Georgia Women of Achievement

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The Georgia Women of Achievement (GWA) recognizes women natives or residents of the U.S. state of Georgia for their significant achievements or statewide contributions. The concept was first proposed by Rosalynn Carter in 1988. The first induction was in 1992 at Wesleyan College, and has continued annually. The induction ceremonies are held each year during March, designated as Women's History Month. The organization consists of a Board of Trustees and a Board of Selections.[1] Nominees must have been dead no less than ten years. Georgians, or those associated with Georgia, are selected based on the individual's impact on society. Nominations are proposed through documentation and an online nomination form, and must be submitted prior to October of any given year. GWA has traveling exhibits and speakers available upon request.[2]

Inductees

Georgia Women of Achievement
Name Image Birth–Death Year Area of achievement Ref(s)
Eliza Frances (Fanny) Andrews 100px (1840–1931) 2006 Botanist [3]
Madeleine Kiker Anthony (1903–1989) 2003 Historic preservationist who helped save the old courthouse on Dahlonega, Georgia, now the Dahlonega Gold Museum Historic Site [4]
Susan Cobb Milton Atkinson (1860–1942) 1996 First Lady of Georgia, wife of Governor William Yates Atkinson; proponent of a state-supported college for women [5]
Sarah Randolph Bailey (1885–1972) 2012 Educator who organized the YWCA-sponsored Girl Reserves for African-American girls [6]
Dicksie Bradley Bandy (1890–1971) 1993 Philanthropist, businesswoman, campaigned to restore the historic Cherokee Chief Vann House Historic Site [7]
Elfrida De Renne Barrow (1884–1970) 2008 Author, poet [8]
Mathilda Beasley (1832–1903) 2004 Former slave, Georgia's first African-American Catholic nun [9]
Martha McChesney Berry 100px (1866–1942) 1992 Founder of Berry College [10]
Nellie Peters Black (1851–1919) 1996 Women's issues organizer and activist [11]
Mary Musgrove Bosomworth (1700–1765) 1993 Creek Indian woman who served as an interpreter for James Oglethorpe [12]
Selena Sloan Butler Selena Sloan Butler.jpg (1872–1964) 1995 Founder of first African-American PTA [13]
Margaret O. Bynum (1921–1982) 2007 Educator [14]
Lillian Gordy Carter 100px (1898–1983) 2011 Mother of President Jimmy Carter; Peace Corps worker; nurse; businesswoman [15]
Helena Maud Brown Cobb (1869–1922) 2003 Missionary, educator [16]
Julia L. Coleman (1889–1973) 2001 Educator [17]
Mary Francis Hill Coley (1900–1966) 2011 Midwife, subject of All My Babies [18]
Wessie Gertrude Connell (1915–1987) 2002 Librarian [19]
Ellen Smith Craft Ellen Craft escaped slave.jpg (1826–1891) 1996 Escaped slave, educator [20]
Sallie Ellis Davis (1877–1950) 2000 Educator [21]
Julia Lester Dillon (1871–1959) 2003 Landscape architect [22]
Henrietta Stanley Dull (1863–1964) 2013 Caterer, journalist, author (as S. R. Dull) of Southern Cooking [23]
Cassandra Pickett Durham (1824–1885) 1993 First woman in Georgia to earn a doctor of medicine degree [24]
Lettie Pate Evans LettiePateWhiteheadEvans.jpg (1872–1953) 1998 Philanthropist, on board of directors of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. [25]
Rebecca Latimer Felton Rebecca L. Felton.png (1835–1930) 1997 First woman to serve in the United States Senate; women's rights advocate [26]
Julia Flisch (1861–1941) 1994 Journalist, women's rights advocate, educator [27]
Edith Lenora Foster (1906–1996) 2007 Librarian, writer, historian [28]
Mary Ann Harris Gay (1829–1918) 1997 Author [29]
Amilee Chastain Graves (1910–1983) 2008 Publisher; first woman to hold elected office in Habersham County [30]
Grace Towns Hamilton (1907–1992) 2006 First African-American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly [31]
Ethel Harpst (1883–1967) 2012 Founder of the Ethel Harpst Home for children [32]
Corra Mae White Harris (1869–1935) 1996 Author [33]
Julia Collier Harris (1885–1967) 1998 Journalist, civic leader, editor [34]
Allie Carroll Hart (1913–2003) 2015 Worked to preserve government records and photographs; established the Georgia Archives Institute for professional development; helped create the Southeast Archives and Records Conference; Faithful Service Award 1971 from Gov. Jimmy Carter, Outstanding Achievement Award from the Georgia Trust in 1997 and 2000, Brenau University Alumni Hall of Fame 2002 [35]
Nancy Morgan Hart Nancy Hart.jpg (1735–1830) 1997 Namesake of Hart County; frontier woman, American patriot, spy for the colonial army during the American War of Independence [36]
Laura Askew Haygood (1845–1900) 2000 Educator, missionary [37]
Louise Frederick Hays (1881–1951) 2004 Historian, director Georgia Department of Archives and History [38]
Sarah Porter Hillhouse (1763–1831) 2006 First woman editor and printer in Georgia [39]
Lugenia Burns Hope (1871–1947) 1996 Social reformer [40]
May duBignon Stiles Howard (1894–1983) 2011 Health care [41]
Anna Colquitt Hunter (1892–1985) 1995 Historic preservationist [42]
Mary Gregory Jewett (1908–1976) 2013 Founder and first President of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation [43]
Rhoda Kaufman (1888–1956) 1998 Social activist [44]
Lucy Craft Laney (1854–1933) 1992 Educator, hospital administrator [45]
Mary Ann Lipscomb (1848–1918) 2010 Educator [46]
Carrie Steele Logan (1829–1900) 1998 Founded Carrie Steele Orphans' Home [47]
Helen Dortch Longstreet 100px (1863–1962) 2004 Social activist [48]
Juliette Gordon Low Edward Hughes - Juliette Gordon Low - Google Art Project.jpg (1860–1927) 1992 Founder of Girl Scouts of the USA [49]
Helen Douglas Mankin 100px (1894–1956) 2007 First woman elected to the United States Congress from Georgia [50]
Sara Branham Matthews (1888–1962) 2007 Scientist who discovered a treatment for spinal meningitis [51]
Carson McCullers Carsonmccullers.jpg (1917–1967) 1994 Author [52]
Lula Dobbs McEachern (1874–1949) 2002 Educator, missionary, philanthropist [53]
Lucy Barrow McIntire (1886–1975) 1997 Civic activist [54]
Alice Woodby McKane (1865–1948) 2005 First female doctor in Savannah [55]
Moina Belle Michael 00MoinaMichael.jpg (1869–1944) 1999 Originated the idea of using poppies to remember the war dead; honored with a United States postage stamp in 1948 [56]
Caroline Pafford Miller (1903–1992) 2009 Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1934 for her first novel, Lamb in His Bosom, the first Georgian to win the Pulitzer for Fiction. [57]
Margaret Mitchell Margaret Mitchell NYWTS.jpg (1900–1949) 1994 Author of Gone with the Wind [58]
Ruth Hartley Mosley (1886–1975) 1994 Philanthropist [59]
Sarah McLendon Murphy (1892–1954) 2004 Children's activist [60]
Susan Dowdell Myrick (1893–1978) 2008 Journalist, technical advisor for Gone with the Wind movie [61]
Viola Ross Napier (1881–1962) 1993 Member Georgia House of Representatives [62]
Beulah Rucker Oliver (1888–1963) 2012 Educator [63]
Flannery O'Connor 100px (1925–1964) 1992 Author [64]
Nina Anderson Pape (1869–1944) 2005 Educator [65]
Frances Freeborn Pauley (1905–2003) 2015 League of Women Voters; President of the DeKalb League; Georgia League President; Executive Director of the Georgia Council on Human Relations; activist with the Office of Civil Rights who worked to implement the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [66]
Harriet Powers Harriet Powers 1901.png (1837–1910) 2009 Quilt maker, creator of the Bible Quilt now in the possession of the National Museum of American History [67]
Hazel Raines (1916–1956) 1995 First woman in Georgia to earn a pilot's license (private license, and commercial license with Eastern Air Lines), stunt pilot, Lieutenant of Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II, flew with the (British) Air Transport Auxiliary, trained Brazilian air students, recalled into active duty to fly in the Korean War, inducted into Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame [68]
Gertrude Pridgett "Ma" Rainey MaRainey.jpg (1886–1939) 1993 Blues singer [69]
Jeannette Pickering Rankin RankinJ.jpg (1880–1973) 2005 First woman elected to the United States House of Representatives [70]
Celestine Sibley (1914–1999) 2010 Journalist [71]
Lillian Eugenia Smith 100px (1897–1966) 1999 Author of Strange Fruit, a 1944 novel about interracial love [72]
Alice Harrell Strickland (1859–1947) 2002 Georgia's first woman mayor [73]
Rebecca Stiles Taylor (1879–1958) 2014 First president of the Savannah chapter of the National Association of Colored Women [74]
Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas (1834–1907) 2014 Memoirist [75]
Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman (1794–1885) 1994 Founder of the first public high school for girls in Augusta [76]
Bazoline Estelle Usher (1885–1992) 2014 Atlanta’s first Supervisor of Negro Schools [77]
Catherine Evans Whitener (1880–1964) 2001 Revived the textile art of tufting into a profitable business [78]
Leila Ross Wilburn (1885–1967) 2003 Georgia's first registered female architect [79]
Madrid Williams (1911–1993) 2010 First female president of the National Association of Bar Executives [80]
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson ELWilson.jpg (1860–1914) 2000 First Lady of the United States, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson [81]
Nell Kendall Hodgson Woodruff (1892–1968) 2015 American Red Cross; volunteer; first female member of the Emory Hospital Administration Committee; Eisenhower appointee to attend the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland; created the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing [82]
Emily Barnelia Woodward (1885–1970) 2004 Journalist [83]
Lollie Belle Moore Wylie (1858–1923) 2013 Writer [84]
Jane Hurt Yarn (1924–1995) 2009 Environmentalist, conservationist [85]

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