Hall of Fame of Delaware Women

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The Hall of Fame of Delaware Women was established in 1981 by the Delaware Commission for Women, a division of the Secretary of State of Delaware. The hall of fame recognizes the achievements and contributions of Delaware women in a variety of fields and includes activists, artists, athletes, military personnel and scientists.[1]

The Delaware Commission for Women is a state agency with members appointed by the Governor representing Wilmington and each of Delaware's three counties (New Castle, Kent and Sussex). In making its selections for the Hall of Fame, the Commission prioritizes civil rights, economic empowerment, violence prevention, women's health, work, family, recognition and celebration. Eligible women must have been born in Delaware or resided in the state for a minimum of ten years.[2]

Inductees

Delaware Women's Hall of Fame
Name Image Birth–Death Year Area of achievement Ref(s)
Kim L. Allen 2015 Educator who works with at-risk youth [3]
Roxana Cannon Arsht (1915–2003) 1986 First female judge in the State of Delaware [4]
Martha G. Bachman (1924–1998) Chair of the Delaware State Advisory Council on Vocational Education
Myrna L. Bair 2001 Member of the Delaware Senate, Policy Advisor and Assistant Professor, Public Management Faculty, Institute for Public Administration, University of Delaware [5]
Helen S. Balick U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge [6]
Sister Ascension Banegas 2010 Advocate for immigrants and co-founder of La Esperanza Community Center in Georgetown [1]
Joy Ann Bartell Beebe School of Nursing instructor
Elizabeth Empson Battell 2008 Delaware's "godmother," ran the Golden Fleece Tavern between 1777 and 1792 [7]
Grace Ruth Batten 1999 First African American woman mayor in Sussex County [8]
Darlene Battle 2015 Social activist [3]
Renee Palmore Beaman 2008 Created the Bethel AIDS Task Force in 1994 with six other women [7]
Grace Pierce Beck (1926–2008) 2008 Leading Delaware environmentalist [7]
Sandra Ben 2015 Pastor and community organizer [3]
Sujata Kumari Bhatia 2007 Earned three Bachelor's degrees and a Master's degree in four years [9]
Neda P. Biggs 2011 Bilingual immigration attorney
Emily P. Bissell 100px (1861–1948) American social worker and activist who introduced Christmas Seals to the United States [10]
Patricia M. Blevins 2004 Majority Leader of the Delaware Senate, Senator Blevins official site
Cynthia M. Boehmer Domestic Violence Coordinating Council member
Julie K. Boozer Chair of the Division of Nursing at Wesley College
M. Jane Brady 2006 42nd Delaware Attorney General [8]
Madaline Elliot Buchanan (1908–1995) President of the Delaware Board of Education
Carolyn S. Burger 2007 First woman in the US to head a telecommunications company; CEO of Bell Atlantic-Delaware [9]
Evelyn P. Burkle
Marguerite Hill Burnett (1885–1966) State director of adult education
Eleanor L. Cain 1994 Director of the Delaware Division of Services for Aging and Physical Disabilities [11]
Annie Jump Cannon Annie Jump Cannon 1922 Portrait.jpg (1863–1941) Astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification [12]
Claire La Mar Carey Director of the Walnut Street YMCA's Black Achiever program
Mary Ann Shadd Cary Mary Ann Shadd.jpg (1823–1893) Anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher and lawyer. She was the first black woman publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada. [13]
Mae Riedy Carter Program specialist in the University of Delaware's Division of Continuing Education, first Chair of the Commission on the Status of Women
Sister Jeanne Cashman Founder of Sojourner's Place [14]
Imogene F. Chandler 2011 Supporter of early childhood education programs
Linda L. Chick Chair of the Youth Philanthropy Board Advisory Committee for the Delaware Community Foundation
Uma Chowdhry Uma Chowdhry 2008.JPG 2008 Research scientist at DuPont who specialized in ceramic materials, including catalysts, proton conductors, superconductors and ceramic packaging for microelectronics [7]
Beatrice Coker 2013 Public education and literacy advocate
Alice Marie Smith Coleman Therapist and volunteer
Louise T. Conner (1918–1983) Member of the Delaware House of Representatives, representing Brandywine Hundred [15]
Nancy W. Cook Member of the Delaware Senate
Vicky Cooke 2012 Executive Director of the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition [16]
Pearl Herlihy Daniels (1910–1994) Collector of historical maps [17]
Hilda Davis (1905–2001) First African American woman to hold a full-time faculty position at the University of Delaware
Vera Gilbride Davis (1894–1974) First woman elected to the Delaware Senate
Anna Janney De Armond (1910–2008) First woman to become a full professor at the University of Delaware [18]
Susan C. Del Pesco 2011 First woman elected as President of the Delaware Bar Association and the first women appointed to the Delaware Superior Court [19]
Theresa L.I. del Tufo 2009 Established three centers for displaced homemakers [20]
Lozelle Jenkins DeLuz President of DeLuz Management Consultants [21]
Audrey K. Doberstein 2011 Former President of Wilmington University [22]
Felicia A. Dorman 2006
Pauline Dyson (1891–1970) Teacher and community leader [23]
Jeanette Eckman (1882–1972) 2010 Political leader, historian and editor [1]
Micki Edelsohn 2012 Founder of the Homes for Life Foundation, a non-profit providing housing for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities [16]
Katherine L. Esterly Worked to establish the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Christiana Hospital
Esther Schauer Frear (1909–2000) Wife of Senator J. Allen Frear, Jr., member of the Senate Ladies Red Cross Unit
Sherry L. Freebery Police chief and chief administrative officer [24]
Lynne S. Frink (1946–1998) Environmentalist; founded Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research [25]
Sister Ann Marguerite Gildea (1919–2005) Founder of the Mary Mother of Hope House I [26]
Muriel E. Gilman (1923–2011) Executive with the United Way of Delaware [27]
Sallie Topkis Ginns (1880–1976) Member of the National Woman's Party, suffragist [28]
Genevieve W. Gore (1913–2005) Founded W. L. Gore and Associates with her husband, Wilbert (Bill) Lee Gore
Patricia W. Griffin State Court Administrator in the Delaware Administrative Office
Teresa Haman Painter [29]
Norma B. Handloff (1913–2002) Newark's first woman mayor, 1966–1973
Margaret I. Handy (1889–1977) Pioneering doctor who was one of the first to specialise in paediatric medicine. In 1945, she established the first mothers' milk bank at Delaware Hospital (now Wilmington Hospital) in Wilmington, Delaware. [30][31][32][33]
Marian L. Harris Founder and volunteer executive director of The House of Pride
Kathryn Young Hazeur (1923–2011) 2010 First African American to earn a graduate degree from the University of Delaware in 1951 [1]
Sally V. Hawkins 2009 Radio journalist at WILM [20]
Margaret Rose Henry Member of the Delaware Senate, Majority Whip
Barbara Chase Herr
Florence Bayard Hilles (1865–1954) One of the Silent Sentinels, a group of women in favor of women's suffrage who protested in front of the White House during Woodrow Wilson's presidency [34]
Carol E. Hoffecker Chair of the University of Delaware Department of History [35]
Gloria Wernicki Homer Chief Administrative Officer of Governor Executive Office
Henrietta R. Johnson (1914–1994) First African American woman elected to the Delaware General Assembly [36]
Moonyeen L. Klopfenstein 2011 Child birth educator
Sally J. Knox (1925–1995) Headed the Delaware Commission for Women; pay equity advocate [37]
Stephanie Louise Kwolek 2014 Inventor of Kevlar [38]
Rita Landgraf 2015 Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services [3]
Lucile Petry Leone Photo Lucile Petry Leone (1902-1999).jpg (1902–1999) American nurse who was the founding director of the Cadet Nurse Corps in 1943 [39]
Ruth Mitchell Laws (1912–2010) Educator; Vice President of the Delaware Technical Community College [40]
Gertrude M. Lowell (1901–1994)
Lolita A. Lopez 2006 President and CEO of YWCA Delaware [41]
Patricia Maichle 2013 Executive Director of the Delaware Developmental Disabilities Council
Margaret R. Manning Member of the Delaware Senate
Jane P. Maroney Member of the Delaware House of Representatives
Mary Askew Mather (1861–1925) President of the New Century Club
Christine Margaret McDermott (1947–2007) 2008 Attorney who fought domestic violence and was the first woman to be Executive Director of Delaware Volunteer Legal Services [7]
Catherine Devaney McKay 2014 Founder of Connections Community Support Programs [38]
Ruth Ann Minner 100px 1995 72nd Governor of Delaware [8]
Wilma Mishoe 2013 Dean at Delaware Technical & Community College
Jane E. Mitchell (1921–2004) First African American registered nurse to be hired in a Delaware hospital
Jane T. Mitchell
Emily G. Morris (1934–2001)
Elizabeth Neal Deputy Warden of New Castle County Community Corrections
Edith Jackson Newton (1905–1996)
Jeanne D. Nutter Compiled Growing Up Black in New Castle County [42]
Ruth Oates-Graham National Association of State EMS Directors
Renee G. O'Leary Early childhood science teacher
Karen E. Peterson Member of the Delaware Senate [43]
Jacquelin Pitts 2010 Lacrosse player and coach; led the U.S. Women's Lacrosse Team to their first World Championship [1]
Patricia H. Purcell 2014 First African American pediatrician in Delaware [38]
Vivian Rapposelli 2012 Secretary of the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families [16]
Betsy Rawls (b. 1928) 2006 Professional golfer [44]
Mabel L. Fisher Ridgely (1872–1962) Preservationist and suffragist [45]
Winifred J. Robinson (1868–1962) First dean of the Women's College of the University of Delaware [46]
Jane Richards Roth (1935–) 2013 Federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Elizabeth H. Ryan
Nancy Churchman Sawin (1919–2008) Author and Lacrosse and field hockey player [47]
Beatrice "Bea" Simonds (1914–2006) Advocate for the visually impaired [48]
Ileana Smith 2015 Vice president and campus director for the Delaware Technical Community College's Owens Campus [3]
Harriet N. Smith Windsor 1997 First woman from Sussex County to be appointed Secretary of State [8]
Ada Leigh Soles (1937–2010) Member of the Delaware House of Representatives [49]
Liane McDowell Sorenson 2007 Director of Women's Affairs at the University of Delaware, member of the Delaware House of Representatives and Minority Whip [9]
Cecile Long Steele (1900–1940) Pioneer of Delaware's broiler chicken industry
Beverly Louise Stewart 2010 Educator and founder of the Back to Basics tutoring business [1]
Mary Ann Sorden Stuart 100px (1828–1893) Suffragist, "Delaware's first feminist" [50]
Evelyn Dickenson Swensson 2008 Conductor, composer, lyricist, pianist, singer, playwright and musical lecturer [7]
Shirley M. Tarrant (1935–2003) 2007 Founder and President of the Suburban County Hospital Task Force [9]
Frances D. Swift Tatnall (1874–1966) Founder of the Tatnall School in Wilmington
Mary Jornlin Theisen (1927–2007) First woman elected New Castle County executive [51]
Helen R. Thomas Women's rights activist [52]
Carol A. Timmons Brigadier General of the Delaware Air National Guard [53]
Judith Gedney Tobin 2010 Pioneer in forensic pathology, performed over 5000 autopsies [1]
Mae D. Hightower-Vandamm Exec. Dir Delaware Curative Workshop [54][55]
Mabel Vernon 100px (1884–1975) One of the Silent Sentinels, a group of women in favor of women's suffrage who protested in front of the White House during Woodrow Wilson's presidency [56]
Edith P. Vincent School nurse and advocate for children's health [57]
Loretta F. Walsh 2006 Wilmington, Delaware city council member [58]
Mary Sam Ward (1911–2000) Author, educator and historian; 1979 Delaware Mother of the Year; co-founder of the Delaware Press Women in 1977 [59]
Emalea Pusey Warner (1853–1948) Successfully campaigned for public vocational education and has a local elementary school named in her honor. [60]
Frances West 2012 Treasurer of the National Consumers League and Delaware's first woman director of Consumer Affairs, former president of Delaware's Better Business Bureau and Delaware Highway Commissioner [16]
Valerie Whiting 2007 Professional basketball player [9]
H. Ruth Williams (1915–1999) Delaware State University [61][62]
Lynn W. Williams 2009 Conservationist and founder of the Delaware Nature Society; rescued the Brandywine Creek State Park from development [20]
Valerie A. Woodruff 2005 Delaware Secretary of Education [63]
Latricia Odette Wright 2014 Nanticoke elder and educator [38]
Mary Ann Wright (1920–2006) Cerebral palsy victim who in 1948 teamed with polio victim Agnes Peronne to co-found the Mancus Foundation, an organization to assist the handicapped. Wright was president of the organization for 58 years. [64]
Pauline A. Young (1900–1991) 1982 Teacher, librarian, and lecturer [65]

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