Eastern Kentucky

Minnie Adkins - Art
Nelda Barton-Collings - Business
Nancy Blackburn - Business
Mary Carson Breckinridge - Health/Medicine
Louise Caudill, M.D. - Health/Medicine
Judge Sara Combs - Law
Elizabeth Barrett, Ann Lewis, Mimi Pickering, Justine Richardson - Art
Mary Elliott Flanery - Public Service
Katherine Jackson French - Music
Crystal Gayle - Music
Geri Grigsby - Sports
Sarah Ogan Gunning - Music
Mary Magdalene (Aunt Molly) Jackson - Music
Ashley Judd - Performing Arts
Naomi and Wynona Judd - Music
Juanita Morris Kreps - Public Service
U.S. Rep. Katherine Gudger Langley - Public Service
Lily May Ledford - Music
Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd - Education
Loretta Lynn - Music
Belinda Mason - Reform
Alice Jane Mayo - Business
Patricia Neal - Performing Arts
Linda Neville - Health/Medicine
Judi Conway Patton - Reform
Katherine Pettit - Education
Charlotte Richardson - Reform
Jean Ritchie - Music
Joan Robinett - Reform
Alice Slone - Education
Verna Mae Slone - Literature
Effie Waller Smith - Literature
Lillian H. South, M.D. - Health/Medicine
Cora Wilson Stewart - Education
May Stone - Education
Jean Bell Thomas - Music
Marie Roberts Turner - Education
Jenny Wiley - Pioneer
Evelyn Williams - Reform

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A. What

Art
Business
Education
Health/Medicine
Journalism
Law
Literature
Military
Music
Performing Arts
Pioneer
Public Service
Reform
Religion
Science
Sports

B. When

View a selected history of women
View a selected history of women
Sounds and images
Civil War Diaries

C. Where

Central / Northern Kentucky
Western Kentucky
Eastern Kentucky
Southern Kentucky

D.Resources

Links
Selected Readings
Educational Tools
Web tools
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