Central / Northern Kentucky

Elmer Lucille Allen - Science
Frances Estill Beauchamp - Reform
Jennie Benedict - Business
Malinda Gatewood Bibb - Reform
Sallie Bingham - Reform
Linda Boileau - Journalism
Ruth Booe - Business
Anne Braden - Reform
Madeline McDowell Breckinridge - Reform
Sophonisba Breckinridge - Law
Mary Britton - Health/Medicine
Clara Brown - Reform
Terri Cecil-Ramsey - Sports
Lt. Anna Mac Clarke - Military
Laura Clay - Reform
Mary Barr Clay - Reform
Rosemary Clooney - Music
Jane Burch Cochran - Art
Governor Martha Layne Collins - Public Service
Martha Comer - Journalism
Jane Coomes - Education
Carmen Ray Coyle - Art
Diane Dailey - Sports
Mary Desha - Reform
Julia Dinsmore - Business
Bettie Lou Evans - Sports
Helen Evans - Military
Verna D. Fairchild - Military
Elizabeth Cooke Fouse - Reform
Laura Freeman - Business
Heather French - Performing Arts
Helen Fisher Frye - Reform
Margaret Garner - Reform
Mary “Cissy” Peterson Gregg - Business
Eula Hall - Reform
Allyson Hughes Handley - Education
Susan Harkins - Business
Josephine Henry - Reform
Helen Humes - Music
Louise Hutchins, M.D. - Health/Medicine
Margaret Ingels - Science
Belle (Mitchell) Jackson - Education
Grace James, M.D.- Health/Medicine
Gayle Jones - Literature
Evelyn Kalb - Public Service
Rep. Mae Street Kidd - Public Service
Barbara Kingsolver - Literature
Helen Lew Lang - Education
Alma Lesch - Art
Mary Todd Lincoln - Public Service
Bernadette Locke-Mattox - Sports
Mattie Mack - Business
Lucille Markey - Business
Tori Murden-McClure - Sports
Ann McGinty - Pioneer
Tamara McKinney - Sports
Una Merkel - Performing Arts
Capt. Mary Garretson Miller - Business
Lucy Dupey Montz - Health/Medicine
Lois Morris - Reform
Judge Kathleen Mulligan - Law
Elaine Musselman - Business
Carry Nation - Reform
Marsha Norman - Literature
Susan Pfeiffer - Art
Lena Madesin Phillips - Business
Mary T. Meagher Plant - Sports
Sen. Georgia Montgomery Powers - Public Service
Reel World String Band - Music
Rabbi Gaylia Rooks - Religion
Winnie A. Scott - Health/medicine
Rebekka Seigel - Art
Dixie Seldon - Art
Ellen Churchill Semple - Science
Mary Carmichael Settles - Religion
Lucy Harth Smith - Education
Louise Southgate, M.D. - Health/Medicine
Mother Catherine Spalding - Religion
Jane Stephenson - Education
Julia Ann Tevis - Education
Helen Thomas - Journalism
Rep. Amelia Tucker - Public Service
Delia Webster - Reform
Enid Yandell - Art

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A. What

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Literature
Military
Music
Performing Arts
Pioneer
Public Service
Reform
Religion
Science
Sports

B. When

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C. Where

Central / Northern Kentucky
Western Kentucky
Eastern Kentucky
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D.Resources

Links
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Archival Collections
Children's Books

E. About this Project

Women in Sports:

Minnie Adkins
Elizabeth Barret, Anne Lewis, Mimi Pickering, & Justine Richardson
Jane Burch Cochran
Joan Dance
Enid Yandell

Women in Business:

Nelda Barton-Collings
Julia Dinsmore
Laura Freeman
Mattie Mack
Lena Madesin Phillips
Caroline Burnam Taylor

Women in Education:

Helen Lew Lang
Katherine Pettit
Jane Stephenson
Cora Wilson Stewart

Women in Health/Medicine:

Mary Britton
Linda Neville
Ora Framer Porter
Louise Southgate, M.D.

Women in Journalism:

Linda Boileau
Alice Allison Dunnigan

Women in Law:

Pearl Carter Pace
Lt. Colonel Linda Smith

Women in Literature:

Effie Waller Smith

Women in Military:

Lt. Anna Mac Clarke
Capt. Helen Horlacher Evans
Julia Ann Marcum

Women in Music:

Sarah Ogan Gunning
Helen Humes
Lily May Ledford
Reel World String Band
Jean Ritchie
Mary Wheeler

Women as Pioneers:

Esther Whitley

Women in Public Service:

Governor Martha Layne Collins
Emma Guy Cromwell
Rep. Mary Elliott Flanery
Sen. Georgia Davis Powers
Lt. Gov. Thelma Stovall

Women in Reform:

Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
Laura Clay
Eula Hall
Josephine Henry
Belinda Mason
Lois Morris
Eliza Caroline Calvert Obenchain
Charlotte Richardson
Joan Robinett
Mary Sue Whayne
Corinne Whitehead
Evelyn Williams

Women in Religion:

Eldress Nancy Moore
Rabbi Gaylia Rooks

Women in Science:

Sarah Frances Price
Ellen Churchill Semple

Women in Sports:

Terri Cecil-Ramsey
Geri Grigsby
Audrey Whitlock Peterson
Mary T. Meagher Plant