Tennessee Women's Hall of Fame

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The Tennessee Women's Hall of Fame is a non-profit, volunteer organization that recognizes women who have contributed to history of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

History

The organization was founded and incorporated as a non-profit organization in 2010 to recognize accomplished women who have impacted the development of the state of Tennessee and improved the status of other women.[1] It is the brainchild of the Women's Economic Council Foundation, Inc. and the Tennessee Economic Council on Women.[2]

Criteria

The criteria for induction into the Tennessee Women's Hall of Fame is that women were born in and achieved recognition within the state; are or have a resident in Tennessee for an extended period of time or adopted Tennessee as their home state. Additional criteria includes women who,:[3]

  • Have made significant, unique and permanent contributions to the economic, political and cultural betterment of Tennessee;
  • Have elevated the status of women;
  • Have promoted other women and women’s issues;
  • Have been advocates for those issues which are important to women and families

Inductees

The hall inducts new members annually or bi-annually and includes both contemporary and historical women or organizations which benefit women.[4]

Tennessee Women's Hall of Fame
Name Image Birth–Death Year Area of achievement
Joy Bishop (1934-) 2015 First career Air Force woman appointed to the Senior Executive Service[5] and served as the Women's Program Coordinator.[6]
Lizzie Crozier French 150px (1851-1926) 2015 Founder of the Knoxville Female Institute and the Tennessee Suffrage Association[7]
Elizabeth Rona (de) (1890-1981) 2015 First woman to teach chemistry in any university in Hungary, in the United States, she served on the Manhattan Project[8]
Janice M. Holder (1949-) 2015 First woman Chief Justice of Tennessee[9]
Rosetta Miller-Perry (1934-)[10] 2015 Founder of the Greater Nashville Black Chamber of Commerce, and co-founder, publisher and journalist of Perry & Perry Publishing Company[11]
Margaret Rhea Seddon Margaret Rhea Seddon.jpg (1947-) 2015 One of the inaugural group of women astronauts of NASA[12]
Zulfat Suara 2015[13] Chair and founder of the American Muslim Council of Tennessee[14]
Carol Gardner Transou 2015 1987 Tennessee Teacher of the Year and first Tennessee Teacher-Scholar of the National Endowment for the Humanities[15]
Margaret L. Behm (c. 1951)[16] 2013 Co-founded Shipley & Behm, the first all-woman law firm in Nashville[17]
Wilsie S. Bishop (1949)[18] 2013 First woman Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of East Tennessee State University[19]
M. Inez Crutchfield (c. 1925-)[20] 2013 First African American to hold an appointed and elected statewide position in the Tennessee State Federation of Democratic Women[21]
Shirley C. Raines (1945-)[22] 2013 President of the University of Memphis[23]
Becca Stevens (1963-) 2013 Founder of Magdalene House[24]
Jocelyn Wurzburg (1940-)[25] 2013 Orchestrated an interfaith and inter-racial group response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.[26]
Pat Summitt Pat-Summitt-Walter-Reed-Center-06-24-08-2.jpg (1952-) 2011 Most all-time wins for a coach in NCAA basketball history of either a men's or women's team in any division[27]
Martha Craig Daughtrey (1942-) 2010 First Tennessee woman to be appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit[28]
Jane G. Eskind (1933-) 2010 First woman to win a statewide election in Tennessee[29]

References

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