
As a Grammy award-winning and critically acclaimed folk and pop musician, Tracy Chapman's impact on popular music and culture has made her a musical icon of her generation. |
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Dorothy McAlpin Maguire | Chapman | Lorain | Sports and Athletics | 2010 | Get Biography
Ohio native Dorothy McAlpin Maguire Chapman was born in LaGrange and lived her entire life in Ohio from 1918 until her death in Spencer in 1981. |
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Sister Julia | Chatfield | Brown | Education | 2007 | Get Biography
Sister Julia Chatfield became Ohio's "pioneer nun" whose determination to establish education in the wilderness endures after 162 years. |
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Bunny | C | Clark | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 1995 | Get Biography
Professor Bunny C. Clark, Ph.D., has had a remarkable career as a scientist, a teacher, and a role model and mentor for young women in science. |
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Marie | Clarke | Franklin | Business and Labor | 1986 | Get Biography
Marie Clarke is one of Ohio's foremost Black female labor leaders. She had the lifelong ambition to work for equal right in the work place for everyone. |
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Beatrice | J | Cleveland | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 1979 | Get Biography
Beatrice J. Cleveland has devoted most of her life to expanding the quality and quantity of 4-H opportunities for urban and rural youth. In 1942, she received a Bachelor's degree in Home Economics from The Ohio State University and was granted a Master's in Extension Administration from the University of Wisconsin in 1957. |
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Patricia | L | Clonch | Lawrence | Business and Labor | 1988 | Get Biography
Patricia L. Clonch has been an outstanding leader in her community and the State of Ohio. Since 1984, she has been the Executive Director of the Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce and the Lawrence Economic Development Corporation. Ms. Clonch has also been the Chair of the Private Industry Council in Lawrence County. |
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Virginia | J | Coffey | Hamilton | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1993 | Get Biography
Virginia Coffey's contributions to the quality and equality of life in Greater Cincinnati span nearly seven decades. A native of Michigan, she moved to Cincinnati in 1924 to teach in the West End's Stowe Elementary. She was shocked to learn that Cincinnati's public schools were segregated and that many of the city's amenities and attractions were off-limits to blacks. Coffey delved into local, state and federal law to learn that such discriminatory practices were illegal and she used her knowledge, courage and commitment to effect social change. |
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Gail | Collins | Hamilton | Arts, Music and Journalism | 2009 | Get Biography
Gail Collins joined The New York Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board and later as an Op-Ed columnist. In 2001, she became the first female editor of the Times' editorial page. Her twice-a-week columns convey common sense, intelligence and wit about the current issues. Collins uses research to back up her opinions, and concentrates on how political decisions affect ordinary people. |
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Maude Charles | Collins | Vinton | Government and Military Service | 2000 | Get Biography
Maude Charles Collins (1893 , 1972) made history in 1925 when she became Ohio's first woman sheriff. After her sheriff husband, Fletcher Collins was killed in the line of duty, Collins agreed to complete her husband's term. |
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Viola Famiano | Colombi | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 1993 | Get Biography
Viola Famiano Colombi's service in the fields of health, education, welfare and the arts has had a profound effect on the Cleveland community. |
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Lois Anna Barr | Cook | Montgomery | Education | 1985 | Get Biography
An impressive record of "firsts" for Lois Anna Barr Cook, Ph.D. of Dayton includes being the first woman faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and the first woman faculty member appointed as Assistant Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Wright State University. Cook also was listed in the first edition of the World Who's Who of Women in Education. As the first woman director of the Ohio Junior Academy of Science, Cook made significant contributions to scientific development among young people, while fostering programs promoting cooperation among thousands of volunteers in the scientific and education communities. Cook is a respected community leader and has been recognized by such diverse groups as the Ohio House of Representatives, the Women of Westminster and the American Institute of Chemists. She served as Chair of the Women In Science, Engineering, Mathematics Consortium of Ohio (WISEMCO). |
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Christine | M | Cook | Franklin | Government and Military Service | 1994 | Get Biography
Colonel Christine M. Cook became Director of the Ohio Veteran's Home on March 2, 1997. A native of Marshfield, Wisconsin, she is a graduate of the University of Maryland (1981), earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. |
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Sally | J | Cooper | Franklin | Religion and Community Services | 1984 | Get Biography
Sally Cooper has gained national recognition with her focus on violence against women and children. She has been actively involved in improving the quality of women's lives through the Women Against Rape of Columbus, The Columbus Women's Action Collective, and as former Director of Women's Programming at the Columbus B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation. |
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Martha Kinney | Cooper | Hamilton | Government and Military Service | 1978 | Get Biography
A First Lady of Ohio from 1929 to 1931 (the wife of Governor Myers Y. Cooper), Cooper is perhaps best known as the founder of the Ohioana Library, a collection of books and manuscripts either written by Ohio authors or about the state and its people. |
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Dorothy | A | Cornelius | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 1981 | Get Biography
A registered nurse, Dorothy A. Cornelius was devoted to promoting the nursing profession throughout the world. She was the only person to have been executive director of the Ohio Nurses Association, president of the International Counsel of Nurses, president of the American Nurses Association, and president of the American Journal of Nursing Company. |
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Alvina | Costilla | Lucas | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1999 | Get Biography
At the age of nine, Alvina Costilla and her family moved from Texas to Toledo following the 'migrant stream.' By the time she reached her teens, Costilla was assisting her father, a crew leader, in finding agricultural jobs in the Toledo area. In her determination to succeed, Costilla graduated from high school and attended business college. |
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Mercedes | Cotner | Cuyahoga | Government and Military Service | 1985 | Get Biography
With more than fifty years of continuous political service to the City of Cleveland, Mercedes Cotner's integrity and professionalism have earned her the respect of local, state and national leaders in business, labor, religious and civic organizations. |
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Claudia | J | Coulton | Cuyahoga | Education | 1994 | Get Biography
As co-director of the Center for Urban Poverty and Social Change at Case Western Reserve University's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Claudia J. Coulton is the guiding force behind a series of studies that have impacted Cleveland's neighborhoods and its citizens, especially the poor. The Poverty Center is one of six such centers established nationally by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1988 and the only one that is university-based. Dr. Coulton focuses on empowering people in the community , at the grassroots and agency level , to develop more effective methods at bettering the lives of the poor. |
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Betsy Mix | Cowles | Ashtabula | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1989 | Get Biography
Betsy Mix Cowles was one of the leading feminists, abolitionists and educators in nineteenth century Ohio. From an early age, Betsy was taught the value of a good education and a concern for the welfare of other human beings, particularly those among society's unfortunates. |
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Norma | B | Craden | Lucas | Business and Labor | 1988 | Get Biography
Norma B. Craden began a distinguished union career that has spanned more that fifty years as the first woman president of a UAW local in northwestern Ohio. She later joined the Communications Workers of America Local 4315, where she also served as president. She served in that capacity for seventeen years until her retirement in 1978. Craden accepted an unprecedented draft from the union membership to return as local president and was overwhelmingly re-elected to that office in 1987. |
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Ellen Walker | Craig-Jones | Franklin | Government and Military Service | 1994 | Get Biography
Ellen Walker Craig-Jones of Urbancrest's became the first African American woman to be elected mayor of a United States municipality in 1972. Serving as mayor until 1975, she oversaw the modernization of various village programs and the annexation of 60 acres of land. Prior to her tenure as mayor, Craig-Jones had many years of experience in service to her community. She served 12 years on the Urbancrest Village Council and on the boards of numerous nonprofit, civic and community organizations. |
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Loann | Crane | Franklin | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 2008 | Get Biography
Loann Crane, a native of Martin's Ferry, has diligently worked on behalf of the Columbus Museum of Art, The Ohio State University Foundation, and The Women's Fund. |
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Ruth | Crawford | Columbiana | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1980 | Get Biography
Born in East Liverpool, Ruth Porter Crawford Seeger is an accomplished musicologist and pianist. She taught at the School of Musical Art in Jacksonville, Florida; the American Conservatory in Chicago and at Elmherst College of Music in Illinois. |
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Eva Mae | Crosby | Franklin | Law | 1986 | Get Biography
Eva Mae Crosby was a pioneer in the field of race relations. She received a Bachelor's Degree from Oberlin College in 1933. In 1936, she was the first black woman to graduate from The Ohio State University Law School. Following graduation, Crosby developed up-scale brick homes and sold them at cost in the hopes of creating a racially integrated neighborhood. She remained active in the community, pushing for a fair-housing ordinance that became law in Oberlin. She supported the town's first black teacher when officials threatened to not renew her contract. |
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Faye | H | Dambrot | Summit | Education | 2000 | Get Biography
Faye Dambrot, a tireless and committed worker for equal opportunity for women and minorities, made a difference in Northeast Ohio and beyond. |
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JoAnn | Davidson | Franklin | Government and Military Service | 1991 | Get Biography
As Speaker and Minority Whip of the Ohio House of Representatives, State Representative Jo Ann Davidson was the highest-ranking woman elected official in the State of Ohio. She served ten terms as a member of the House from the 34th district, which includes her hometown, Reynoldsburg, and other communities in northeastern Franklin County. A member of the House Finance, Ethics and Standards, and Rules Committees, Davidson has carried legislation to strengthen Ohio's domestic violence statues and modify child custody laws. |
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Pamela | B | Davis | Cuyahoga | Math, Science and Health Services | 2009 | Get Biography
Dr. Davis is Dean and Vice President for Medical Affairs of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, where she is the Arline H. and Curtis F. Garvin Research Professor and Professor of Pediatrics, Physiology & Biophysics, and Molecular Biology & Microbiology. She received degrees from Smith College and Duke University. |
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Ruth | L | Davis | Lucas | Education | 2001 | Get Biography
In 1948, Ruth became the third generation of the Davis family and the first woman to assume the role of President of Davis College, Ohio's oldest proprietary school. Under Ruth's direction, the college grew and prospered. Ms. Davis has spent numerous hours with students who came to Davis College with nothing more than a dream. She assured her students they were ready for the professional work world by providing them with the clothing and inspiring the confidence and pride necessary for success. She has twice sold the college, but bought it back motivated by personal integrity and commitment to education, saying: "I didn't like what the new owners were doing." |
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Doris | Day | Hamilton | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1981 | Get Biography
Doris Day made her theatrical debut there at the age of four and later, as a teenager, teamed with Jerry Doherty to win a $500 prize as the best dance team in Cincinnati. Unable to pursue a dancing career after an accident injured her legs, Day turned to singing. Initially working with Karlin's Karnival (WCPO), she later toured with Bob Crosby, Fred Waring and Les Brown. |
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Margarita | De Leon | Lucas | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 2000 | Get Biography
"I can't imagine not volunteering," says Margarita De Leon, who was born and raised in the close-knit Puerto Rican community of Lorain. At an early age, she reached beyond the expectations of teachers, family and friends to begin a lifetime of civil service and dedication to opening doors for the Latino community. Not only has she committed herself to the success of many cultural, community and professional organizations, but she brings with her dynamic leadership and a fresh perspective to all that she manages. |
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Sarah | M | Deal | Wood | Government and Military Service | 1999 | Get Biography
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Ruby | Dee | Cuyahoga | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1986 | Get Biography
Ruby Dee's work to promote the importance of the arts, both on and off stage, has been an asset to the city of Cleveland. |
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Raquel | Diaz-Sprague | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 1991 | Get Biography
In addition to her significant accomplishments as a professional scientist, Raquel Diaz-Sprague is a tireless advocate for an ethical and humane work environment. Her efforts to promote the advancement of women in scientific careers and her commitment to eliminating all forms of discrimination from the workplace make her an outstanding role model. |
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Phyllis | Diller | Allen | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1981 | Get Biography
A renowned comedienne and actress, Diller was born in Lima and attended the Sherwood Music Conservatory in Chicago and Bluffton College in Ohio. She has been in a number of theatrical productions including Hello Dolly and Everybody Loves Opal and has made countless appearances in television, radio, concerts and supper clubs. |
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Gertrude | W | Donahey | Franklin | Government and Military Service | 1978 | Get Biography
Gertrude W. Donahey was the first woman in Ohio to be elected Treasurer of Ohio in 1970. As Treasurer she served as Chairman of the State Board of Deposit, Treasurer of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund and Treasurer of Public Facilities Commission. |
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Electra | Doren | Montgomery | Education | 1999 | Get Biography
Electra Collins Doren (1861-1927) was a true pioneer in the field of library science at the turn of the century. She spent most of her life in Dayton, serving the community through the development of its public library system. |
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Martha | Dorsey | Clermont | Government and Military Service | 1997 | Get Biography
Martha Dorsey, looked adversity in the eye and never blinked as she was determined to move ahead. While raising her young family of five, she accepted Public Assistance. She began her long climb by taking Business Administration classes in the Manpower & Training program and was successful in securing a job as a Secretary/Case Aide with the Salvation Army. In 1979, she was the first women department head at Clermont County's Community Action Agency. She resigned that position to run for a seat on the Board of Clermont County Commissioners where she was the first woman elected and has since been re-elected twice. |
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Rita | Dove | Summit | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1991 | Get Biography
In 1993, Rita Dove was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, making her the youngest person - and the first African-American - to receive this highest official honor in American letters. She held the position for two years and was reappointed Special Consultant in Poetry for 1999-2000. |
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Grace | L | Drake | Cuyahoga | Government and Military Service | 1995 | Get Biography
Senator Grace L. Drake served 16 years in the Ohio Senate representing Medina, Wayne and a portion of Cuyahoga Counties. She chaired the Senate Economic Development and Small Business Committee and Ohio Senate Health Committees. She served on the Rules, Finance, and Ways and Means Committees and the Controlling Board. Drake formed a statewide Ohio Dairy Strategic Planning Task Force. She was the original convener and chaired a series of summits on Economic Development and Regional Competitiveness. She was the Ohio Women's Policy and Research Commissions's first chair. |
Zell | Draz | Mahoning | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1985 | Get Biography
Associate publisher of the Warren Tribune-Chronicle and community activist, Zell Draz worked to improve the quality of life for the citizens of the Mahoning Valley. |
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Cynthia | Drennan | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 1986 | Get Biography
Cynthia Drennan's work in community service and her outreach to underprivileged people across the world has made her an asset to the Cleveland community. |
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Joan | Durgin | Lucas | Education | 2008 | Get Biography
Having successfully developed and implemented family life and sex education in the Toledo Public Schools, Joan Durgin is considered a force in the advancement of young women and girls in Toledo and Northwest Ohio. |
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Charity Edna | Earley | Montgomery | Religion and Community Services | 1979 | Get Biography
Charity Edna Earley became the first black commissioned officer in the Women's Army Corps at age 23 when it was created in 1943, but the Dayton resident jokes today that she owes that distinction to the alphabet. "My maiden name was Adams," Earley stated. That put her at the top of the list of new officers. "I earned the rest of it, I assure you," she said. |
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Barbara | J | Easterling | Summit | Business and Labor | 1985 | Get Biography
Barbara J. Easterling whose career began as a telephone operator, is the first woman elected to executive committee positions at Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the AFL-CIO. |
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Antoinette | Eaton | Mahoning | Math, Science and Health Services | 1992 | Get Biography
A Youngstown native, Antoinette Parisi Eaton received her M.D. from the Medical College of Pennsylvania and returned to Ohio to serve her pediatric residency at Columbus Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University. Her clinical work provided the foundation for many of her most significant accomplishments and her life-long commitment to improving the well-being of children and their families. |
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Ann | Eriksson | Franklin | Government and Military Service | 1982 | Get Biography
Ann Eriksson has served the State of Ohio and its citizens with extraordinary skill and devotion. Her contributions qualify her as an outstanding public servant. As director of the Constitutional Revision Commission from 1971 to 1977, Eriksson led the way in achievement for a number of reforms which helped to modernize the state constitution's provisions and keep the Ohio Code consistent and understandable. She maintained an unsurpassed level of technical accuracy and concern for each of these reforms. |
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Elizabeth | Evans | Franklin | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1996 | Get Biography
Liz Evans was Community Affairs Director at Clear Channel Columbus, a radio group that encompassed five radio stations: WTVN-AM, WNCI-FM, WCOL-FM, WFJX-FM and WZNW-AM radio for 25 years. Previously, she was community affairs director for the former WTVN television station. |
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Naomi | J | Evans | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 1995 | Get Biography
Naomi J. Evans became the first African-American school nurse in the Columbus Public Schools in 1942. She had wanted to become a nurse ever since she was a young girl. She worked at a men's tailor shop to earn the money to buy the uniforms, nurse aprons, oxfords and books for her first year of nursing school in Washington, DC. Returning to Columbus after graduation, Evans returned to Columbus and waited six years before she was offered a nursing position. |
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Louisa | K | Fast | Seneca | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1980 | Get Biography
A resident of Tiffin, Fast was a national and international women's rights activist. Orphaned three weeks after birth, she became a ward of Ohio's Governor and later U.S. President William McKinley. An 1898 graduate of Smith College, Fast was involved in that institution's relief unit in France during World War I, working in devastated areas to rebuild the countryside. |
Barbara | K | Fergus | Franklin | Arts, Music and Journalism | 2010 | Get Biography
Barbara Fergus is a graduate of the Ohio State University, a businesswoman, philanthropist, mentor and community advocate. A founding member of the Women's Fund of Central Ohio, Women in Philanthropy and the Women's Leadership Council, her work with women and girls in Central Ohio led to the creation of the Barbara K. Fergus Affairs. She is a member of The International Women's forum (IWF) and serves as treasurer of its Leadership Foundation Board, traveling worldwide to participate in symposia on leadership, philanthropy and entrepreneurial business solutions. |
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Nanette | Ferrall | Auglaize | Math, Science and Health Services | 1994 | Get Biography
On November 11, 1982, St. Marys' Nanette Davis Ferrall became the first paraplegic ever to walk. Nan Davis was coming home from a high school graduation party when she was involved in an automobile accident that would forever change her life. She enrolled at Wright State University and started working with Dr. Jerold Petrofsky, associate professor of biomedical engineering and physiology, who had developed a computerized system of stimulating muscles with small jolts of electricity. In the fall of 1982, Ferrall took five dramatic steps, the first since her 1978 spinal cord injury. |
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Luceille | Fleming | Franklin | Government and Military Service | 2003 | Get Biography
Luceille Fleming was Director of the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services (ODADAS) for more than 14 years. |
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Patricia Louise | Fletcher | Jefferson | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 2000 | Get Biography
As the 25th president of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs and Youth Affiliates (NACWC), Patricia Louise Fletcher has set a precedent for future generations of Ohio women by embodying the NACWC's motto: "Lifting as we climb." |
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Daisy | M | Flowers | Franklin | Religion and Community Services | 1999 | Get Biography
Daisy M. Flowers moved to Ohio in the late 1930s, farming the land with the aid of her younger brother. Her brother's death in Wold War II sparked her involvement in the American Legion Auxiliary as well as a lifetime of community service in Central Ohio. Through her auxiliary involvement, she promoted the participation of minority students in Buckeye Boys' and Girls' State. |
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Bernice | W | Foley | Hamilton | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1982 | Get Biography
Writer, lecturer and world traveler, Mrs. Foley has made fashion her speciality. She has served as fashion commentator for radio and television in Cincinnati. One summer she was a model for McCall's and Singer Sewing Machines in Moscow. |
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Lucille | G | Ford | Ashland | Education | 2001 | Get Biography
In a field traditionally dominated by men, Lucille's contributions to the field of economic education are unparalleled. She has devoted much of her life to "telling and teaching the American economic story." |
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Nancy | Frankenberg | Delaware | Religion and Community Services | 2002 | Get Biography
Nancy Frankenberg was a social service activist, advocate and volunteer who earned the title "the social conscience of Delaware". Over the course of five decades, she fostered the development of more than a dozen social service agencies and countless civic and charitable programs including the Council of Social Agencies, the forerunner of the local United Way. |
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Dorothy | Fuldheim | Cuyahoga | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1980 | Get Biography
A prominent news analyst and television broadcaster, Dorothy Fuldheim began her radio career as a news broadcaster at the Cleveland-based Scripps-Howard WEWS broadcasting station in 1924. |
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Frances Dana | Gage | Hamilton | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1995 | Get Biography
Frances Dana Gage, writer, lecturer and social artist, dedicated her life to the three major social reform movements of her day , , abolition of slavery, temperance and equal rights for women. In 1850, she organized a petition drive secure voting privileges for women and African-Americans in Ohio, suggesting that the words "white" and "male" be left out of the new state's constitution. Ms. Gage was active in the women's suffrage movement at both the state and national levels, presiding over Ohio's second statewide women's rights conference in 1852 and over a national convention held in Cleveland the following year. |
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Ursula | M | Gallagher | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 1994 | Get Biography
Ursula M. Gallagher was born and educated in Cleveland. She received her bachelor's degree from Ursuline College and master's degree in Social Administration from Case Western Reserve University. She began her social work career as a caseworker for the Child Welfare Board. She served as assistant director of Catholic Social Service in San Francisco, where she was responsible for more than 4,000 children and their families. |
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Carole | Garrison | Summit | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1998 | Get Biography
Dr. Carole Garrison, Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Police Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, has been influential in humanitarian efforts and women's causes at every level. She has been president of the Akron Area Women's History Project, founding director of the University of Akron's Women's Studies Program, first vice chair of the Ohio Women's Commission, served on the boards of the National Women Studies Association and the U.S. Defense Department's Committee on Women in the Services, served as electoral supervisor in Cambodia and as executive director of the Cooperation Committee for Cambodia. |
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Marilyn | H | Gaston | Hamilton | Math, Science and Health Services | 1990 | Get Biography
Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston's professional career has been dedicated to improving the health of children and their families, especially poor and minority families. She recognized the life-saving importance of newborn screening and implemented one of the earliest screening and treatment programs while on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. |
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Sister Mary Ignatia | Gavin | Summit | Religion and Community Services | 1991 | Get Biography
At a time when alcoholism was thought to result from irreversibly moral failure, Sister Mary Ignatia Gavin pioneered the concept of medical treatment for the disease of addiction. Dubbed the "Angel of Alcoholics Anonymous," Sister Ignatia founded the first alcohol addiction treatment center in the world at Akron's St. Thomas Hospital in 1939. This revolutionary program serves as the model for the wide variety of chemical dependency treatment programs today. |
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Ann | Gazelle | Franklin | Religion and Community Services | 1989 | Get Biography
Ann Gazelle has achieved pioneering successes in both social services and the arts. Her strength of spirit has driven her to become a leader, an advocate and a role model despite her loss of eyesight to glaucoma at age sixteen. This did not stop her from becoming an accomplished woman. Gazelle graduated Cum Laude from Ohio State University and is a licensed social worker. |
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Zelma Watson | George | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 1982 | Get Biography
Zelma Watson George's early work in international politics, education and the performing arts was essential to her later role as an active community leader and director of the Cleveland Job Corps Center for Women. |
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Carol | Gibbs | Hamilton | Religion and Community Services | 2008 | Get Biography
Born in Dayton, Ohio, Carol Gibbs founded Accountability & Credibility Together, Inc. (ACT) in Cincinnati on the belief that all parents have the right and responsibility to independently care for and support their families. Her efforts support more than 1,000 poor working families with children each year. |
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Nikki | Giovanni | Hamilton | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1985 | Get Biography
Nikki Giovanni, of Cincinnati, is a critically acclaimed poet, essayist, and lecturer. She attended Fisk University where she worked with the school's Writer's Workshop and edited the literary magazine. After receiving her bachelor of arts degree, she organized the Black Arts Festival in Cincinnati. Giovanni has since further studied at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Work and Columbia University's School of Fine Arts. In 1970 Giovanni founded Niktom Limited a publishing company. |
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Lillian | Gish | Hamilton | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1980 | Get Biography
An award-winning actress and one of the most famous stars of the silent screen, Gish has led a long and illustrious career, making more than 100 films and appearing in a number of stage productions. |
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Hooker | Glendinning | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 1986 | Get Biography
Hooker Glendinning's commitment to social justice and racial and cultural equality through her involvement in the Episcopalian church and community has greatly affected the city of Cleveland. |
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Annie | Glenn | Muskingum | Religion and Community Services | 1999 | Get Biography
In the small town of New Concord, Anna Margaret Castor befriended a boy named John Glenn, Jr. The two became playmates, then sweethearts and married years later. |
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Aurora | Gonzalez | Lucas | Religion and Community Services | 1985 | Get Biography
Aurora Gonzales worked for several decades organizing, educating and activating the Hispanic community in Toledo. She made significant contributions through her involvement as a founder and leader in La Voz del Barrio (The Voice of the Neighborhood), a grassroots citizens action organization in South Toledo. |
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Olga | D | Gonzalez-Sanabria | Cuyahoga | Math, Science and Health Services | 2003 | Get Biography
Olga D. González-Sanabria is Director of the Systems Management Office at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, guiding the strategic development of program direction and resource allocation. |
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Rae Natalie | P | Goodall | Morrow | Math, Science and Health Services | 1996 | Get Biography
Born and raised on a small farm near Lexington in Morrow County, Rae Natalie Prosser received her Bachelor of Science and Master's degrees in biology and art education from Kent State University. After four years' teaching for Mobil Oil in Venezuela, she traveled through South America, meeting her husband Thomas D. Goodall, in Tierra del Fuego. A resident of "Fireland" since 1963, she has carried out research on the flora, fauna and history of the island, mainly with grants from the National Geographic Society. Her book, Tierra del Fuego, (fourth edition in progress) is required reading in schools and her maps, agendas and other items have taught Fuegians about their natural resources. |
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Jewel Freeman | Graham | Greene | Religion and Community Services | 1988 | Get Biography
Jewel Freeman Graham is an attorney and professor of social welfare and legal studies, emerita, at Antioch College. She has dedicated her life to human services. Serving as President of the World YWCA from 1987 - 1991, she led six million women from eighty countries in their tireless efforts to promote world peace, human rights, world health and human dignity. She began her involvement with the YWCA in 1939 as a young girl when she joined the Girl Reserves (now called Y-Teens), and has served both as a volunteer and an employee of that organization. |
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Michelle | Y | Graves | Hamilton | Business and Labor | 1989 | Get Biography
Michelle Y. Graves has been involved in the fields of banking and finance for nearly three decades. Affectionately known in her hometown of Cincinnati as "The Money Lady", she continues to be one of the nation's foremost authorities on the world of money. |
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Susan | F | Gray | Darke | Math, Science and Health Services | 2001 | Get Biography
Without compensation, Susan F. Gray works as a Darke County Park Commissioner teaching the importance of environmental awareness. |
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Beverly | J. | Gray | Ross | Education | 2009 | Get Biography
Beverly J. Gray was born in Ross County, Ohio and received her formative education in the Paint Valley School District. Gray is a graduate of Ohio University majoring in elementary education with a minor in history. She has pursued studies at Kent State University, The Ohio State University, the College of Mt. St. Joseph in Cincinnati, and Ashland College. She holds certificates in elementary education, vocational education (high school) and reading development. |
Esther | M | Greisheimer | Ross | Education | 1980 | Get Biography
A native of Chillicothe, Greisheimer has had a prestigious medical career bridging over fifty years of dedicated teaching and research. She was a medical education pioneer specializing in the fields of anesthesiology and cardiac research. |
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Jill Harms | Griesse | Licking | Sports and Athletics | 1994 | Get Biography
As a teenager, Jill Harms Griesse distinguished herself by becoming a national finalist in both synchronized swimming and middle-and long-distance racing. After college, she turned her talents to coaching, becoming active on both the national and international levels. She served 10 years on the U.S. Olympic Swimming Committee and took part in international trips for the U.S. Olympic Committee. |
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Georgia | Griffith | Franklin | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1994 | Get Biography
Earning an undergraduate degree in music education and Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1954, Georgia Griffith became the first blind person to attend Capital University. For 16 years she earned her living as a music instructor, until she lost her hearing. |
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Kim | K | de Groh | Cuyahoga | Math, Science and Health Services | 2009 | Get Biography
Kim de Groh, Senior Materials Research Engineer in the Space Environment and Experiments Branch at NASA Glenn Research Center is an internationally renowned technical leader in areas relating to the durability of spacecraft materials. |
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Cathy | Guisewite | Montgomery | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1988 | Get Biography
Cathy Guisewite, born in Dayton, received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Michigan in 1972. Cathy's first career move took her into advertising arena where she wrote for Campbell-Ewald Advertising, Norman Prady Ltd. and W.B. Doner & Co. Advertising. |
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Ivy | S | Gunter | Sandusky | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1993 | Get Biography
Ivy S. Gunter began modeling at age 15 and kept an active professional schedule throughout college and after marriage. After successful layouts in such magazines as GQ and Cosmopolitan for designers Calvin Klein and Yves St. Laurent, among others, the Bellevue native signed with New York's Wilhelmina Agency and headed for a swimsuit shoot in Jamaica. |
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Ann | Hamilton | Franklin | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1999 | Get Biography
Born in Lima, Ohio, in 1956, Ann Hamilton received a BFA in textile design from the University of Kansas in 1979 and an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art in 1985. From 1985 to 1991, she taught on the faulty of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Since 1992, she has made her home in Columbus, Ohio and is currently a professor at Ohio State University. |
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Virginia | Hamilton | Greene | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1993 | Get Biography
Virginia Hamilton, one of the most accomplished and highly acclaimed writers of our time, has written more than thirty books. Her children's books have received all the major American awards possible. She has received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award and was the first African American women to win the coveted John Newbery Medal. Other awards include the National Book Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Regina Medal and the Ohioana Career Medal. |
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Sara | J | Harper | Cuyahoga | Government and Military Service | 1991 | Get Biography
Judge Sara J. Harper is the first African American woman to graduate from Case Western Reserve University Law School; the first woman to serve on the judiciary of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve; and to co-found the first victims' rights program in the country. |
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Sister Jean Patrice | Harrington | Hamilton | Education | 2000 | Get Biography
Sister Jean Patrice Harrington, S.C., Ph.D., has been a leader and visionary in Ohio education as a college president, civic leader, board chairman, community advocate, and member of the Sisters of Charity. She expanded the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati to reach a broad audience of adults and students underserved in higher education; developed mentoring partnerships between the community and high school students at risk as the first Executive Director of the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative; and worked to open doors of opportunity for students as chair of the Miami University Board of Trustees and Interim President of Cincinnati State and Technical College. She became a role model for women serving on business and civic boards. |
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Sarah | E | Harris | Montgomery | Education | 1984 | Get Biography
Sarah E. Harris received a Bachelor's Degree in Education, a Masters in Supervision and Curriculum and a Ph.D. in Education Administration from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. She has served as a teacher, assistant principal and principal for the Dayton Public Schools; a university coordinator for Central State University and a manager for the General Electric Company in Cincinnati. Dr. Harris served as President of the Dayton Urban League from January 1, 1980 through February 23, 1984. |
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Kathleen | V | Harrison | Franklin | Government and Military Service | 2001 | Get Biography
Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen V. Harrison has always been a source of inspiration for women. She tried out and made the male cross-country team at Reynoldsburg High School as a sophomore. She was the first and only female to run in the league. |
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Florence | Harshman | Mahoning | Religion and Community Services | 1989 | Get Biography
Florence Harshman has dedicated her professional and personal life to serving youth and disadvantaged persons. As a social worker in the Youngstown City Schools, she initiated chemical and sexual abuse prevention programs. When a local community center closed, she was instrumental in establishing an after-school tutorial/recreation program for youth. |
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Zell | Hart-Deming | Trumbull | Business and Labor | 2002 | Get Biography
Zell Hart Deming was a journalistic pioneer, rising from Society Reporter to President, General Manager and Controlling Stockholder of the Warren Tribune (now Warren Tribune-Chronicle). |
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Lucille | L | Hastings | Holmes | Religion and Community Services | 2007 | Get Biography
Lucille Hastings is a volunteer leader devoted to improving the quality of life for others in her community through her work with libraries, agriculture and public policy. |
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Elizabeth | J | Hauser | Trumbull | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1996 | Get Biography
A national leader in the women's suffrage movement, Girard native Elizabeth J. Hauser was one of the founders of the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Educated in public schools, she became a suffragist at 16 when she attended a state suffrage meeting in Salem, Ohio. She began her career pursuing her first love, journalism, as editor of the weekly newspaper Girard Grit at the age of 19 and resigned that position when she was 22 to follow her dream of political equality for women when Harriet Taylor Upton, treasurer of the National Woman's Suffrage Society, asked her to become her personal secretary. |
Cindy Noble | Hauserman | Ross | Sports and Athletics | 1984 | Get Biography
A 1984 U.S. Olympic Basketball Team gold medalist, Cindy Noble Hauserman is recognized for her pursuit of individual excellence, as well as her dedication to the ideals of sports. At 6 feet, 5 inches, her amateur athletic career includes positions on state high school championship teams in volleyball, track and basketball, as well as playing in three NCAA Final Four Tournaments while attending the University of Tennessee. |
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Sister Donna | L | Hawk | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 1991 | Get Biography
Sister Donna L. Hawk of Cleveland is a national leader in the development and operation of transitional housing for the homeless. |
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Lucy Webb | Hayes | Ross | Government and Military Service | 1993 | Get Biography
Lucy Webb Hayes, wife of the 19th President of the United States and the first to be referred to as "First Lady" by the White House press corps, pioneered this public role. |
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Bernadine | Healy | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 1996 | Get Biography
Dr. Bernadine Healy, a nationally recognized leader in medical education, biomedical research, and university and public administration, received her Bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, from Vassar College, and her MD, cum laude, from Harvard Medical School. After postgraduate training in internal medicine and cardiology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Healy served as professor of medicine and cardiology, director of the coronary care unit, and assistant dean for post-doctoral programs and faculty development. |
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Mariwyn | Heath | Montgomery | Business and Labor | 1983 | Get Biography
Mariwyn D. Heath has spent her personal and professional life working to advance women in government, business, education and community life. She is a role model for women seeking to balance their busy schedules as wives, mothers, business women and community partners. |
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Joan | C | Heidelberg | Miami | Math, Science and Health Services | 1997 | Get Biography
Joan C. Heidelberg, executive director of the Brukner Nature Center in Troy, has spent more than 25 years building the environmental education center into a nationally recognized institution. It was named one of the top three natural history museums in the United States by the Institute for Museum Services. Under Heidelberg's leadership, the center has grown to a private nonprofit organization that draws thousands of visitors annually, providing outreach programs, environmental workshops for educators, wildlife rehabilitation and animal therapy programs. |
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Elsie | D. | Helsel | Athens | Religion and Community Services | 2002 | Get Biography
A mother's advocacy led Dr. Elsie Helsel to become a driving force in promoting community inclusion and productivity for individuals with developmental disabilities. |
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Clarice | Herbert | Allen | Religion and Community Services | 1997 | Get Biography
Clarice Gamble Herbert is a lifelong community service leader, focusing her leadership on the needs of women and girls through the YWCA. She is the founder of a center for chemically dependent women and a center for the elderly. |
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Louise | Herring | Hamilton | Business and Labor | 1986 | Get Biography
Louise McCarren Herring graduated from the University of Cincinnati, College of Engineering and Commerce in 1932. Her career began at the Kroger Company where she directed women's personnel. Quickly, she realized that many personnel issues were created by a lack of consumer credit. She read about credit unions and wrote to Edward A. Filene, founder of the credit union movement. Her correspondence with Filene and Roy F. Bergengren resulted in the organization of thirteen credit unions in the Kroger Company. |
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Joy Alice | Hintz | Muskingum | Religion and Community Services | 1993 | Get Biography
Joy Alice Hintz was born in Zanesville, the daughter of a Disciples minister. She graduated from The Ohio State University with a degree in education and taught elementary school in Seneca County after marriage. Hintz became active with Church Women United, serving as president of her local organization and the representative for Northwest Ohio on the State Board. |
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Shirley | G | Hoffman | Cuyahoga | Math, Science and Health Services | 2000 | Get Biography
While today women all across the country routinely have an annual exam and Pap test to detect cervical cancer, the Pap test is a relatively new medical technique. Shirley G. Hoffman was instrumental in organizing and training medical technicians in Ohio to detect cancer of the cervix from the results of a Pap test. Through Hoffman's efforts to educate professionals in Ohio in the field of cytology, her insistence on structured and comprehensive training for those professionals, her encouragement of men and women to enter the field of cytology, and her promotion of the importance of the Pap test, countless lives of Ohioans , especially women , have been saved through early cancer detection. |
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June | A | Holley | Athens | Religion and Community Services | 1991 | Get Biography
June Holley has devoted her energy and her vision to combating the persistent poverty that plagues much of rural Appalachia. Ms. Holley's belief in the power of work to sustain and foster positive human development and her commitment to economic justice have fueled her efforts to bring those left behind back into the economic mainstream. Her dedication has resulted in increased opportunities for employment and business ownership for low-income individuals and a model national program for community-based economic development. |
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Nancy | P | Hollister | Muskingum | Government and Military Service | 1998 | Get Biography
Nancy P. Hollister made state history by becoming the first woman ever elected lieutenant governor in the state of Ohio. She later went on to serve for 11 days as Ohio's first female governor. She currently represents the 96th District (Athens, Morgan, Muskingum and Washington counties) in the Ohio House of Representatives. |
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Carole | F | Hoover | Cuyahoga | Business and Labor | 1999 | Get Biography
Carole F. Hoover, CEO and President of HooverMilstein is a pioneering woman in the field of business and the rapidly growing field of technology management. Hoover actively manages commercial real estate and telecommunications ventures, computer software and Internet companies. |
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Cheryl | Horn | Franklin | Business and Labor | 1999 | Get Biography
In 1981, equipped with an old-fashioned cookie recipe passed down from her Grandmother Elsie, a degree from Bowling Green State University and high-profile business experience, Cheryl Krueger started Cheryl's Cookies, a single-store cookie company that has evolved into Cheryl&Co., a multimillion gourmet food and gift corporation employing 370 workers throughout Central Ohio. |
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Katie T. | Horstman | Auglaize | Sports and Athletics | 2002 | Get Biography
Minster native Katie Horstman was recruited by the Fort Wayne Daises, an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGBL) team at the age of 15. She made her mark in baseball when it was not fashionable for girls to play sports. |
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Sharon | D. | Howard | Montgomery | Religion and Community Services | 2009 | Get Biography
Sharon D. Howard serves as Executive Director of Community and Public Relations for WDTN-TV in Dayton, the local NBC affiliate. She also is host of "Dayton and Beyond," a weekly public affairs program. She coordinates all station community projects, including Channel 2's COATS FOR KIDS and FOOD FOR FRIENDS, and is responsible for station community and public relations. |
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Lillie | P | Howard | Montgomery | Education | 2007 | Get Biography
Educator, administrator, scholar and author, Dr. Lillie P. Howard has devoted her life to helping young people secure a better future. Regarded as a leader in higher education, Howard has served at the highest levels of academic administration through five of Wright State University's six presidents. |
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Adella | Hughes | Cuyahoga | Arts, Music and Journalism | 2001 | Get Biography
After attending Miss Fisher's School for Girls (later Hathaway Brown), Adella Prentiss left Cleveland for Vassar College in the late 1880s. After graduation she toured Europe and studied piano in Berlin. Returning to Cleveland, Adella performed as an accompanist and began organizing concerts. Working first through the Fortnightly Musical Club and then on her own, she established the Symphony Orchestra Concerts. |
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Eusebia | Hunkins | Athens | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1981 | Get Biography
Eusebia Hunkins, widely known musician and composer studied piano and theory at Juilliard Foundation in New York. She studied composition at Aspen, Tanglewood and Salzburg, Austria. |
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Jane Edna | Hunter | Cuyahoga | Math, Science and Health Services | 1978 | Get Biography
The daughter of a former slave and sharecropper, Hunter was raised in South Carolina where she worked as a field hand, cotton picker and laundress. Recognizing the need for a formal education, she later attended the Hampton Institute in Virginia and received a degree in nursing. |
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June | Hutt | Cuyahoga | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1989 | Get Biography
In 1980, June Vereeke-Hutt established the Women's Career Network Association to promote the upward mobility and networking opportunities of women in the workforce. In 1983, she published the first issue of New Cleveland Woman, a monthly journal that offers advice, resources and news of workplace trends to the professional woman. |
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Jennie | S | Hwang | Cuyahoga | Math, Science and Health Services | 2002 | Get Biography
Dr. Jennie S. Hwang has excelled in the male dominated fields of engineering and technology. She has established a distinguished career and worldwide recognition in the fast-moving high-tech industry. |
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Josephine | Irwin | Cuyahoga | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1983 | Get Biography
Josephine Marie Saxer Irwin's first public record of suffrage appeared in The Cleveland Leader newspaper of October 4, 1914. She is pictured as one of five horse-mounted escorts leading a parade of 7,000 suffragists (not 'uffragettes," she insisted; that was the British term) on Cleveland's Euclid Avenue. |
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Grace Gouler | Izant | Cuyahoga | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1982 | Get Biography
Grace Goulder Izant, a writer, historian and preservationist, greatly impacted the Cleveland community with her enthusiasm for uncovering Ohio's past. She chronicled Ohio's most famous citizens and preserved important historical documents through her work as a journalist. |
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Janet | E | Jackson | Franklin | Government and Military Service | 2001 | Get Biography
Janet Jackson grew up in southern Virginia, two miles from where Ku Klux Klan members held their rallies. She was one of the first African-Americans to desegregate what had been an all-white school. |
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Rebecca | D | Jackson | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 1988 | Get Biography
Dr. Rebecca Jackson has a boundless enthusiasm for life. Her deep respect and commitment to others, accompanied by her determination to take on new challenges makes her an inspiration to everyone who truly knows her. |
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Dorothy | O | Jackson | Summit | Government and Military Service | 1990 | Get Biography
Dorothy O. Jackson, Akron's Deputy Mayor for Intergovernmental Relations for 17 years, uses her diplomatic skills and organizational talents to work effectively among all levels of government. She is a lifelong Akronite who is recognized as a capable and dedicated advocate of human welfare and opportunity by the community and beyond. |
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Luella Talmadge | Jackson | Seneca | Religion and Community Services | 1990 | Get Biography
Luella Talmadge Jackson has spent her life overcoming adversity. Born in a small town outside of Griffin, Georgia, Jackson was part of a large sharecropping family. In 1922, the family moved north to Ohio to begin a new and better life. For Jackson, that meant marriage, nine children and lifetime of quiet community activism. |
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Eleanor | Jammal | Ashtabula | Business and Labor | 1979 | Get Biography
A resident of Ashtabula, Jammal has been an employee at the Ashtabula Rubber Company, a family owned business, since 1960 and a member of its Board of Directors since 1966. |
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Barbara | Janis | Cuyahoga | Business and Labor | 1983 | Get Biography
Barbara Janis has had a long-standing commitment to helping women in the workplace. She has been instrumental in speaking on behalf of working women in regards to pay equity, child day care, human rights, and promotional policies and practices. She spent three years working as an organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, a union with a predominately female membership. |
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Elsie | Janis | Franklin | Arts, Music and Journalism | 2003 | Get Biography
Elsie Janis made her stage debut at the Great Southern Theatre in Columbus. At 16, she became the youngest star on Broadway, making her debut in The Vanderbilt Cup (1906). |
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Lillian | Janis | Cuyahoga | Business and Labor | 1983 | Get Biography
Lillian Janis's commitment to assisting the less fortunate combined with her interest in public service prompted her to become a prominent political figure in Cleveland. |
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Carol Heiss | Jenkins | Summit | Sports and Athletics | 1988 | Get Biography
A 1960 Olympic Gold Medal winner and five-time World Ladies Figure Skating champion, Carol Heiss Jenkins is an inspiration to athletes around the world. She currently is a professional skating teacher and coach, training young figure skaters for international and Olympic competitions. |
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Geraldine | Jensen | Lucas | Religion and Community Services | 1989 | Get Biography
Geraldine Jensen, of Toledo, is the founder of the Association for Children for the Enforcement of Support (ACES), a national movement to collect child support for children. She has built ACES into an advocacy program with a membership of 50,000 women. ACES now has almost 40,000 chapters 48 states. Jensen has led drives across the nation, including Toledo, to enact laws to make it easier to enforce and collect child support. |
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Billie | A. | Johnson | Lucas | Religion and Community Services | 2008 | Get Biography
Born in Glasgow, KY, and raised in part by both her grandmothers, Billie Johnson gravitated toward the advocacy of the elderly. After attending the University of Oklahoma and the University of Kentucky, Billie moved to Ohio in 1966. |
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Stephanie | Jones | Cuyahoga | Law | 1998 | Get Biography
Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones's commitment to public service through her work in law, politics and community service has made her an asset to the Cleveland community. |
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Mary Ann | Jorgenson | Cuyahoga | Law | 2007 | Get Biography
Mary Ann Jorgenson has had a distinguished career as an outstanding Cleveland lawyer of international repute, and has shown exemplary leadership and tireless commitment to her community of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. |
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Janet | Kalven | Hamilton | Religion and Community Services | 1990 | Get Biography
Janet Kalven is a feminist educator, author and activist with a long term commitment to the empowerment of women. Born in Chicago in 1913, her life spans most of the twentieth century. |
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Dottie Kammie | Kamenshek | Hamilton | Sports and Athletics | 2001 | Get Biography
Cincinnati native Dottie "Kammie" Kamenshek was drafted by the All American Girls Professional Baseball League as one of the original players in 1943. The league was started to keep baseball alive during World War II. Kamenshek started in the outfield for her first twelve games and was moved to first base, a position she never relinquished until her retirement. Kammie won back-to-back hitting titles in 1946-47 and was considered one of the league's best all-round players. In 3,736 at-bats, she only struck out 81 times earning a lifelong batting average of .292! |
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Carol | Kane | Cuyahoga | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1988 | Get Biography
While Carol Kane's career began on the stage, her work in the entertainment field in screen, television and stage has delighted audiences for over 20 years. |
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Rosabeth | Kanter | Cuyahoga | Business and Labor | 1990 | Get Biography
Rosabeth Moss Kanter specializes in business strategy, innovation and the management of strategic and organizational change. She advises major corporations and governments and is the author or co-author of 15 books regarding her knowledge of the business world. Her current work on "Business Leadership in the Social Sector" (BLSS) has led to the development of a video series and a national call to action through business associations in eight cities. |
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Marcy | Kaptur | Lucas | Government and Military Service | 1984 | Get Biography
Congresswomen Marcy Kaptur represents Ohio's Ninth Congressional District bordering Lake Erie and is currently serving her tenth term in the U. S. House of Representatives. She is the senior-most Democratic woman in Congress and ranks as the senior Democratic woman on the exclusive House Appropriations Committee. Winning her first run for elective office in 1982, she had been a well-known party activist and volunteer since age 13. |
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Bettye Ruth | Kay | Lucas | Religion and Community Services | 1998 | Get Biography
Bettye Ruth Kay dedicated her life to education, civil rights, world peace, nuclear disarmament, freedom, democracy, and holistic care for children and other adults. She has been described as a visionary committed to action. |
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Sister Dorothy | Kazel | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 2000 | Get Biography
Dorothy L. Kazel entered the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland in 1960 and was given the religious name of Sister Laurentine, an Ursuline nun martyred in the French Revolution. Although she returned to her family name, the early naming had eerie implications for the future. |
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Merle Grace | Kearns | Ottawa | Government and Military Service | 2010 | Get Biography
Through three decades of dedicated public service in Ohio, Merle Kearns has impacted the lives of all Ohioans and served as an inspiration for women. Her first campaign in 1978 revealed the cynicism held by many toward women in politics; she encountered many questions with a common theme: "Why do you want a man's job?" |
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Edith | M | Keller | Morrow | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1980 | Get Biography
Born in Blooming Grove, Keller was the first supervisor of music for the Ohio Department of Education and served in that capacity for 35 years. She became known as Ohio's First Lady of Music Education. Prior to this position, she chaired the music departments of Miami University and Mary Washington College in Virginia and was an elementary school music teacher. |
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Carol | S | Kelly | Union | Education | 1996 | Get Biography
Carol S. Kelly, PhD, has reached out to embrace and protect children who are disenfranchised, unempowered and without an advocate. Kelly, an internationally recognized educator, was a member of the Ohio State University's women's basketball team, hockey team, concert band, Women's Self Government Board, and president of several campus organizations. A professor at California State University Northridge since 1969, she has provided key leadership in developing and implementing an innovative interdisciplinary major in Child Development. She teaches, counsels and mentors diverse populations which include students of many races and cultures, some with learning disabilities and others with hearing impairments. |
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Jane | Kirkham | Cuyahoga | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1995 | Get Biography
Jane Kirkham was dedicated to providing spiritual, technical, and philanthropic leadership to Cleveland's Playhouse Square District. |
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Tella | Kitchen | Ross | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1980 | Get Biography
One of America's top folk art painters, Kitchen began her painting career at the age of 67 with a $15 oil painting set given to her by her son. Today, her paintings of childhood scenes sketched form memory hang in noted galleries throughout the United States, including the American Folk Art Exhibit in New York City. |
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Sister Consolata | M | Kline | Mahoning | Math, Science and Health Services | 1978 | Get Biography
Sister M. Consolata Kline was executive director of St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center when she was one of the first twenty women inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame. |
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Bernice | Kochan | Cuyahoga | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1979 | Get Biography
Bernice Kochan studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She became the second woman to have designed two U.S. postal stamps, and the only woman to have two commemorative issued in one year, the 1969 W. C. Handy and Alabama Statehood stamps. She also designed the 1969 T.B. Christmas seal. With 130 million of each of the stamps and eight billion Christmas seals, Kochan possibly had more art reproduced in 1969 than any other artist. |
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Blanche | Krupansky | Cuyahoga | Law | 1980 | Get Biography
Blanche Krupansky was the only female student in her law school class when she attended Case Western Reserve University Law School in 1946. |
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Maggie | Kuhn | Cuyahoga | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1990 | Get Biography
When she was forced to retire in 1970 from her executive position with the Presbyterian Church at age 65, Maggie Kuhn transformed her dismay into action. She met with five friends and formed the Gray Panthers, whose mission was consciousness raising about 'ageism' -- the segregation, stereotyping, and stigmatizing of people on the basis of age. |
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Carol | S. | Kuhre | Athens | Religion and Community Services | 2009 | Get Biography
Carol Stockey Kuhre was born and reared on the Iron Range in northern Minnesota, close to the Boundary Waters wilderness area. She graduated from Concordia College, studied at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, and started her career at Penn State's Lutheran Campus Ministry. While at Penn State she married her husband of forty-eight years, Dr. Bruce Kuhre. They have two daughters, Siri and Tanja, as well as a foster-daughter, Marilyn Ellis Knisley. In 1966, the family moved to Athens where Kuhre joined the Lutheran Campus Ministry staff. |
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Virginia | Kunkle | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 1978 | Get Biography
With a broad background in education, Virginia L. Kunkle was the first woman to become assistant superintendent of public instruction in Ohio. Her experiences range from classroom instruction at all levels, to administrative roles as principal, director of special education, director of elementary education and director of redesign and renewal. |
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Beatrice | Lampkin | Hamilton | Math, Science and Health Services | 1997 | Get Biography
Dr. Beatrice Lampkin, Professor Emerita of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) has devoted her life to research and efforts toward diagnosing and treating children diagnosed with leukemia, other childhood cancers and blood disease. |
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Joan | E | Lamson | Cuyahoga | Business and Labor | 1990 | Get Biography
Joan E. Lamson's first job was a switchboard operator in Huntsville, Alabama. She worked her way up by learning about the company's products and how to sell them. After fourteen years of selling industrial products, she started her own business in 1980. |
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Hattie | L | Larlham | Auglaize | Math, Science and Health Services | 1980 | Get Biography
While working as a registered nurse for 25 years, Hattie Larlham recognized the need for a place of care for children with profound mental retardation and developmental disabilities (MR/DD). As a result, she opened her home to these children, at one point caring for 11 children in her 3-bedroom home. |
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Bea | V | Larsen | Hamilton | Law | 1988 | Get Biography
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Carol | Latham | Cuyahoga | Business and Labor | 1999 | Get Biography
Carol Latham is founder, president, and CEO of Thermagon, Inc., a custom manufacturer of high performance heat transfer materials for electronic components. She has combined her creativity and technical skills to develop a unique technology for producing high thermal conductivity materials with better performance than the market has seen to date. |
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Mary | K | Lazarus | Franklin | Religion and Community Services | 1985 | Get Biography
For more than 40 years, Mary K. Lazarus has demonstrated her commitment to Franklin County and Ohio as an active community volunteer. She began her career with extensive service to the League of Women Voters and has continued to champion such causes as consumer rights, child safety, education, services to women and ethics in government. |
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Katherine | S | LeVeque | Franklin | Business and Labor | 1986 | Get Biography
As one of Ohio's leading businesswomen, Katherine S. LeVeque is Chief Executive Officer of LeVeque Enterprises in Columbus and is known for her commitment to the growth and enhancement of Ohio's capital city. |
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Barbara | Lee | Athens | Education | 1998 | Get Biography
Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee, dean of the Ohio University of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-COM), is the first African-American woman to head a medical college in the United States and the first woman dean of a college of osteopathic medicine. |
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Rebecca | J | Lee | Pickaway | Government and Military Service | 2010 | Get Biography
Rebecca Lee is the Executive Director of the Pickaway County Veteran Service Commission. She is a disabled United States Marine Corps' Veteran. Already accredited as a National and County Veteran Service Officer, she graduated with the first class of five as a Certified Veterans' Advocated in 2009. |
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Emily | L | Leedy | Franklin | Education | 1979 | Get Biography
A Jackson native, Emily L. Leedy has dedicated more than 35 years of service in education, business and government. She began her educational career in the Ross County, Ohio public schools and has taught at all levels beginning with elementary and secondary schools and later at both undergraduate and graduate levels. During her career as an educator, she served as a supervisor of student teachers, a visiting teacher, professor, dean, administrator, workshop consultant and educational consultant. |
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Jih | Lei | Cuyahoga | Math, Science and Health Services | 2008 | Get Biography
Director of the Research and Technology at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Jih-Fen Lei is an accomplished researcher leading more than 750 staff in conducting advanced research and technology development in propulsion, power, communication, high-temperature materials and structures, microgravity research, instrumentation and controls, nanotechnology and biotechnology. |
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Lois | Lenski | Shelby | Arts, Music and Journalism | 2003 | Get Biography
Author Lois Lenski was born in Springfield Ohio in 1893. During her life, Lenski illustrated and authored over 80 titles. |
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Alice Raful | Lev | Mahoning | Government and Military Service | 1988 | Get Biography
Alice Lev's lifelong commitment to social justice has benefitted disadvantaged persons, women and minorities on the national, state and local levels. She was a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission Advisory Board and helped establish the Minority Business Division of the Ohio Department of Development. |
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Maxine | Levin | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 2001 | Get Biography
Maxine has been involved in the mental health field since she volunteered with the Red Cross at Crile General Hospital during World War II. After the war, Maxine, with others, bought the Ingleside Nursery on Euclid Avenue and turned it into the Woodruff Psychiatric Hospital, a 100-bed facility. Maxine also pioneered "Oasis," a program of activities for the elderly and 'ix Chimneys," a home and training center for developmentally disabled adults. |
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Fannie | M | Lewis | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 1996 | Get Biography
Fannie M. Lewis migrated to Cleveland more than thirty years ago in search of a better life than her family had in Memphis, Tennessee. Instead, she found herself in what was at that time one of Cleveland's worst communities, Hough. |
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Cathy Monroe | Lewis | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 2002 | Get Biography
Catharine M. Lewis was destined for a career in health care. At the age of 40, this mother of four decided to become a paramedic. At that time, she didn't know she would move beyond the ambulance bay into a powerful leadership position in one of America's premier medical and philanthropic communities. |
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Sylvia | Lewis | Summit | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1995 | Get Biography
Sylvia Lewis is the past national president of NA'AMAT USA (an acronym meaning "Movement of Working Women and Volunteers"), the largest Jewish women's organization in the world. With chapters in 10 countries, NA'AMAT fights for women's rights, civil rights, child welfare and social justice in Israel and in the United States. Ms. Lewis has been a delegate to the World Zionist Congress in Israel four times. |
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Maya Ying | Lin | Athens | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1990 | Get Biography
Maya Lin's sculptures, earthworks, memorials and architectural projects have touched people in a way unprecedented in contemporary art. Her wide range of works have been "proposing ways of thinking and imagining that resist categories, genres and borders" (Michael Brenson, art critic). |
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Sister Nancy | Linenkugel | Erie | Math, Science and Health Services | 1999 | Get Biography
From 1986-2001, Sister Nancy Linenkugel served in Sandusky, Ohio as president and CEO of Providence Hospital, a 270-bed nonprofit, general community hospital sponsored by her order, the Sisters of St. Francis, Sylvania, Ohio. She also served as president and CEO of Providence Health System from 1987-2001, an umbrella corporation that united the hospital, a nursing home, an assisted living facility, a foundation and several other subsidiaries. Linenkugel played an integral role in founding the system in 1987 and leading its development over the years. She was the last religious sister to serve as CEO of an Ohio hospital. |
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Irene | Long | Cuyahoga | Math, Science and Health Services | 2001 | Get Biography
As the Chief Medical Officer, at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Dr. Irene Long and her team are personally involved with the launch and recovery of every Space Shuttle mission. She directs medical support activities for space shuttle launch and landing activities, including services to astronauts, families, senior management and the general public. She has made major contributions to NASA's employee development, educational outreach and community service activities. |
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Tami | Longaberger | Licking | Business and Labor | 1995 | Get Biography
Tami Longaberger is President and CEO of The Longaberger Company, a family-owned national direct-selling company founded by Tami's father, Dave Longaberger, in 1973. The company is recognized as one of the 500 largest privately held companies in the U.S. by Forbes Magazine and is the premier maker of handcrafted baskets in the United States. The Longaberger Company also was recognized as the 18th largest woman-owned company in the U.S. by Working Woman Magazine. |
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Ruth | Lyons | Hamilton | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1979 | Get Biography
Ruth Lyons was a television pioneer. She broke ground as host of The 50-50 Club, a popular, first if its kind, talk-variety show in 1949. Lyons attracted national celebrities to the program and at one time there was a three-year waiting list for tickets. |
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Martha | MacDonell | Allen | Religion and Community Services | 2001 | Get Biography
Martha MacDonell is a living example of the difference one person can make. She is a community advocate and change agent, enriching education, promoting cultural understanding and respect for diversity. |
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Geraldine | Macelwane | Lucas | Law | 1993 | Get Biography
Geraldine Macelwane was born in Detroit to the children of Irish emigrants. Her family moved to Toledo in 1924, where she graduated from Central Catholic High School two years later. Working full time as a freight clerk and stenographer for the Wabash Railroad, Macelwane studied law at night. She was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1932, receiving her law degree from the University of Toledo and a liberal arts degree from DeSales College shortly thereafter. |
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Audrey | Mackiewicz | Erie | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1998 | Get Biography
Audrey Mackiewicz's accomplishments as a female veteran, community leader and journalist make her outstanding among women today. Because she paved the way and served as a role model, she influenced the destiny of countless young women. |
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Anne Variano | Macko | Cuyahoga | Business and Labor | 1990 | Get Biography
Anne Variano Macko has been a staunch unionist for more than fifty years. Her involvement with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) began in the 1940s when she was a telephone operator with the Ohio Bell Telephone Company. Six months after joining Ohio Bell, she became a union steward of CWA Local 4340. |
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Elizabeth | S. | Magee | Cuyahoga | Business and Labor | 2008 | Get Biography
Elizabeth Stewart Magee was an advocate of women and children's rights in the workforce. Her social and political activism helped lay the foundation for Ohio's Unemployment Insurance program. |
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Joyce 'nowfeather" | Mahaney | Lucas | Religion and Community Services | 2007 | Get Biography
Joyce "Snowfeather" Mahaney has left a legacy in Ohio and the Midwest for the preservation of Native American culture. She dedicated her life to teaching Native Americans and non-Native Americans the importance of Native American heritage. |
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Carolyn | Mahoney | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 1989 | Get Biography
Dr. Carolyn R. Mahoney has made outstanding contributions in the area of mathematics education. She was the 25th black woman in the history of the United States to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematics. Mahoney earned her B.S. at Sienna College in Memphis, Tennessee. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D., respectively, in 1972 and 1983 from The Ohio State University. |
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Margaret | A | Mahoney | Cuyahoga | Education | 1978 | Get Biography
A lawyer and a resident of Cleveland Heights, Margaret A. Mahoney held numerous public offices throughout her career. |
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Farah | B | Majidzadeh | Franklin | Business and Labor | 2000 | Get Biography
Farah B. Majidzadeh, CEO and Chairperson of Resource International (RI) Inc. has been at the helm of her firm since 1973, which she founded in her basement to market technology applications for the road building industry. Under her leadership, RI has grown to one of Ohio's top 10 engineering, construction management, and technology firms with multi-Ohio and international offices serving building and infrastructure projects valued at more than $1 billion annually. |
Barbara | A | Mandel | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 1985 | Get Biography
Barbara A. Mandel served two terms as President of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), the oldest Jewish women's organization in the country. |
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Virginia | Manning | Erie | Business and Labor | 2009 | Get Biography
The late Virginia Manning successfully challenged the "protectionist" laws of Ohio with regard to working women, which were in violation of Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964. |
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Norma | Marcere | Stark | Education | 1985 | Get Biography
Norma Marcere, pioneer feminist and educator, is unquestionably recognized as one of the leaders of the African American Community of Stark County. A Canton native, Marcere attended Kent State Normal College where she earned her Teaching Diploma. As teacher, counselor, psychologist and accomplished author, Dr. Norma Marcere has dedicated her life to excellence through education. |
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Marie Barrett | Marsh | Trumbull | Government and Military Service | 1999 | Get Biography
During the 1930s, Marie Barrett Marsh learned to fly through the Civilian Pilot Training Program while in college. She became one of only six women in the country at that time to complete the Advanced Training Program. |
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Ada | M | Martin | Franklin | Religion and Community Services | 2000 | Get Biography
Ada Martin, known to many as "Angel," has saved many lives, both literally and figuratively. She and her husband, Harold, were legendary throughout Columbus for their nonprofit organization "Take It to the Streets." Take It to the Streets, a grassroots, community-based organization, is dedicated to helping the homeless, women with children, unruly teens, the needy, and chemically dependent individuals. |
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Sister Mary Andrew | Matesich | Franklin | Education | 2001 | Get Biography
Sister Mary Andrew is a premier educator, administrator and advocate who has devoted her life to improving the lives of others. In 1978, at the age of 39, she became president of Ohio Dominican College and has successfully filled the college's mission of serving disadvantaged and underserved populations. Under Sister Mary Andrew's tenure, college enrollment has grown 144%. |
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Jacquelyn | MayerTownsend | Erie | Math, Science and Health Services | 1997 | Get Biography
Jacquelyn Mayer Townsend, a motivational and inspirational speaker who lives in Sandusky has dedicated her life to educating the public, government and the health care industry about strokes. She is a founding member of the National Stroke Association based in Englewood, Colorado and served on its board of directors from 1984 - 2000. |
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Helen Grace | McClelland | Columbiana | Government and Military Service | 1978 | Get Biography
Miss Helen G. McClelland was one of only three women ever to be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, our nation's second-highest combat award, which she received for her valorous service as a member of the Army Nurse Corps during World War I. Her extraordinary heroism occurred when she and Beatrice MacDonald were dispatched as part of an American surgical team to the British Front. MacDonald became the first American nurse wounded in WWI. McClelland exposed herself to great personal danger in order to provide life-saving emergency medical treatment to her tentmate. She also received England's Royal Red Cross, First Class Award. |
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Nina | I | McClelland, Ph.D. | Lucas | Math, Science and Health Services | 2010 | Get Biography
Dr. Nina McClelland is currently the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at The University of Toledo and was recently appointed to the position of Interim Dean of the University's new School of Solar & Advanced Renewable Energy. |
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Anne O'Hare | McCormick | Franklin | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1993 | Get Biography
Anne O'Hare McCormick was raised in Columbus, where she graduated from Saint Mary of the Springs Academy (now Ohio Dominican College). The family moved to Cleveland, where Ann embarked on a career in journalism with the Catholic Universe Bulletin. |
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Rubie | J | McCullough | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 1992 | Get Biography
Rubie J. McCullough began her career as a public school teacher in Raleigh, North Carolina. After moving to Cleveland in 1945, she worked for the Phillis Wheatley Association and later went on to become the founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Community Services Center where she worked until her retirement. |
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Florence | Melton | Franklin | Business and Labor | 1994 | Get Biography
Florence Zacks Melton first gained acclaim as the inventor of removable, washable shoulder pads. She also introduced a line of chair pads, adjustable car seat covers and neck pillows. In 1946, she revolutionized the footwear industry by introducing the use of foam in footwear. She founded the R. G. Barry Corporation with her invention and the company is currently the largest manufacturer of foam-soled slippers in the world. Melton continues to serve the company as a consultant for product development and design. |
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Agnes | S | Merritt | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 1978 | Get Biography
Agnes S. Merritt has increased promotional opportunities for women by opening educational facilities and programs to them and encouraging educational development by sponsoring participation by women and men. |
Lucille | Middleton | Champaign | Education | 1985 | Get Biography
Dedicated to improving educational opportunities and the quality of life for all citizens, Lucille Middleton of Cable established the first classes for developmentally disabled children in Champaign County in 1953. |
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Ruth | R | Miller | Cuyahoga | Math, Science and Health Services | 1986 | Get Biography
As the first woman health director for the city of Cleveland, Ruth Ratner Miller developed many highly successful health awareness programs, including the first city wide pap smear and breast examination targeted at poor women, and the "Down with High Blood Pressure" campaign in which citizens could have their blood pressure checked at numerous public places in the Cleveland area. |
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Jerrie | L | Mock | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 1979 | Get Biography
Jerrie Mock has accomplished many aviation firsts. In 1964, she became the first woman to fly solo around the world. The "flying housewife" and later known as the "flying grandmother" was also the first female and the first American to win the Louis Bleriot Medal for aviation, the world's highest award for overtaking an existing record in a light plane - under 1,000 kilos (2,200 pounds). |
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Betty | D | Montgomery | Wood | Government and Military Service | 1996 | Get Biography
In January 1995, Betty D. Montgomery was sworn in as Ohio's first woman Attorney General. She is Ohio's 45th Attorney General and was re-elected to a second four-year term in November 1998. A former criminal prosecutor and state senator, Montgomery has spent her entire career protecting Ohio's most vulnerable citizens by prosecuting criminals, helping victims, protecting consumers, reshaping Ohio law, and supporting local law enforcement across the state. |
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Donna | Moon | Montgomery | Business and Labor | 1995 | Get Biography
Donna B. Moon devoted her entire professional career to improving the quality of life for the residents of Montgomery County. During her nine years on the Kettering School Board, Ms. Moon was elected vice president in 1978 and 1981 and president in 1979, 1982 and 1983. |
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Martha | C | Moore | Guernsey | Government and Military Service | 1991 | Get Biography
Long before many women were considering politics, Cambridge native Martha Moore devoted much of her volunteer time to getting people involved in choosing their elected officials. While pursuing a career in higher education, Moore was an active volunteer with the Ohio Republican Party. She has been an excellent role model for women in politics and has nurtured and encourage many women to serve in elected public or political party positions. |
Lana | Z | Moresky | Cuyahoga | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 2010 | Get Biography
Lana Z. Moresky has worked continually and passionately for the advancement of women and the pursuit of social justice her entire adult life |
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Toni | Morrison | Lorain | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1982 | Get Biography
Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford) was born into a working class family in Lorain, Ohio. She was educated at Howard and Cornell Universities and obtained her Masters degree from Cornell in 1955. |
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Ellen | Mosley-Thompson | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 2003 | Get Biography
Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Professor of Geography and Research Scientist with Byrd Polar Research Center of The Ohio State University, is an eminent researcher addressing critical environmental issues facing our world. |
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Helen | F. | Moss | Cuyahoga | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 2009 | Get Biography
As a young housewife and mother, Moss attended college when the Government offered student loans in 1966. She graduated summa cum laude and first in her class from the University of Akron in 1970 at the age of 34 and promptly founded the Akron chapter of the National Organization for Women the very next year. |
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Alicia | Mott | Wood | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1990 | Get Biography
Bowling Green's Alicia G. Fernandez is an advocate for the educational and economic advancement of Ohio's Hispanic community. She is involved with a number of agencies to help migrant and seasonal farmworkers, Hispanics and women. After 17 years of volunteer service to this community, Alicia became director of Ohio Farmworker Opportunities, now known as Rural Opportunities, Inc. She worked to increase training and employment opportunities for the rural poor and especially for farmworkers seeking a more economically stable life for themselves and their families. |
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Helen | Mulholland | Franklin | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1985 | Get Biography
Helen Warner Mulholland of Worthington dedicated her life to improving the status of women throughout Ohio and across the nation. |
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Gratia | Murphy | Mahoning | Education | 1995 | Get Biography
Long-time Youngstown State University (YSU) professor Gratia Murphy earned a national reputation for teaching excellence, most particularly as a teacher of teachers of writing. Dr. Murphy was routinely invited to present day-long workshops at the National Council of Teachers of English and College Composition and Communications annual conferences, the most prestigious national conferences for writing teachers. |
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Linda | Myers | Franklin | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1989 | Get Biography
Dr. Linda James Myers has contributed greatly to Ohio through her work with human behavior. While teaching and conducting research at The Ohio State University, Dr. Myers developed a theory of human behavior based on feminine principles. Her optimal theory surpassed the conceptual limits of patriarchal thinking and embraces a peace and unity perspective that cuts across the disciplines of psychology, history, physical science, religion and philosophy. Dr. Myers has authored a book entitled Understanding Afrocentric World View which articulates her theory of human behavior as well as numerous articles including "A Therapeutic Model for Transcending Oppression: A Black Feminist Perspective." |
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Amelia | Nava | Seneca | Religion and Community Services | 1986 | Get Biography
Amelia Nava has dedicated her life to improving the living condition of an often silent and underprivileged community - the migrant farmworker. Through her personal involvement with and active contributions to over twelve organizations and committees, she has provided numerous migrant farmworkers and Mexican-American settleouts with much needed financial, nutritional, health and family planning services. She has also educated the public as to the needs, values and present situation of the Ohio migrant farmworker. |
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Cathy | D | Nelson | Franklin | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 2003 | Get Biography
Cathy Nelson honors Ohio's past, educates the present, and is influencing the future as the Founder and President Emeritus of The Friends of Freedom Society. |
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Mary Louise | Nemeth | Cuyahoga | Business and Labor | 1980 | Get Biography
Mary Louise Nemeth retired in 1995 after nearly forty years in the field of business publishing and industrial advertising. |
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Andre | Norton | Cuyahoga | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1981 | Get Biography
Alice Mary Norton began writing fiction in her teens. She wrote short stories as an editor of her school paper at Collingwood High School in Cleveland. It was at the school where she wrote her first book Ralestone Luck. It was published as her second book in 1938 after The Prince Commands, which was published in 1934. |
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Karen | Nussbaum | Cuyahoga | Business and Labor | 1984 | Get Biography
Karen Nussbaum, the first director of the Working Women' Department of the AFL-CIO, brings her lifetime commitment to working women into the heart of the labor movement and back out into workplaces and communities around the country. |
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Lucille | Nussdorfer | Tuscarawas | Religion and Community Services | 1994 | Get Biography
In 1941, Dennison's Lucille Nussdorfer raised $200 to begin a homefront war effort that resulted in one of the largest canteens for service men and women in the United States. More than 1.3 million individuals received free sandwiches, cookies and coffee as they passed through the Dennison Railroad Depot Canteen on their way to war in Europe, or the South Pacific from 1942 until 1946. |
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Ann | L | O'Rourke | Franklin | Religion and Community Services | 1997 | Get Biography
Ann L. O'Rourke, former finance director and financial consultant to the 23-county Catholic Diocese of Columbus, was involved with the education of youth in eleven secondary and forty-five elementary schools and with the Legacy of Catholic Learning, the origin of the Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus, which helps support diocesan and inner-city schools. |
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Mary Rose | Oakar | Cuyahoga | Government and Military Service | 1984 | Get Biography
Mary Rose Oakar, Ohio Democrat, began her political career in 1973 on the Cleveland City Council. She was first Democratic woman in Ohio elected to the United States Congress. She is currently serving in the Ohio House of Representatives. |
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Nancy | C | Oakley | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 1992 | Get Biography
In 1974, acting as an advocate for Ohio' adult nonreaders, Nancy Oakley launched Project: LEARN. |
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Annie | Oakley | Darke | Sports and Athletics | 1980 | Get Biography
The American sharpshooter, Annie Oakley, was born Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses, in Patterson, Ohio. She took up shooting at the age of six, often using her skills with a rifle to capture wild game for the family dinner table. By the time Oakley was 21, she was ready to challenge Sells Brothers Circus marksman Frank Butler, to a pigeon shoot. Oakley defeated her opponent and married him less than a year later. Oakley' special skill was stunt shooting: she could shoot a playing card in half or from a distance of ninety feet, hit a dime in mid-air. |
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Rena | Olshansky | Cuyahoga | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1993 | Get Biography
An award-winning broadcaster, author, lecturer, and civic activist, Rena Blumberg Olshansky' work as a Community Relations Director and Radio Interviewer at WDOK-FM and WRMR-AM has made her an important asset to the city of Cleveland. She is the CEO of Rainmaker, Inc., a corporate advisory organization in the areas of media, business, politics and health. |
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Martha Potter | Otto | Knox | Math, Science and Health Services | 2010 | Get Biography
Martha Potter Otto is a native of Central Ohio and earned a Master of Arts degree in anthropology from the Ohio State University. She spent her entire professional career at the Ohio Historical Society (OHS), beginning as a part-time student assistant in 1961 and concluding as Senior Curator of Archaeology upon her retirement in 2009. |
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Darlene | M | Owens | Cuyahoga | Business and Labor | 1991 | Get Biography
Darlene M. Owens overcame the barriers of racism and sexism to become the first woman pipe fitter in Ohio. |
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Kathy | Palasics | Cuyahoga | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1998 | Get Biography
Kathy Kapossy-Palasics is a founding member of the Nationality Broadcasters Association, which represents the coalition of nationality broadcasters at WCPN and has served as its president since 1995. |
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Rose | L | Papier | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 1978 | Get Biography
Rose L. Papier was a pioneer gerontologist framing the problems and needs of senior citizens. She served as Research Director for the Ohio Commission on Aging and became Ohio' first Director of the Ohio Administration on Aging. |
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Marjorie | B | Parham | Hamilton | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1999 | Get Biography
Marjorie B. Parham has made a positive difference in Ohio by giving the African-American community two assets that all oppressed groups need to survive and thrive: leadership and a voice. She provided those tools through two community newspapers, The Cincinnati Herald and The Dayton Tribune. |
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Harriet | Parker | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 1992 | Get Biography
As a student geneticist at The Ohio State University, Harriet Hyman Parker spent the summer of 1932 trying to tease a chromosome from a fish egg. The first Ph.D. student of Dr. Laurence H. Snyder, "the father of human genetics," Dr. Parker' research proved that the heredity of human blood groups was established as early as three months after conception and that the A', B', O', M' and N' were present at birth. This made it possible to safely transfuse jaundiced newborns, news of which was reported worldwide. It also provided a means to determine when a man was not the father of a child, and Dr. Parker played a pivotal role in drafting and passing legislation which made blood group typing permissible as evidence in Ohio. |
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Helen | H | Peterson | Franklin | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1991 | Get Biography
A lifelong advocate for social justice, Helen H. Peterson began her career of volunteer service with the YWCA in 1928. During the decades that followed, she continued to advocate for a discrimination-free workplace and fair wages for women and minorities. As chair of the Industrial Women and Girls Committee, Helen helped organize the YWCA' School of Leisure Time Activities which provided free classes for those suffering the effects of the Depression. She secured Work Progress Administration funds and community support to establish a local Household Training Center, which certified program participants and enabled them to command a fairer wage and greater respect in the workplace. |
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Emma | Phaler | Franklin | Sports and Athletics | 1979 | Get Biography
Through devoted service and leadership, Emma Phaler has contributed greatly to the development of the Women' International Bowling Congress (WIBC). Membership for the WIBC grew from 5,357 in 28 cities to 2.7 million in over 2,800 cities in the United States, Canada and many foreign countries during her 38 years as Executive Secretary. |
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Edna | D | Pincham | Mahoning | Religion and Community Services | 1993 | Get Biography
Edna D. Pincham (93) |
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Catherine | Pinkerton | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 1984 | Get Biography
Catherine Pinkerton CSJ, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph, Cleveland, is a lobbyist at the federal level with NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby. |
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Martha | J | Pituch | Lucas | Math, Science and Health Services | 1991 | Get Biography
Martha J. Pituch (91) |
Minnie | R | Player | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 1983 | Get Biography
Minnie Player's life took her from rural Alabama to her role as the leading spokesperson for the poor in Ohio as the leader of Cleveland's Welfare Rights Organization. Without formal education, she spoke eloquently and forcefully for the poor, for women and for minorities throughout Ohio. |
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Willa | B | Player | Summit | Education | 1984 | Get Biography
Willa B. Player (84) |
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Maxine | Plummer | Jackson | Religion and Community Services | 1993 | Get Biography
Maxine Stephenson Plummer is a nationally recognized leader in government and volunteerism. For more than three decades, this Jackson County native has worked to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of a wide variety of health and human services to all citizens of Ohio, but most especially to the residents of her beloved Appalachia. |
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Yvonne | Pointer | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 1991 | Get Biography
Since the tragic murder of her daughter Gloria, Yvonne Pointer has worked tirelessly toward safer communities in and out of the city of Cleveland. |
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Lorle | Porter | Knox | Education | 2000 | Get Biography
Lorle Porter has prevented many of Ohio' historical figures from fading quietly into oblivion. Her medieval European history training, which emphasized the "building blocks" of societies from the bottom up, gave her a unique perspective on Ohio' local history. For 30 years she has given her time to help local historical and genealogical groups "fill in the blanks" and in fitting their stories into the broader scheme of American and world history. |
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Jennie | Porter | Hamilton | Education | 1989 | Get Biography
Jennie Davis Porter began her career as a teacher in 1897 and dedicated her life to educating Cincinnati' black youth. After founding a private kindergarten and a summer school for black children, this daughter of a former slave enrolled in the University of Cincinnati' (UC), College of Education at the age of 42. She was the first black individual to receive a Ph.D. from that institution in 1928. |
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Susan | L | Porter | Allen | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1992 | Get Biography
American music historian and musicologist Susan L. Porter, Ph.D., is a nationally recognized authority on late 18th and early 19th century American musical theatre, music education, folk music and local music history. She has published and lectured extensively on these topics, both in this country and abroad. An accomplished musician herself, Dr. Porter is one of the founders and principle organizer for the Great Black Swamp Dulcimer Festival, one of the largest and most respected in the country. Held each April since 1979, the Festival features prominent artists performing on the mountain and hammered dulcimer, educational workshops and displays. She also organized the Great Black Swamp Folk Music Tours of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in 1987 and again in 1990. Dr. Porter has served on the Sonneck Society for American Music Board of Trustees and since 1987 she has edited The Sonneck Society Bulletin. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Antiquity Society and the American Music Research Center. Since coming to The Ohio State University' Lima Campus in 1977, Dr. Porter has developed a number of courses designed to highlight and preserve Ohio' rich musical heritage. She teaches courses in Music in the United States, Ethnic Music in the United States and Music in Ohio, which include such Ohio topics as canal songs, cities (Lima and Cleveland), the Underground Railroad and the Abolitionists and music of Ohio' religious and immigrant groups (Shakers, German and Welsh settlers). She is the first woman to have been promoted to the position of Professor at the Lima Campus. |
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Diane | W | Poulton | Franklin | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1989 | Get Biography
Diane W. Poulton was a dedicated and outspoken lifetime advocate for the rights of women, who focused on changes in laws to prohibit discrimination, worked for the implementation and enforcement of those laws and provided information and resources to educate the citizens of Ohio with regard to them. |
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Reverend Elizabeth | Powell | Mahoning | Religion and Community Services | 2001 | Get Biography
Reverend Mother Elizabeth Powell came to Youngstown, Ohio in 1925. Her endless energy and an undying passion to minister to the needs of others keeps Rev. Powell dedicated to the residents in that city. In 1962, she founded the World Fellowship Interdenominational Church, which she still pastors today at age 99. Under opposition from her colleagues, she became the first woman to be ordained as a credentialed Baptist Minister. |
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Renee | Powell | Stark | Sports and Athletics | 1989 | Get Biography
Renee Powell is the second of only three African American women to ever play on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour in its fifty year history. Powell is the only African American women to become a Professional Class A member of both the LPGA and PGA of America. |
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Arline Webb | M | Pratt | Stark | Religion and Community Services | 1986 | Get Biography
Aboard a Cunard liner, the H.M.S. Corinthia, M. Arline Webb Pratt expressed her dismay to her traveling companion that they could not see the Statue of Liberty in the dark as they steamed out of New York Harbor. |
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Deborah | Pryce | Franklin | Government and Military Service | 2001 | Get Biography
Deborah Pryce was elected to Congress in 1992. She has risen to become a member of the congressional leadership and the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. House of Representatives. |
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Anastasia Ann | N | Przelomski | Mahoning | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1986 | Get Biography
Ann Przelomski joined the Youngstown Vindicator in 1942 as a summer temporary reporter. She retired more than forty years later. She served as an assistant city editor, city editor and became managing editor in 1976. She was a member of Associated Press Managing Editors Association, UPI Ohio Editors Association and Ohio Society of Newspaper Editors. Przelomski was the first female city editor at the Vindicator and one of the first female managing editors on a daily newspaper in the United States. |
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Virginia | Purdy | Adams | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1986 | Get Biography
Virginia Purdy is a strong role model and an inspiration for current and future generations of Ohio women to strive for excellence. Actively involved in the Adams and Brown County community, she applied for a construction permit and built her own radio station - which went on the air in 1981 - WRAC-FM. |
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Margaret Diane | Quinn | Muskingum | Government and Military Service | 1998 | Get Biography
Zanesville Chief of Police Margaret Diane Quinn is a woman of "firsts" in many areas of Zanesville law enforcement, including becoming the first female chief of a large municipal department in the State of Ohio. |
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Kasturi | V. | Rajadhyaksha | Franklin | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 2008 | Get Biography
Dr. Kasturi Rajadhyaksha (Dr. Raja) has worked in maternal and child health, family planning and the empowerment of women for 63 years in the United States and India as well as other countries. |
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Lottie | Randolph | Perry | Math, Science and Health Services | 1978 | Get Biography
A firm believer in the basic fundamentals of life, Lottie Randolph determined to put this belief into practice as a wife and mother which helped her earn the degree of Master Farm Homemaker. |
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Rachel | Redinger | Tuscarawas | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1979 | Get Biography
Rachel Bair Redinger of Dover, Ohio was an active participant in many travel and theatric organizations and historic societies, but is best known as the founder of the Ohio Outdoor Historical Drama Association, Inc. She was responsible for the production, Trumpet in the Land, Ohio's first outdoor drama. The story about Schoenbrunn village which debuted in July, 1970 has been performed each summer since. |
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Jane | Reece | Montgomery | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1994 | Get Biography
Dayton' Jane Reece is an internationally recognized leader in the establishment of photography as a fine art form through her innovative use of papers, methods of printing and use of camera focus. She opened her first studio in 1904 and always worked in a creative and highly individualistic manner. Reece was renowned for photographic silhouettes which she called Camera Cameos. By the 1920' she traveled extensively in the United States and abroad, sought after by prominent persons due to the quality of her work, always bringing out the personality and expressions of the sitter. |
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Mary | A | Regula | Stark | Religion and Community Services | 1999 | Get Biography
In the mid 1960s, Mary Regula was asked to serve as a Lincoln Day speaker in the absence of her husband, Senator Regula. She chose to speak about Mary Todd Lincoln rather than Abraham Lincoln, but quickly realized that the country lacked appropriate resources detailing the lives and contributions of the nation's first ladies. This frustration motivated Regula to found the National First Ladies' Library, dedicated in June 1998. |
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Jean | Reilly | Franklin | Religion and Community Services | 1993 | Get Biography
Jean Waid Reilly learned the values of family, education and service from her parents. A Columbus native, she held positions of leadership throughout high school and her undergraduate years at The Ohio State University, where she earned a master' degree in guidance and counseling. |
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Alice Robie | Resnick | Lucas | Government and Military Service | 1995 | Get Biography
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Alice Robie Resnick has become a role model and mentor for women across the state. Only the fourth woman elected to statewide office, Justice Resnick became the second woman elected to the Supreme Court of Ohio in 1988. She was re-elected in both 1994 and 2000. |
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Judith | Resnik | Summit | Math, Science and Health Services | 1984 | Get Biography
The daughter of an optometrist, Judith Resnik was able to read and do arithmetic when she entered school and enjoyed academic challenges throughout her life. Always at the top of whatever she did, Judith was accomplished at the piano and knew how to complete electrical repairs and build simple machines. |
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Emma Ann | Reynolds | Ross | Math, Science and Health Services | 1994 | Get Biography
Emma Reynolds was born near Frankfort in 1862. She began her early years as a school teacher, taking a three-year course of study at Wilberforce. Reynolds, who had been refused enrollment in Chicago's School of Nursing because of her race, was instrumental in establishing the first interracial hospital nursing program at Provident Hospital in Chicago. In 1892, she became one the of the first two graduates of the 18-month nursing program. Furthering her education, she became the first African American woman to earn a doctor of medicine degree from Northwestern University School of Medicine. |
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Helen | Rice | Lorain | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1992 | Get Biography
Known as the "Poet Laureate of Greeting Card Verse," Helen Steiner Rice was a woman ahead of her time. Born in Lorain in 1900, her plans for a career in law were interrupted by the untimely death of her father. Joining the Lorain Electric Light and Power Company, her enthusiasm and ingenuity won accolades throughout the public service industry. She traveled across the United States emphasizing women' contributions to the industry in speeches to local business and civic groups and arguing eloquently for the hiring and promotion of women workers. She opened her own Lecture Service in 1927. |
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Pauline | S | Riel | Morrow | Education | 1993 | Get Biography
Pauline S. Riel of Marengo has devoted her life to helping others, both as a professional educator and as a volunteer with numerous community organizations. She served 20 years as an elementary school principal for the Mt. Vernon schools and spent the preceding 20 years as a classroom teacher. |
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Viola Startzman | Robertson | Wayne | Math, Science and Health Services | 2002 | Get Biography
The young daughter of a harness maker in a small southeastern Ohio town always knew she wanted to be a doctor. Today, most call Viola Startzman Robertson "Dr. Vi." |
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Linda | Rocker Sogg | Cuyahoga | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1988 | Get Biography
As a lifelong advocate for social justice, Linda Rocker has improved the lives of countless people in the Cleveland area. |
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Beryl | E | Rothschild | Cuyahoga | Government and Military Service | 1997 | Get Biography
Beryl E. Rothschild was the first woman elected to the University Heights City Council and the first woman Mayor of University Heights. Her long-time political service to her community is abundantly clear. She is now serving her 24th year as Mayor, becoming the longest serving female Mayor in Cuyahoga County. |
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Lee Lenore | Rubin | Athens | Religion and Community Services | 1999 | Get Biography
In 1998, Lee Rubin received the first annual Advocate of the Year award from the Ohio Association of Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Metal Health Services Boards. The award, given 'for her tireless leadership on behalf of caring communities and her unflagging devotion to the cause of human justice" is now named the Lee Rubin Advocate of the Year award in her honor. |
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Virginia | J | Ruehlmann | Hamilton | Religion and Community Services | 1991 | Get Biography
Virginia Ruehlmann has been described as "one of the brightest jewels" in the Queen City' crown. A former first lady of Cincinnati, Mrs. Ruehlmann has devoted much of her personal and professional life to helping those less fortunate. |
Elizabeth | S | Ruppert, M.D. | Lucas | Math, Science and Health Services | 2010 | Get Biography
After reading the biography of Elizabeth Blackwell, MD for a fourth grade book report in Cleveland, Elizabeth knew she wanted to become a doctor. In 1957, Libby was awarded a B.A. from Tulane University and came back to Ohio as a first-year medical student. Interning in Chicago at Rush Presbyterian, she and her husband, George (Dick) returned to Ohio where she worked at Children's Hospital. |
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Judith | S. | Rycus | Franklin | Religion and Community Services | 2009 | Get Biography
For the past 35 years, Dr. Judith Rycus has been an organizational consultant, a training manager, a trainer, and an advocate on behalf of physically abused, neglected, and sexually abused children and their families. |
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Julie | Salamon | Adams | Arts, Music and Journalism | 2008 | Get Biography
Raised in Seaman, Ohio, Julie Salamon is a highly esteemed author and journalist. She worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and then became a movie critic and weekly columnist. She has worked as a culture writer on the New York Times. |
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Lanna | V | Samaniego | Mercer | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 2000 | Get Biography
For more than 23 years, V. Lanna Samaniego has worked to improve the lifestyles of Ohio's Native American population through education, employment, and advocacy. In 1979 she became associated with North American Indian Cultural Center Inc. (NAICC) as a program coordinator for the Celina Indian Center and northwestern Ohio. She was appointed NAICC executive director in 1999. |
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Mother Mary Adelaide | Sandusky | Lucas | Religion and Community Services | 2009 | Get Biography
Mother Mary Adelaide Sandusky was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 10, 1874 and journeyed to Minnesota to become a member of the Rochester Franciscan order. She came to Sylvania, Ohio as the leader of a new group of Franciscans that was established in 1916. |
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Helen | Santmyer | Greene | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1984 | Get Biography
Helen Santmyer began to write a book, ...And Ladies of the Club in 1929. The book was a 1,344 novel about life in small-town Ohio and written entirely in longhand in a bookkeeper' ledger. The book took fifty years to write because she .."could only write part time. I always had to earn a living." It was first published by Ohio State University Press in 1982, which had previously printed Miss Santmyer' Ohio Town in 1963. |
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Ludel | B | Sauvageot | Summit | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1990 | Get Biography
Ludel Sauvageot was a pioneer in the field of hospital public relations and forever changed the women' role in the field. |
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Alice | Schille | Franklin | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1992 | Get Biography
Considered one of America' foremost women watercolorists, Columbus native Alice Schille earned international recognition, including top prizes from arts institutions in San Francisco, New York, Washington and Chicago, for her magnificent painting of street scenes, women and children. Graduating from the Columbus Art School (which later became the Columbus College of Art and Design) at the top of her class in 1893, Miss Schille continued her studies in New York and Paris. |
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Lauretta | Schimmoler | Crawford | Math, Science and Health Services | 1985 | Get Biography
The first woman to establish and manage an airport, Lauretta Schimmoler founded the Port Bucyrus Municipal Airport in 1929. Born in Fort Jennings, this important promoter of early aviation development was one of the first members of the 99s, a national organization of licensed women pilots. |
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Rozella | May | Schlotfeldt | Cuyahoga | Math, Science and Health Services | 2007 | Get Biography
Rozella May Schlotfeldt, Dean Emerita, Professor Emerita, and Honorary Alumna of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University, was a remarkable woman, a world-wide nursing icon, visionary leader and tireless champion of excellence in nursing. |
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Marge | Schott | Hamilton | Business and Labor | 1985 | Get Biography
Margaret "Marge" Schott's achievements include many firsts. Schott is the First Lady of Cincinnati baseball, serving as the former President and Chief Executive Office of professional baseball's oldest franchise. The Reds drew more than 16 million fans to Riverfront in her eight years as the club's principal owner. She built a winning team and kept ticket prices among the lowest in the major leagues. |
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Josephine | L | Schwarz | Montgomery | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1991 | Get Biography
Josephine Schwarz, a grande dame of the ballet, is nationally acclaimed as one of the very finest regional dance instructors in the country. With complete devotion to her art, she has promoted dance in capacities that range from international performer to choreographer to dance company founder to teacher. Perhaps better known in her hometown of Dayton as "Miss Jo," she instructed three generations of students who attended the Schwarz School for the Dance she founded with her sister, Hermene, in 1927. |
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Carol | Scott | Clark | Religion and Community Services | 1994 | Get Biography
Carol L. Scott has devoted her life to helping other people. She began her distinguished career of volunteer service while an undergraduate at Ohio Wesleyan University. She organized students to visit veterans at Chillicothe Veterans Hospital and senior citizens at the Delaware County Nursing Home. Her efforts garnered her first recognition for volunteerism; the Red Cross Gray Lady Pin. |
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Evlyn Gray | Scott | Cuyahoga | Math, Science and Health Services | 2003 | Get Biography
Evlyn Gray Scott's career as a hospital pharmacist began at a time when there were few pharmacists practicing in hospitals and even fewer women practicing pharmacy at all. |
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Henrietta | Seiberling | Summit | Religion and Community Services | 1998 | Get Biography
Henrietta Buckler Seiberling played a key role in the formation of Alcoholics Anonymous. It all began in the early 1900s, when distressed over family and financial problems, Seiberling began attending weekly Oxford Group meetings in Akron. The Oxford Group was a religious revival group that stressed prayer and charitable work as ways of life. She helped to organize the Oxford Group' "alcoholic squad" in Akron and led many of these meetings from 1935 to 1939. |
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Phyllis | Sewell | Hamilton | Business and Labor | 1982 | Get Biography
Phyllis Shapiro Sewell spent her entire career at Federated Department Stores, Inc., an $11 billion corporation operating department stores, discount stores and supermarkets purchased by Campeau Corporation in 1988. Before retiring Senior Vice President Sewell's responsibilities included corporate and divisional strategic plans, studies of consumer attitudes and buying habits, studies of retail merchandising and marketing opportunities techniques and development of effective management information systems. |
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Maria | Sexton | Wayne | Sports and Athletics | 2001 | Get Biography
Teacher and collegiate coach, Maria Sexton came to the College of Wooster as chair of the Women' Physical Education Department. A strong advocate for varsity sports, Maria laid the groundwork to begin women' varsity programs. Soon after, men' and women' programs were merged under a man who was brought in to chair the combined departments. Disappointed, Maria did not let it cloud her vision. A year later, with her guidance, Wooster offered its first varsity sports for women - field hockey and basketball - followed by volleyball. |
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Thekla | R | Shackelford | Franklin | Education | 1997 | Get Biography
An educational consultant for students entering independent secondary schools and colleges, Thekla Shackelford founded School Selection Consulting in 1978. She then established the nationally recognized I Know I Can school program for the Columbus Public Schools. The program assists underserved students in successfully applying for and obtaining financial aid for post-secondary education. She has received numerous awards for the I Know I Can program, including a Private Sector Initiative Award from President Ronald Reagan and a Point of Light from President George H. Bush. |
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Fanchonbat-Lillian | Shur | Hamilton | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1990 | Get Biography
Fanchon bat-Lillian Shur of Cincinnati is a choreographer and an educator. She devotes her creative energies to the development of choreographic ceremonies based in Hebraic traditions, cross-cultural myths and legends that integrate movement, music and poetry. |
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Muriel | Siebert | Cuyahoga | Business and Labor | 1995 | Get Biography
Muriel "Mickie" Siebert is the founder and president of the discount brokerage firm that bears her name and is the first woman member of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Muriel Siebert & Company is the only woman-owned NYSE brokerage firm with a national presence. She also served five years as the first women Superintendent of Banking for the State of New York and was responsible for the safety and soundness of financial institutions. |
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Rita | N | Singh | Cuyahoga | Business and Labor | 2010 | Get Biography
Rita N. Singh is the CEO & Founder of Elite Women Around the World - A worldwide platform to enhance the economic position of women globally. Her legacy of leadership, innovation and humanitarian efforts has made her one of the few South Asian Women to receive the most prestigious awards, recognitions and accolades in the United States. Rita is a person of broad and deep accomplishments, with a global mindset to create success strategies worldwide. At various times she has excelled as an expert entrepreneur, brilliant executive coach & leadership strategist, dynamic speaker, author and moderator, philanthropist and thought leader, trained consultant and CPA. She received her bachelor's and master's degree in India and later completed her education as a Certified Public Accountant in the USA. |
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Eleanor | Smeal | Ashtabula | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1988 | Get Biography
Ashtabula native Eleanor (Ellie) Smeal, recognized throughout the nation as a women's rights leader, appears frequently on television and radio, testifies before Congress on a wide variety of women's issues and speaks to diverse audiences nationwide on a broad range of feminist topics. For over two decades, she has played a leading role in both national and state campaigns to win women's rights legislation and in a number of landmark state and federal court cases for women's rights. |
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Katherine | May | Smith | Hocking | Sports and Athletics | 2007 | Get Biography
Katherine May "Katie" Smith has raised the profile of women in sports. She is arguably one of the best female athletes to ever play the game of basketball, and has impacted the sport at every level. |
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Jayne | Spain | Hamilton | Business and Labor | 1982 | Get Biography
A resident of Cincinnati, Jayne Baker Spain had operated her own machinery manufacturing firm for fifteen years until that company merged with Litton Industries at which time she became a Litton divisional vice president. In 1976, Spain was elected senior vice president of public affairs for the Gulf Oil Corporation and in 1978, was elected to the board of Beatrice Foods Company of Chicago, the largest food company in the United States. |
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Paula | A | Spence | Franklin | Business and Labor | 1994 | Get Biography
An accomplished public relations and public affairs specialist, Paula A. Spence, now retired, was president and partner of Hameroff/Milenthal/Spence, one of Ohio' leading communications firms. She has provided leadership to Society Bank, Nationwide Investing Foundation, Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce, United Way of Franklin County, Children' Hospital, Columbus Public Schools, among many other civic and charitable organizations. |
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Marian | Spencer | Hamilton | Religion and Community Services | 1984 | Get Biography
Marian Spencer is recognized for her lifelong pursuit of human and civil rights. While at the University of Cincinnati, she struggled against the institutional racism that barred African Americans from living on campus, attending social events on campus and from being accepted at certain colleges such as medicine and music. She took Coney Island management to court after being banished from the front gate by a guard brandishing a gun on the Fourth of July, 1952. |
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Stefanie | Spielman | Franklin | Religion and Community Services | 2002 | Get Biography
In early 1998, while performing a breast self-exam, Stefanie Spielman felt a lump. She immediately went to her physician and was told...at age 30...that she had breast cancer. A mastectomy and six months of chemotherapy followed. |
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Charlene | Spretnak | Franklin | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1989 | Get Biography
Charlene Spretnak has done pioneering work in the peace, feminism and ecology movements, and has focused in particular on the spiritual and philosophical dimensions of social-change activism. She is a co-founder of the Green Party in the U.S. |
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Mary Jen | Steinbrenner | Cuyahoga | Religion and Community Services | 1985 | Get Biography
Mary "Jen" Steinbrenner was instrumental in the development of programs focusing on the needs of women and children. As program director at the George Gund Foundation, she addressed numerous women' issues, particularly teenage pregnancy, childcare, reproductive freedom and domestic violence. |
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Gloria | Steinem | Lucas | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1983 | Get Biography
Born in Toledo, Steinem has moved into the national and international forum to plead the case of women' rights. As an editor of Ms. magazine, she proved that women can make their mark in the tough publishing world when they speak to and on behalf of their sisters. |
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Bobbie | L | Sterne | Hamilton | Math, Science and Health Services | 1979 | Get Biography
Bobbie Sterne trained as a nurse, became Cincinnati' first lady of politics and the first elected woman mayor. Sterne graduated from the Akron City Hospital School of Nursing and served as a first lieutenant with the 25th General Hospital Unit in Britain, France and Belgium during World War II. |
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Ella | Stewart | Lucas | Government and Military Service | 1978 | Get Biography
Ella P. Stewart was the first Negro woman to graduate from Pittsburgh University in Pharmacy and to pass the Pennsylvania State Board of Pharmacy. She is a former president of the National Association of Colored Women, was a delegate to the United States Commission of the United National Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations and a lecturer on women' affairs during a State Department tour of the Far East. Stewart was a founder of the Toledo Chapter of the Pan-Pacific Southeast Asian Women' Association. |
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Harriet | Stowe | Hamilton | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1999 | Get Biography
It is difficult to imagine that the Civil War would have garnered much support from citizens, or taken place at all, without the atrocities of slavery explained in full detail through the eyes and writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
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Kathryn | D. | Sullivan | Franklin | Math, Science and Health Services | 2002 | Get Biography
Kathryn D. Sullivan has explored the universe from the depths of the ocean's floor to the heights of outer space. She has broken traditional gender barriers and is paving the way for others to follow. |
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Phebe Temperance | Sutliff | Trumbull | Religion and Community Services | 1990 | Get Biography
Phebe Temperance Sutliff of Warren, dedicated her life to the education and welfare of women and other minority groups. Her outstanding intellectual abilities and progressive spirit resulted in accomplishments that benefitted her entire community. A graduate of Vassar College and Cornell University, Sutliff chaired the departments of History, English and Economics at Illinois" Rockford College before eventually becoming its President. |
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Ethel | G | Swanbeck | Huron | Government and Military Service | 1979 | Get Biography
Ethel Swanbeck was dean of the Ohio House Republican delegation upon her retirement in 1976, serving 22 years in the House. During her legislative service, she sponsored legislation reforming state commercial fishing laws, fought against lake shore erosion as a member of the Great Lakes Commission and sought welfare reform as a member of the House Finance Committee' welfare section. |
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Hope | Taft | Hamilton | Government and Military Service | 1996 | Get Biography
Hope Taft, married to Ohio Governor Bob Taft, became First Lady on January 11, 1999. As Ohio's First Lady, she focuses on three basic areas: mobilizing Ohio communities to promote positive youth development emphasizing drug and alcohol prevention, encouraging and recognizing volunteerism and promoting Ohio's Bicentennial through Ohio's arts and history. |
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Yvonne | Taylor | Greene | Education | 2000 | Get Biography
Outstanding educator Yvonne Walker-Taylor has spent her entire adult life working in American education. She has been a secondary education teacher in the 1940s and a college professor in the 1950s. In the 1960s she was the first chairperson of the Wilberforce University Education department and then assistant to the college president. |
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Mary Emily | Taylor | Logan | Education | 1998 | Get Biography
Emily Taylor, Ph.D., has been a leader of women educators, women' organizations, and groups concerned with the status of women all of her adult life. She has bachelor' and master' degrees from The Ohio State University and a doctorate from Indiana University. She spent two years as Counselor at Indiana University, one as Acting Dean of Women at the University of Louisville, six as Dean of Women at Northern Montana College, three as Associate Dean of Women at Miami University and eighteen years as Dean of Women at the University of Kansas. In 1975, she became Director of the Office of Women in Higher Education at the American Council on Education. In 1982, she became a Senior Associate for the American Council on Education' Office of Women. |
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Louella | Thompson | Butler | Religion and Community Services | 1992 | Get Biography
When Middletown's Louella Thompson announced her plans to feed the hungry of Southwestern Ohio, there were those who said it couldn't be done. Five years and 75,000 meals later, people are wondering how she did it. With $15.00 and an unshakable faith, Thompson opened her heart and home to the 200 individuals lined up at her back door on that first day in September, 1987. |
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Jerry Sue | Thornton | Cuyahoga | Education | 1999 | Get Biography
As president of Cuyahoga Community College, Jerry Sue Thornton is committed to the philosophy that all people have the capacity to learn if given sufficient time, motivation, and instruction. Having served as an educator for over 30 years, she is dedicated to shaping lives through the acquisition of knowledge. |
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Suzanne | P | Timken | Stark | Sports and Athletics | 1991 | Get Biography
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Deanna | L | Tribe | Vinton | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1994 | Get Biography
Deanna L. Tribe has devoted her life to education, with a special concern for the residents of her native Appalachian Ohio. Beginning her career as a public school teacher, Tribe has spent 18 years teaching adults through The Ohio State University Extension Service. In her current position as District Specialist, she serves 16 counties and implements the Extension Services' educational mission of helping people help themselves through an emphasis on family, economic and physical well-being. |
Marian | Trimble | Franklin | Business and Labor | 1984 | Get Biography
Marian Trimble is one of the highest ranking female corporate executives in Columbus and Ohio. As president of Nationwide Investment Services, Inc., she is the first woman to head a company in the Nationwide group. In a business center highlighted by "firsts", she has made her mark of excellence in a field dominated by male executives. |
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Jean Starr | Untermeyer | Muskingum | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1981 | Get Biography
Jeanette Starr Untermeyer was a celebrated poet and translator. She was ten years old when she began piano lessons, studying music and singing in America and Germany. Her study of German diction helped her to translate Oscar Bie' Life of Schubert, Broch' The Death of Virgil and Re-creations her last book. |
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Harriet | Upton | Portage | Government and Military Service | 1981 | Get Biography
Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren fought for women' rights. Upton played a major role in ratification of the 19th Amendment giving the right to vote to women. |
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Carolyn | G | Utz | Franklin | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1988 | Get Biography
A retired bass player, Carolyn G. Utz, has devoted her many talents to improving the community through volunteer work. Carolyn performed with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and its fore-runner, The Columbus Philharmonic Orchestra, for 30 years before retiring. |
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Marigene | Valiquette | Lucas | Government and Military Service | 1978 | Get Biography
Marigene Valiquette, served as a representative from Lucas County in the Ohio General Assembly from 1963-1968. She was elected to the State Senate in 1969 both firsts for Democratic women in Ohio. For many years, she served as the sole woman Senator. |
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Virginia | Varga | Montgomery | Education | 1998 | Get Biography
Virginia Varga is an internationally known Montessori educator and expert. In 1962, Varga and her husband founded the Gloria Dei Montessori school in Dayton. Varga later established a Montessori toddler program, the first offered in the United States. Varga's vision for children did not stop in Dayton. She has established or influenced hundreds of Montessori schools and day care centers in cities, town and villages around the world and continues to train hundreds of Montessori teachers on a regular basis. |
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Charlene | Ventura | Hamilton | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1989 | Get Biography
Charlene Ventura is the President and CEO of the YWCA of Greater Cincinnati. In 1977 her leadership led to the establishment and funding of the first shelter for battered women in the Greater Cincinnati area (the YWCA Alice Paul House is the first of seven founded nationally). She founded AMEND, a unique program to counsel male abusers, and has served as a consultant on domestic violence issues to the National Levi Strauss Foundation. |
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Nancy | VetroneBieniek | Cuyahoga | Business and Labor | 1991 | Get Biography
For businesswoman Nancy Vetrone Bieniek, the bottom line has always included people as well as profits. In 1975, she founded the Original Copy Centers, the nation's largest quick copy business. It was her concern for individual employees, combined with a strong commitment to give back to the community, that set her apart from other corporate executives. |
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Janet | Voinovich | Cuyahoga | Government and Military Service | 1999 | Get Biography
As Ohio's First Lady, Janet Voinovich directed her energies toward initiatives focused on the health, education, and well-being of Ohio' women and children. |
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Lillian | D | Wald | Hamilton | Math, Science and Health Services | 1994 | Get Biography
Born in Cincinnati to immigrant parents, Lillian D. Wald went on to become an internationally recognized leader in the development of public health nursing. In 1893, she founded both the Visiting Nurse Service of New York and the Henry Street Settlement in New York City. |
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Ann | B | Walker | Franklin | Government and Military Service | 1978 | Get Biography
As the first woman broadcaster to report on the Ohio legislature and to be appointed to the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services Advisory Council, Ann B. Walker has positively affected the quality of life in our society. |
Selma Lois | Walker | Franklin | Religion and Community Services | 1986 | Get Biography
As founder and director of the Native American Indian Center of Columbus, Ohio, Selma Lois Walker helped to improve the quality of life for many Native American families in the Central Ohio area. |
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Julia | Walsh | Summit | Business and Labor | 1986 | Get Biography
Julia Curry Montgomery Walsh of Akron is a woman of many "firsts," including first woman Governor of the American Stock Exchange, first woman Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, first woman President of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, first female graduate of the Advance Management Program of the Harvard Business School and the first female business graduate from the Kent State University College of Business. She was an early business and finance pioneer promoting that the most important freedom for women is economic freedom. |
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Stella | Walsh | Cuyahoga | Sports and Athletics | 1978 | Get Biography
Stanislawa Walasiewicz, who was born in Poland in 1911, moved with her family to Cleveland in 1912, where she became Stella Walsh, one of the greatest Olympians and all-around women athletes of all time. |
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Farah | M | Walters | Cuyahoga | Business and Labor | 2001 | Get Biography
Farah M. Walters came to America from Iran in 1964 barely speaking English, to become the first woman in America to head an independent academic medical center. Walters has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of University Hospitals Health System and University Hospitals of Cleveland since 1992. |
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Florence | Wang | Mahoning | Religion and Community Services | 2007 | Get Biography
Florence Wang's community involvement spans thirty years of service in the Youngstown area. Her dedication to the arts, education and community needs is reflected in Ms. Wang's years of work and participation on executive boards of numerous civic and cultural organizations. Her leadership roles in the Mahoning Valley are numerous and include: President of the American Red Cross, Leadership Mahoning Valley, Mahoning County Medial Society Alliance, YWCA, and Friends of the Ballet. She has also served on the Board of Directors for the Butler Institute of American Art, the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, and the International Institute Foundation. |
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Anita Smith | Ward | Franklin | Education | 1988 | Get Biography
A quiet trailblazer for women in the field of education, Anita Smith Ward was the first woman to be elected Chair of a state university Board of Trustees in Ohio. Her appointment and re-appointment to the Bowling Green State University Board of Trustees resulted in fifteen years of active involvement in all aspects of campus life and administration. |
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Georgeta Blebea | Washington | Cuyahoga | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 2001 | Get Biography
Georgeta B. Washington is President of the Union and League of Romanian Societies of America, the largest and oldest fraternal organization of American-Romanians. The first woman president, she has reinvigorated activities the United States and Romania. Under her leadership, membership has grown dramatically. She streamlined the activities of the central headquarters and decreased costs while increasing services. |
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Glenna | L. | Watson | Franklin | Government and Military Service | 2009 | Get Biography
Glenna Watson's professional career has been characterized by achievement, innovation and service to others. Watson has served as Chief of Personnel for the Ohio Department of Development and Personnel Director for the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO). Watson spent 22 years at the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA), the regional public transit system serving Columbus and central Ohio. In 1994, she was appointed as General Manager and Chief Executive Officer. She was the first African American female to lead the Authority and one of the first African American women to manage a transit property. |
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Faye | Wattleton | Montgomery | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1986 | Get Biography
Faye Wattleton is an articulate educator, administrator and leader in the field of women's health and reproductive rights serving for more than two decades. She has served as President of the Center for Gender Equality, a not-for-profit research and policy development institute, created in 1995 to advance women's equality and full participation in society. |
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Doris | M | Weber | Cuyahoga | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1980 | Get Biography
Doris M. Weber, a nationally acclaimed artist and industrial photographer, spent her career as an art teacher in the Cleveland area. She graduated from the Cleveland School of Art in 1922. Between 1922 and 1936, she was the head of the art department at Audubon Junior High School. In 1937, she assumed a similar position at Rawlings Junior High School where she remained until retiring in 1960. |
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Clara | E | Weisenborn | Montgomery | Government and Military Service | 1979 | Get Biography
Clara Weisenborn served for twenty-two years as a member of the Ohio Legislature. Fourteen years were spent in the House and eight in the Senate. Within these years, she was able to accomplish many firsts for women in Ohio. She was the first to Chair the Senate Education and Health committee, the first women on the Legislative Service Commission. |
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Marion | S | Wells | Licking | Math, Science and Health Services | 1978 | Get Biography
Marion Swern Wells lived in Licking County her entire life. She taught in the Newark Public Schools and organized one of the first classes for physically handicapped children in Ohio at Roosevelt School. She also organized the first class for sight-impaired children in Newark, which she directed. |
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Michele | G. | Wheatly | Greene | Education | 2008 | Get Biography
The Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at Wright State University, Michele Wheatly is continuously opening the door for women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields. |
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Marjorie | M | Whiteman | Henry | Law | 1979 | Get Biography
Marjorie Whiteman attended a country school in Liberty Township and went on to receive a BA degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1920. She taught history at Napoleon High School from 1920 through 1926. She then went to Washington D.C. |
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Grayce | E | Williams | Franklin | Religion and Community Services | 1990 | Get Biography
A member of the Columbus YWCA for over fifty years, Grayce E. Williams was the first Black woman to serve as President. Her volunteer work opened doors for improving the lives of women and their children, especially women of color and low-income individuals. She was a powerful role model and mentor to many who believe that equality is a principle that can be a reality. |
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Bernett | L. | Williams | Summit | Religion and Community Services | 2009 | Get Biography
Bernett L. Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Akron Community Service Center and Urban League is a native of Toledo, Ohio. She graduated from Kent State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Rhetoric and Communications. She is currently pursuing an MPA from the University of Akron. |
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Yvonne | C | Williams | Wayne | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 2003 | Get Biography
Yvonne Williams is a leading authority in Black Studies. She designed and founded the Black Studies Program at The College of Wooster, chaired the Program for 22 years, served on elected faculty committees and was appointed Academic Dean of the Faculty from 1989-1993. |
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Celia | Williamson | Lucas | Religion and Community Services | 2009 | Get Biography
Dr. Williamson received her BA in Social Work from the University of Toledo, her Masters in Social Work from Case Western Reserve University and her Ph.D. from Indiana University. After learning about the abuses suffered by those who were victims of human trafficking, Dr. Williamson devoted the next 15 years toward learning, researching, and developing responses to appropriately address it. |
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Nancy | Wilson | Ross | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1981 | Get Biography
A native of Ross County, Nancy Wilson is a well-known signer and entertainer. At fifteen, she won a talent show in Columbus. The prize was her own twice-a-week television show, Skyline Melodies. A member of Rusty Bryant's band at the Carolyn Club, she also sat in with any band that would let her at other local clubs. One night, Cannonball Adderley, was so impressed, he told her to look him up if she ever came to New York. She did just that. In 1959, Wilson went to New York where she met her long-time manager, John Levy, who got her signed to Capitol Records. |
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Freda | Winning | Sandusky | Government and Military Service | 1983 | Get Biography
As an educator, Marine officer, government official and international diplomat, Freda Gerwin Winning, Ph.D., worked tirelessly to improve the status of women, both in the United States and abroad. Her thesis focused on the historical changes in women's occupations. |
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Mary Ellen | Withrow | Marion | Government and Military Service | 1986 | Get Biography
Mary Ellen Withrow began her public career in 1969 as the first woman elected to the Elgin Local School Board in Marion County. She served consecutive terms as Marion County Treasurer in 1976 and 1980. Withrow went on become 42nd Treasurer of the State of Ohio in 1982 and was re-elected in 1986 and 1990. From 1994 through 2001, she was the U. S. Treasurer. She was the first person in the nation's history to hold the position of Treasurer at each level of government - local, state and national. |
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Joyce | Wollenberg | Perry | Business and Labor | 1984 | Get Biography
Joyce Wollenberg has dedicated her life to the cause of equal rights and dignity for workers. As a member of the United Auto Workers (UAW), she pioneered the development of leadership roles for women in the organized labor movement, serving as of Chair of the Southeastern Ohio Community Action Program Council. |
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Margaret | W | Wong | Cuyahoga | Law | 2000 | Get Biography
In the late 1960s, Margaret W. Wong fled China and came to the United States on a student visa. She had little money and very big dreams. She worked as a waitress while attending college and law school. Over the last twenty years, she has built Margaret W. Wong & Associates Co., L.P.A, a law firm that is nationally and internationally renowned for its expertise in Immigration and Nationality law. |
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Jacqueline | F | Woods | Cuyahoga | Business and Labor | 1998 | Get Biography
Jacqueline F. Woods retired as president of Ameritech Ohio, an SBC Company. |
Mary | E | Young | Franklin | Religion and Community Services | 1983 | Get Biography
As Ohio's leader in the struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment, Mary E. Miller Young worked continuously and effectively for the rights of all human beings. |
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Betty | Zane | Belmont | Government and Military Service | 2000 | Get Biography
Although Betty Zane's girlhood act of bravery occurred in what is now West Virginia, it had a significant impact on the Ohio Valley and a young United States as a whole. Her story epitomizes the hardships that pioneer women suffered, and often took for granted. She selflessly volunteered for a dangerous mission for the sake of others. Here' how it happened: |
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Stella Marie | Zannoni | Cuyahoga | Womens' Suffrage and Cultural Activism | 1991 | Get Biography
As a teacher of English, German, French and Italian, Stella Marie Scarano Zannoni has supported cultural exchange and committed herself to public service at many levels. |
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Helen | E | Zelkowitz | Knox | Arts, Music and Journalism | 1982 | Get Biography
A broadcaster nearly fifty years, Helen E. Zelkowitz participated in the founding of radio station WMVO-FM and WMVO-AM. Over the years, she served WMVO as Community Director, |
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Nancy Lusk | Zimpher | Franklin | Education | 1998 | Get Biography
Nancy L. Zimpher, Ph.D. was appointed chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in August 1998. Her university career began in 1991 at The Ohio State University. She quickly moved into more prominent positions. She was associate dean for Academic Affairs, College of Education; professor, School of Educational Policy and Leadership; acting dean, College of Education; dean, College of Education; and executive dean of the Professional Colleges. |