Louisiana Center for Women in Government and Business Hall of Fame

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The Louisiana Center for Women in Government and Business Hall of Fame recognizes women natives or residents of the U.S. state of Louisiana for their significant achievements or statewide contributions. Among the inductees are men whose contributions to supporting strong women were deemed significant. The Center is headquartered at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux and was established in 1991 to promote and encourage government and public service leadership of women. The first Hall of Fame inductions occurred in March 1994 during Women's History Month.[1]

Inductees

Louisiana Center for Women and Government Hall of Fame
Name Image Birth–Death Year Area of achievement Ref(s)
Eleanora Angelo 2000
Wilhelmina Bernard Armour 1999
Eileen R. Armstrong (1917–2010) 2000 First female school board president in East Baton Rouge Parish, active in many organizations, including the Democratic Party [2]
Jean Armstrong 2010 Co-founder of the Louisiana Voting Rights Network and president of League of Women Voters. [3]
Stephanie Burks 2015 Entrepreneurship, co-owner and co-founder of RYCARS Construction, LLC
Betsy Cheramie Ayo (d. 1997) 1998 Namesake of Betsy Cheramie Ayo Hal at Nicholls University; active in civic organizations, wife of Nicholls State University president Donald Ayo [4]
Laura Badeaux 2004 Director, Louisiana Center for Women and Government at Nicholls State University [5]
Jo Ann Cefalu Blanchard 2002 Member Historic District Commission, Morgan City [6]
Lindy Boggs Corinne Lindy Boggs.jpg (1916–2013) 1994 United States House of Representatives; United States Ambassador to the Holy See [7]
Charlotte A. Bollinger 1999 Executive Vice President, Bollinger Shipyards, Inc.; member of numerous civic organizations; member of the Board of Regents for the State of Louisiana [8]
Lois D. Breaux 2001
Fran Bussie 1994 Democratic Party activist; Board of Directors Arthritis Association of Louisiana; second wife and widow of AFL-CIO state president Victor Bussie [9]
Velma Callais-Rogers 2004
Leah Chase 100px (b. 1923) 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award, Owner of Dooky Chase’s restaurant in New Orleans [10]
Jackie Clarkson 100px (b. 1936) 2015 Award for Public Service, New Orleans City Council
Sally Clausen (b. 1945) 1998 Former Louisiana Commissioner of Higher Education; also served as Adjunct Professor for Louisiana State University, Deputy Commissioner of Administration, Commissioner of Higher Education, Secretary of Education for the Office of the Governor, and President of Southeastern Louisiana University. [11]
Beth Courtney 100px (b. 1945) 1999 President and CEO of Louisiana Public Broadcasting [12]
Betty Scott Cummins 2010 director for both Winnsboro State Bank and the Scott Companies [3]
Kitty DeGree (1922-2012) 2008 Philanthropist who made her money in real estate, Kitty DeGree Breast Health Center at St. Francis Medical Center and Kitty Degree School of Nursing at the University of Louisiana at Monroe [13]
C. Maxine Holtry Daniels 1996 Martin Luther King Executive Committee, Southern Christian Leadership Conference [14]
Judy Ewell Day 2003 Lobbyist-consultant, Woman's Hospital/Woman's Health Foundation [15]
Elizabeth Ratcliff Dent 2012 president of Financial and Management Services [16]
Kathleen Mix Diamond 2012 Vice Chancellor for Workforce Development and Education at Delgado Community College [16]
Irma Muse Dixon (b. 1952) 2007 First African-American elected to the Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) [17]
Maurice Durbin 2013 Lobbyist for women's rights in Louisiana
Pat Evans 1994 Director of the International Project for Nonprofit Leadership (IPNL) at the University of New Orleans [18]
Rosemary Ewing 2009 First female board chairman of Louisiana United Methodist Children and Family Services, Inc. [19]
Joanne Ferriot 2001 Member of Louisiana Board of Ethics, retired administrator of Nicholls State University [20]
Alice Foster 2002 Former First Lady of Louisiana, wife of former Governor Murphy J. Foster, Jr., resides at Oaklawn Manor; serves on the Executive Board of the Sunshine Foundation in Baton Rouge, which builds self-esteem among Kindergarten children [21]
Mari Ann Fowler (b. 1937) 2006 Deceased second wife of Jerry Fowler, abducted from a parking lot in Port Allen, Louisiana on Christmas Eve 2002 while Jerry Fowler was incarcerated for kickbacks and income tax evasion. State District Judge Janice Clark declared her legally dead, May 2004. [22]
Felicia Frederick 2015 Manager of State Governmental Affairs for Chevron, Government, Policy, and Public Affairs
Andie Bollinger Giardina 2012 longtime supporter of Women's Night Out, a major fundraiser for women student-athletes [16]
Lucille May Grace (1900–1957) 1995 Louisiana Register of the State Land Office, 1932, first woman to attain statewide elected office in Louisiana [23]
Bunnatine H. Greenhouse 2006 Top procurement official at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who blew the whistle on Halliburton contracts [24]
Betty Green Heitman (1930–1994) 1996 Co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, 1983-1987; former president of the National Federation of Republican Women [25]
Russ Herman 2015 Men Who Support Strong Women; Senior Partner, Herman, Herman & Katz Law Firm; philanthropic support of and work for The Center
Maggie Bell Atkins Hodges (1922–1986) 1995 Republican Party activist during Eisenhower administration [26]
Sibal Suarez Holt 2002 S. Holt Construction, former president of the Louisiana AFL-CIO. [27]
Rose Hudson 2012 Chief Executive Officer, Louisiana Lottery [16]
Eddie D. Brown Jones 1995
Kay Katz (b. 1938) 2013 Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and former Louisiana Republican National Committeewoman
Iris Kelso (1926–2003) 1997 Journalist in New Orleans [28]
Marilyn B. Kilgen 2005 Professor of Biological Sciences [29]
Constance A. Koury 2000 Lawyer, first female executive council to the Governor of Louisiana; first female Assistant Attorney General in Louisiana. General council, Louisiana Board of Regents. Executive Director, Louisiana Association for Justice [30]
Ethel N. Knobloch 2006 Former City Councilwoman, Thibodaux [31]
Verna S. Landrieu 2006 Matriarch of Louisiana's Landrieu's family; mother of New Orlean Mayor Mitch Landrieu and United States Senator Mary Landrieu [32]
Carol R. LeBlanc 2005 Member of the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana [33]
Christian LeBlanc Christian LeBlanc - Monte-Carlo Television Festival.JPG (b. 1958) 2015 Men Who Support Strong Women, support of numerous charities including The Center, Bayou Junior Woman’s Club and The Lafourche Commission on Women
Mary Ann Lemmon (b. 1941) 2007 United States federal judge appointed by Bill Clinton July 25, 1966; Judge, Louisiana District Court, Twenty-ninth Judicial District, 1982–1996; Judge pro tempore, Court of Appeal, First Circuit, Louisiana, 1990 [34]
Martha A. Madden 2005 Consultant and president of mMadden Associates, LLC, former Special Assistant at the U.S. Department of Energy and is the former Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, served on two Homeland Security Task Forces at the Center for Strategic & International Studies [35]
Roberta Madden (b. 1936) 2003 Writer, book editor, first director of the Baton Rouge Consumer Protection Center. Co-founder of the Baton Rouge chapter of the National Organization for Women. Served on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Louisiana State Advisory Committee. Baton Rouge Council of Human Relations, Association of American University Women, Louisiana Women's Political Caucus, Women's Equality Alliance League, Baton Rouge Mayor-President's Commission on the Needs of Women. [36]
Barbara Mansfield 2000 Former president National Federation of Democratic Women [37]
Leslie Marsh 2015 Outstanding Activists for The Center for Women, Advisory Board for The Center and The Son of a Saint. Donor Relations Officer, Tulane University
Virginia "Ginny" Martinez (1922–1992) 1994 Louisiana Republican Party National Committeewoman; Louisiana Federation of Republican Women created the Ginny Martinez Scholarship in her honor. [38]
Corinne D. Maybuce deceased 1994 Regional Director Delta Sigma Theta 1955–58, 1970–72 [39]
Phyllis Mayo 2009 First woman elected to the Alexandria City Council; executive committees of the Louisiana Democratic Party. Special assistant to the governor on women's policy, organizing the first Gathering of Louisiana Women Leaders [40]
Demetric Mercadel 2013
Anne Milling 2009 Past president of the Junior League of New Orleans Inc. and past chair of the Loyola University Board of Trustees. [41]
Margaret D. Montgomery-Richard 2001 Co-owner DMM & Associates [42]
Ellen Bryan Moore (1912–1999) 1995 Louisiana Register of State Lands [43]
Sybil Haydel Morial 1999 Retired Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Louisiana Board of Directors; founder of the Louisiana League of Good Government, active in women's rights and civil rights [44]
LilyB Moskal 2009 (*Note: the spelling of LilyB is not a typo), Founder of Success Seminars, motivational workshops [45]
Willie Mount Mayor Willie Mount.jpg (b. 1949) 2013 Member of the Louisiana State Senate from 2000 to 2012
Nell Nolan 2015 Journalist for The Advocate, Blue Ribbon Award for Media
Barbara Norton 2005 Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives [46]
Ollie Tucker Osborne (1911–1994) 1995 Real estate business woman, 1973 Louisiana League of Women Voters' official observer of the state constitutional convention, women's rights activist [47]
Mary Evelyn Parker (1920–2015) 1994 First woman to have held the position Louisiana State Treasurer [48]
Alice Pecararo 2011 Council for a Better Louisiana, Louisiana State Board of Commerce and Industry and the Louisiana Endowment of Humanities. [49]
Darlene L. Pellegrin 2003
Faith Peperone 2010 Founder Metropolitan Republican Women's Club [3]
Margaret Gamble Pereboom (1928–2008) 2003 Psychologist, chair Louisiana Women in Politics, Louisiana Health Care Campaign [50]
Myrtle Pickering deceased 1997
Karen Puckett 2015 President of Global Markets for CenturyLink
Adele Ransom 2011 first woman to have been elected to the Ouachita Police Jury. She is a member of the Ouachita Correctional Center Advisory Board and the Ouachita Board of Commissioners [49]
Doris B. Reggie 1997 Civic-engaged wife of Edmund Reggie; second mother-in-law of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat activist [51]
Doris Lindsey Holland Rhodes (1909–1997) 1994 First woman to serve in Louisiana legislature; first as state senator and then as state representative from St. Helena Parish [52]
Jean Rice 2011 The Louisiana Center for Women and Government [49]
Rupert F. Richardson (1930–2008) 1994 Former national president of NAACP [53]
Beth Rickey (1956–2009) 2000 Republican political activist from Louisiana who exposed the neo-Nazi connections of former State Representative David Duke, who ran for the U.S. Senate and for governor of Louisiana [54]
Sandy Rosenthal 2008 Civic organizer who founded Levees.org/ in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina [55]
Norma Jane Sabiston 2002 Political consultant [56]
Melinda Schwegmann (b. 1946) 2007 First woman Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana [57]
Virginia Shehee (1923-2015) 1994 Louisiana State Senator for District 38 (Caddo and De Soto parishes), 1976-1980 [58]
Marie Louise Wilcox Snellings (1912–1994) 1997 Tulane University Board of Administrators; mother-in-law of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu [59]
Dolores Spikes (b. 1936) 2008 President Southern University and A&M College, president University of Maryland Eastern Shore [60]
Leslie Robichaux Suazo 2010 director of Coastal Restoration and Preservation for Terrebonne Parish and community relations coordinator for the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program. [3]
Linda Talbert 1998 Nurse [61]
Cecile B. Tauzin 2001 Board of Trustees, Ford Theatre, Washington D.C. [62]
Phyllis Taylor 2008 Philanthropist, chairman and chief executive officer Taylor EnergyCompany [13]
Suzanne Terrell (b. 1954) 2011 Former Louisiana Elections Commissioner, Senior advisor and director of outreach for the Economic Development Administration in the United States Department of Commerce under President George W. Bush; lost 2002 Senate election to Mary Landrieu. [49]
Marilyn Thayer (b. circa 1929) 2000 Republican Party activist, president of the National Federation of Republican Women, 1996-1997; state co-chair, Reagan-Bush Committee[63]
Lena Torris 2013 Clerk of Court for St. Bernard Parish
Brandie Toups 2015 Outstanding Activists for The Center for Women, Louisiana Girls Leadership Academy
Gayle F. Truly 1997 Member of the Louisiana Violent Crime and Homicide Task Force [64]
Kathy M. Vick (1939–2011) 1996 Democratic Party worker who called roll-call votes at national conventions [65]
Lillian W. Walker (b. 1923) 1996 Former Louisiana State Representative from East Baton Rouge Parish 1968–1972 [66]
Dorothy H. Wallace deceased 1996
Vanessa Whipple-Chiefe 2015 Chief Judge, Louisiana’s First Circuit Court of Appeal [67]
Pinkie Wilkerson (1948–2000) 2007 Former Louisiana State Representative from District 11 (Claiborne and parts of Bienville, Lincoln, and Union parishes) [68]
Mary Ellen Wisham (1916–2012 ) 1999 Undersecretary of Management and Finance for the Louisiana Department of Labor [69]
Donnell Zeringue 2015 Outstanding Activists for The Center for Women, chair of the Public Service Project for The Center’s Louisiana Girls Leadership Academy. Lafourche Commission on Women, National Leaders Summit and The Louisiana Leaders Conference

See also

References

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