Michigan Women's Hall of Fame

File:Betty Ford, official White House photo color, 1974.jpg

Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States and Michigan Women's Hall of Fame inductee

The Michigan Women's Hall of Fame (MWHOF) honors distinguished women, both historical and contemporary, who have been associated with the U.S. state of Michigan. The hall of fame was founded in 1983 by Gladys Beckwith and is sponsored by the Michigan Women's Studies Association.<ref name="history">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref> The formation of the Association and the Hall was prompted by five professors from Michigan State University, who were teaching a Women in American Society course.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Nominations to the hall of fame are accepted from the public and are open to women who rose to prominence in or were born in Michigan, as well as those who have lived in the state for an extended period. A screening committee ranks the nominations by merit and a second committee makes the final determination, generally selecting eight to ten women annually for induction. Inductees are honored at a ceremony and dinner in October and are presented with a bronze Lifetime Achievement Award.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> As of 2021, the Hall of Fame contains over 340 inductees.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The MWHOF was housed in the Cooley-Haze House, built in 1903 and located at 213 W. Malcolm X St. (formerly W. Main Street), directly south of downtown Lansing, Michigan. It contained a resource library, as well as exhibit galleries dedicated to preserving and presenting Michigan women's history and art. The house was opened to the public on June 10, 1987. The center also contained the Belen Gallery, which featured art from Michigan women.<ref name="history"/>

Michigan Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame moved to its current location in Meridian Mall, 110 W. Allegan St., Suite 10 in 2017.

Hall of Fame honorees

Michigan Women's Hall of Fame

Name	Image	Birth–death	Year	Area of achievement	Template:Abbr
Template:Sort	File:Gretchen Whitmer (2021) (cropped).jpg	(b. 1971)	2023	Governor of Michigan	<ref name="2023DetroitChamber">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort		(b. 1983)	2023	Oakland County Circuit Court Judge	<ref name="2023DetroitChamber" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sort		(1954–2021)	2023	Public relations pioneer and political activist	<ref name="2023DetroitChamber" />
Template:Sort			2023	Group which planned, started, and ran the Traverse Township Library	<ref name="2023DetroitChamber" />
Template:Sort		(1920–2011)	2022	Founder of Motown Historical Museum; first woman to serve on the 40-person board of the Central Business District Association	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	File:Carol Hutchins in 2005.jpg	(b. 1957)	2022	Head coach of Michigan Wolverines softball; winningest coach in NCAA softball history	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort		(b. 1953)	2022	Publisher	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort		(1908–1975)	2022	Cellular biochemist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort		(b. 1981)	2022	LGBTQ Liaison for the Detroit Police Department	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort		(b. 1962)	2021	CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort		(b. 1951)	2021	Co-founder and artistic director of The Detroit-Windsor Dance Academy	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort		(1902–1981)	2021	First woman circuit court judge in Michigan	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort		(1880–1971)	2021	National Housewives League, founded Detroit Housewives League. Created Fannie B. Peck Credit Union. Created the first cemetery for African Americans in Detroit	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort		(1917–2006)	2021	Won 1945 racial discriminatinn class action lawsuit against Bob-Lo Excursion Company	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort		(b. 1951)	2021	President of the Grand Rapids Community Foundation	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1960)	2020	Detroit activist created Zaman International nonprofit to combat poverty	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=WEYI>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1918–2020)	2020	Co-founder of Trade Union Leadership Council	<ref name=WEYI/>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1939)	2020	First African American president of Marygrove College	<ref name=WEYI/>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1948)	2020	CBS Sunday Morning news correspondent	<ref name=WEYI/>
Template:Sortname		(1941–2017)	2020	NASA's Apollo 11 project; one of the "Human Math Computers" depicted in the movie Hidden Figures	<ref name=WEYI/>
Template:Sortname		(1921–2023)	2020	Bavarian Inn Co-founder	<ref name=WEYI/>
Template:Sortname	File:Margaret Kirchner Stevenson.jpg	(1920–1998)	2019	Female pilot, one of the first women to fly a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress	<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1920–2018)	2019	First woman to serve on the Michigan Circuit Court	<ref name=":0" />
Template:Sortname		(1840–1913)	2019	American educator and activist	<ref name=":0" />
Template:Sortname		(b. 1949)	2019	Politician and president of the Michigan League for Public Policy	<ref name=":0" />
Template:Sortname		(b. 1945)	2019	Health expert	<ref name=":0" />
Template:Sortname		(b. 1945)	2019	Educator	<ref name=":0" />
Template:Sortname		(c. 1797–1873)	2018	Odawa fur trader	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Mona2x.jpg	(b. 1976)	2018	Pediatrician whose research exposed the dangerous levels of lead in the water of Flint, Michigan.	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Clara Stanton Jones.jpg	(1913–2012)	2018	First African-American president of the American Library Association	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1967)	2018	Chemistry Division Director of the National Science Foundation	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1956)	2018	Civil rights, law enforcement	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
American Legion NUWARINE Post 535			2017	Michigan's last remaining all-female American Legion post	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1863–1938)	2017	First woman in Michigan to become an Assistant U.S. Attorney	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Ford Henry wife.jpg	(1866–1950)	2017	Wife of Henry Ford, created and funded programs benefiting women	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Lisette Denison Forth.jpg	(c. 1786–1866)	2017	Philanthropist, former slave	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Mary Kay Henry by Gage Skidmore.jpg	(b. 1958)	2017	President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1913–2013)	2017	Environmentalist whose legal battles ended dumping of mining waste into Lake Superior	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1923–2018)	2017	Developed Affirmative Action program at Wayne State University; helped develop the first Model Cities Comprehensive Health Care Center in the U.S.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Rosie the Riveter			2017	WWII cultural icon who appeared on numerous posters showing women at work in the war service industries	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1926–2022)	2017	Social worker who was instrumental in the passage of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1964)	2017	First female design director for General Motors	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1911–2007)	2016	Government, history, women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1944)	2016	Art, history, community service, writing	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Daisy Elliott 1965.png	(1917–2015)	2016	Government, Civil Rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1959)	2016	Religion, women's rights, community service, civil rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1913–2005)	2016	Medicine, community service	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1928–2021)	2016	Education, civil rights, community service	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname			2016	Charity organization begun by women in 1891 to provide medical care to those who cannot otherwise afford it	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Diana Ross (1981).jpg	(b. 1944)	2016	Music	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Lou Anna Simon crop.jpg	(b. 1947)	2016	Education, women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1854–1914)	2016	Art, civil rights, education, suffrage, women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Secretary Jocelyn Benson (cropped).jpg	(b. 1977)	2015	Dean of the Wayne State University Law School	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1946–2018)	2015	Member of Michigan House of Representatives; political consultant	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1950)	2015	Episcopalian minister, television and radio journalist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1931–2002)	2015	Civil rights, education, government, law	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1890–1977)	2015	Invented Jiffy mix	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Candice Miller, official portrait, 112th Congress.jpg	(b. 1954)	2015	United States House of Representatives	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1917–2016)	2015	First director of Detroit's Consumer Affairs Department	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1861–1927)	2015	Finnish immigrant who used her subsequent education and business expertise to establish a Finnish colony in Drummond Township	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1914–1976)	2015	Labor leader, women's rights activist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1943)	2015	Native American Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, United States Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War, social worker	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1886–1975)	2014	Politics; second woman elected to the Michigan House of Representatives; first woman and Democrat elected from Lansing	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1943)	2014	Michigan State University administrator and professor	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1928)	2014	General manager of WXYZ-TV/Detroit and vice president of ABC Television	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1940)	2014	President Emeritus of the Council of Michigan Foundations; Johnson Center for Philanthropy	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Julie Krone riding Halfbridled at 2003 Breeders' cup.jpg	(b. 1963)	2014	Thoroughbred jockey Julie Krone is the only woman to ride the winner of a Triple Crown event (the 1993 Belmont Stakes), the first woman to win a Breeders’ Cup event (2003 Juvenile Fillies), and the first woman to win a million-dollar event (2003 Pacific Classic).	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1888–1962)	2014	Sister of Mercy order; opened the first Central School of Nursing in Michigan (the second in the country)	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1940)	2014	Politics; State Board of Education; seconded the nomination of vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1936–2019)	2014	Hispanic rights; first Hispanic woman on the Lansing Community College Board of Trustees	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1960)	2014	Business; former chairwoman and CEO of the Rush Group Family of Companies; founded the largest Native American-owned business in the United States.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1940)	2014	Founder of Two Men and a Truck moving company	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Portrait of Lucille Farrier Stickel.jpg	(1915–2007)	2014	Environmentalist; first woman to direct a major Federal laboratory	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1937)	2013	Advocate for the rights of people with disabilities	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1928–2022)	2013	Jewish historian, author, archivist, and exhibit curator	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname			2013	The 11 women delegates at the 1961–1962 Michigan Constitutional Convention: Vera Andrus, Ruth Gibson Butler, Anne M. Conklin, Katherine Moore Cushman, Ann Elizabeth Donnelly, Daisy Elizabeth Elliott, Adelaide Julia Hart, Lillian Hatcher, Dorothy Leonard Judd, Ella Demmink Koeze, and Marjorie Frances McGowan	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1949)	2013	First female president of Lansing Community College	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Elizabeth Jane (Bess) Eaglesfield, first woman to practice law in Indiana.jpg	(1853–1940)	2013	Businesswoman and one of the first female steamship captains on Lake Michigan	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1948–2022)	2013	Advocate for the poor, homeless, and mentally ill	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1928–2023)	2013	Educator and advocate for women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Harriet.quimby.jpg	(1875–1912)	2013	Early American aviator and movie screenwriter	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1935)	2013	Vice president of Public Affairs at General Motors	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:L. Anna Ballard.jpg	(1848–1934)	2012	Medicine; Lansing's first female medical doctor.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1929–2020)	2012	Women's studies	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1954)	2012	First woman director of the Michigan Department of Corrections	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1927–2020)	2012	Environment	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Eva McCall Hamilton portrait1.jpg	(1871–1948)	2012	First woman elected to the Michigan Legislature in 1920	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1944)	2012	Women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname			2012	Formed in 1962 by African American mothers, to mentor and fund young African American women debutantes	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1846–1923)	2012	Women's rights and African-American rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Serena Williams Madrid 2014.jpg	(b. 1981)	2012	Tennis	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1933–2022)	2011	Education	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1959)	2011	First vice chair of the Arab American Chamber of Commerce	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Marilyn Jean Kelly 1967.png	(b. 1938)	2011	67th Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1846–1930)	2011	Community service	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1922–2017)	2011	First female president of the Lansing Mexican Patriotic Committee, and president of the Hispanic Cultural Center	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1958)	2011	Civil rights, law, women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1939)	2011	Law, politics	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1966)	2011	USA Wrestling Women's Wrestler of the Year twice and the U.S. Olympic Committee Women's Wrestler of the Year three times.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1928–2013)	2010	Community service, education, women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1927)	2010	Women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Augusta Jane Chapin.jpg	(1836–1905)	2010	American Universalist minister, educator and activist for women's rights.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1940)	2010	Executive director of Capitol Area Transport Authority	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Annie Etheridge with Kearny Cross medal.jpg	(1840–1913)	2010	Civil War nurse	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1947)	2010	Business	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1934–2021)	2010	Education, law	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Terry McMillan at the 2008 Brooklyn Book Festival.jpg	(b. 1951)	2010	Writer	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Edith Cushnay Munger.jpg	(1865–1945)	2010	Environment, bird conservationist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1959)	2010	Strategic Staffing Solutions	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Grace Lee Boggs 2012.jpg	(1915–2015)	2009	Civil rights	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Margaret Bailey Chandler		(1929–1997)	2009	Native American rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1899–2000)	2009	Business, gay rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Edna Ferber.jpg	(1885–1968)	2009	Pulitzer Prize winning author whose works were adapted to movies and stage productions	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1939)	2009	Education	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1942–2022)	2009	Native American rights, women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1937)	2009	Education	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1950)	2009	Dentistry, Native American rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1922–2021)	2009	Mental health	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Marlo Thomas (2914188425).jpg	(b. 1937)	2009	Community service, entertainment, women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1923–2013)	2008	Women's rights, writing	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort		(b. 1936)	2008	First executive director chosen by the Michigan Women's Commission	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1948)	2008	Film maker. Served as an aide to Maryann Mahaffey and to US Congressman John Conyers	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1940)	2008	Founding member of Michigan Women's Political Caucus	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Jane Johnston Schoolcraft.jpg	(1800–1842)	2008	First known Native American writer, granddaughter of Ojibwe chief Waubojeeg	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1880–1980)	2008	Founded the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, president of the Kalamazoo Musical Society	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1941–2001)	2008	President Madonna University	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1935–2021)	2007	Michigan State House of Representatives	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1871–1922)	2007	Education	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Emma Jane Cole.jpg	(1845–1910)	2007	Environmentalist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1945)	2007	Founder, president, and CEO of the Arab American and Chaldean Council	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1862–1932)	2007	Health care, lecturer for the Battle Creek Sanitarium	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1922–2015)	2007	Aviator, women's rights. Tested for fitness to enter NASA's astronaut training program, submitting to the same physical and psychological tests administered to the Mercury 7 astronauts.	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1818–1869)	2007	Education, women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1953–2023)	2007	Michigan State University trustee, president Central Michigan University	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname			2007	114 women who signed a charter in 1896 to establish the Woman's Hospital Association	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Martha Strickland Clark.jpg	(1853–1935)	2006	First woman to argue a case before the Michigan Supreme Court. Orator on women's suffrage, temperance, and finance	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1924–2015)	2006	Women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1925–2001)	2006	Community service	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1937)	2006	Government, women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1925–1965)	2006	Civil Rights Activist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1936)	2006	Essayist, novelist, poet	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Dora Hall Stockman (8382581592).jpg	(1872–1948)	2006	Michigan House of Representatives	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1916–2011)	2006	History, Native American rights, senior research fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Margaret Chiara.jpg	(b. 1943)	2005	United States Attorney – Western District of Michigan	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1935–2020)	2005	President of the Lansing Community College Foundation	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1930–2023)	2005	Medicine, health care	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1912–2008)	2005	Math, science, medicine, health care
Template:Sortname		(b. 1936)	2005	First woman to chair the Michigan Democratic Party	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Debbie Stabenow, official portrait 2.jpg	(b. 1950)	2005	United States Senator	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1897–1983)	2005	Assistant Attorney General for Michigan; drafted the 1979 Michigan School Code	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1935–2020)	2005	First African American to head a division of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1941–2015)	2005	98th Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court in 1995, named Chief Justice of the Court in 1999	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1940)	2005	Executive director of Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1926–2003)	2004	First black woman in the United States to be elected to a judgeship	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Jennifer Granholm 5.jpg	(b. 1959)	2004	47th Governor of Michigan	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1858–1951)	2004	Director of the Detroit Visiting Nurses Association	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1933–2023)	2004	President and chief executive officer of The WW Group, Inc.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1954)	2004	Founder, president, and CEO of the Detroit Entrepreneurship Institute	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1885–1941)	2004	Author specializing in notable American figures and American history	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1909–1982)	2003	Advocate for deaf and hearing-impaired children, and special education programs	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1896–2005)	2003	Community service	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1899–1987)	2003	Participant in the Selma to Montgomery marches; co-chair of the southwest Detroit United Citizens	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1920–2017)	2003	Michigan Department of Civil Rights, Liaison to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1928)	2003	Educator, activist, and advocate for improving lives of working-class individuals	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Eliza Seaman Leggett.jpg	(1815–1900)	2003	Abolition, suffrage, women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1893–1980)	2003	Law enforcement	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1918–2004)	2003	Pioneering aviator	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Bernice Trimble Steadman in 1995.jpg	(1925–2015)	2003	Mercury 13 astronaut	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1948)	2003	Law enforcement, first woman warden of a male correctional institution in Michigan.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1929)	2003	Founder of the Student Advocacy Center of Michigan	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1927–2010)	2002	Governor's Committee on the Status of Women, Michigan Women's Commission	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Julia Wheelock Freeman (1833-1900).png	(1833–1900)	2002	Civil War nurse with the Michigan Soldiers Relief Association	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1920–2006)	2002	Peace movement, conflict resolution	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1847–1917)	2002	Suffrage	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1923–2020)	2002	Poet and English professor emeritus of English at Eastern Michigan University	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Lucille H. McCollough.png	(1905–1996)	2002	Politics	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1942)	2002	Politics	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Martha Louise Rayne.JPG	(1836–1911)	2002	Journalism	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1927)	2002	Math, science	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Cora Reynolds Anderson.png	(1882–1950)	2001	The first woman, and the first Native American, to serve in the Michigan House of Representatives	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1912–2010)	2001	Politics	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1810–1892)	2001	Missionary	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Aretha Franklin.png	(1942–2018)	2001	Entertainment	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1947)	2001	Track and field athletic coach	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1933)	2001	Co-founder of Little Caesars Pizza, owner of Detroit Red Wings, MotorCity Casino Hotel	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1920–2010)	2001	President Emerita of the Detroit Federation of Teachers, Local 231, AFL-CIO,	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1912–2000)	2001	Community service	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1915–1999)	2000	Helped develop the vaccine against Whooping Cough	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1910–2003)	2000	Education	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1933–1979)	2000	Civil rights, education	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Cornelia Kennedy.jpg	(1923–2014)	2000	Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1916–1998)	2000	Education, women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1931–2016)	2000	Math, science	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1925–2014)	2000	Education	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Katharine McCormick on April 22, 1913.png	(1875–1967)	2000	Philanthropist, women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1923)	2000	Civil rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1922–1979)	2000	Law enforcement	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1925–1996)	1999	Civil rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Olympia Brown (cropped).jpg	(1835–1926)	1999	Religion, suffrage	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1926–2010)	1999	Philanthropist, labor volunteerism	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1904–1999)	1999	Environment	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1943)	1999	Women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1885–1979)	1999	Medicine, health care	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Ella Eaton Kellogg (Good Health, 1898, v. 33, no. 5).png	(1853–1920)	1999	Philanthropist, nutrition, pioneer of dietetics	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Emily Burton Ketcham.gif	(1838–1907)	1999	Suffrage	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1936–2020)	1999	Peace movement, conflict resolution	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Connie Binsfeld.png	(1924–2014)	1998	60th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1938)	1998	Director of Office of Women and Work, founding member of Women in State Government, a founding trustee of the Michigan Women's Foundation	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1891–1974)	1998	Michigan State University professor who instituted many programs focused on home, the environment and nutrition	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1931–2011)	1998	Co-founder of Focus: HOPE	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1948)	1998	Gerontology	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1857–1912)	1998	Chair Michigan Federation's Forestry Committee. Chair of the Civic Improvement Committee of the Federation of Women's Clubs.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1927–2000)	1998	Black Radio Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, R&B disc jockey, station owner. Ordained minister who founded the Home of Love church.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Ruth Thompson.jpg	(1887–1970)	1998	United States House of Representatives	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:LilyTomlinSept2011.jpg	(b. 1939)	1998	Entertainment	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Ellen Burstyn at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.jpg	(b. 1932)	1997	Entertainment	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1931–2016)	1997	President of American Women in Radio and Television, Inc.; founded the Metropolitan Detroit Chapter, National School Public Relations Association	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort			1997	Social work	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1931–2022)	1997	Founding chairperson of the National Center for the Advancement of Blacks in the Health Professions (NCABHP)	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Alice Hamilton student portrait, ca. 1893 - HS10419 (cropped).jpg	(1869–1970)	1997	Physician, research scientist, and author	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Love 1 350.jpg	(1914–1976)	1997	Director of the WW II Women's Auxiliary Ferry Squadron	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Maryann Mahaffey speaking at 50th anniversary for Henry Messer and Carl House.jpg	(1925–2006)	1997	President of Detroit City Council 1990–1998, champion of human rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Sharon Egretta Sutton at the When Ivory Towers were Black at the book launch at Columbia GSAPP (cropped).jpg	(b. 1941)	1997	Architect, Professor Emeritus at College of Built Environments	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Matildadodge.jpg	(1883–1967)	1997	43rd Lieutenant Governors of Michigan, philanthropist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Annie Clemenc.jpg	(1888–1956)	1996	Labor activist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1921–1981)	1996	Odawa rights activist who spent her career advocating for the United States government to adhere to its treaty obligations to Native Americans.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1916–1996)	1996	Trademark and copyright attorney	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1932–2014)	1996	Founding director of Wayne County Neighborhood Legal Services	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Betsy Graves Reyneau 1948 crop.jpg	(1888–1964)	1996	Portrait artist, focusing on African Americans	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1948)	1996	Medicine, health care	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1935–2016)	1996	Chemist and senior staff research scientist at General Motors Corporation	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1929–2021)	1996	Founder of the West Michigan Environmental Action Council. Member of the Michigan Natural Resources Commission, and the Governor's Advisory Committee on Electric Energy Alternatives and the first Natural Resources Trust Fund Board.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1943)	1995	Hispanic civil rights. Editor of El Renacimiento. Reporter for the Lansing State Journal.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1896–1999)	1995	Founder of World Medical Relief	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1939–2010)	1995	First female Chief Judge of Michigan's Oakland County Circuit Court	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1877–1978)	1995	Founded the Wayne County Republican Women's Club, and devoted her life's work to women's suffrage	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1902–1984)	1995	Founder of the Detroit Institute of Commerce with her own money, to train African American youiths with skills to enter the workplace	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1925–2004)	1995	Labor leader, Vice President of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) International Executive Board 1974–1992	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1866–1955)	1995	The first woman to hold elective office in Detroit when elected to the school board in 1917	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1931–2019)	1995	First African American woman to serve as executive director of the Planned Parenthood League of Southwest Michigan. Co-founder of the Sojourner Foundation	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1671–1746)	1994	Business, physician; the first white woman to cross the Iroquois Territory	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1911–2001)	1994	The Detroit News columnist whose work focused on adoption of hard-to-place children, resulting in government regulations.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1925–2004)	1994	Professor Emeritus at Wayne State University, founded the pediatric HIV Clinic at Children's Hospital	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1916–2005)	1994	Environment, advocate of natural sanctuaries. Founder of the Michigan Nature Association.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1913–1995)	1994	Labor leader who organized the Women's Auxiliary and the Women's Emergency Brigade sit-down strike against General Motors. Memorialized in the documentary With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade.	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1928–2015)	1994	Founder of Childbirth Without Pain Education Association, peace activist, advocate of universal single-payer health care	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1892–1972)	1994	First woman in the United States to earn a Doctorate in Animal Genetics. Trustee of Michigan State University. Founding member of the Oakland University Board of Trustees	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Aleda lutz.jpg	(1915–1944)	1994	W W II U. S. Army flight nurse, died in a plane crash in Lyon, France. Posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Aleda E. Lutz VA Medical Center in Saganaw honors her service.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Dr. Helen Walker McAndrew.jpg	(1826–1906)	1994	Washtenaw County's first woman physician	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Edith Vosburgh Alvord (Michigan Club Bulletin, 1924).png	(1875–1962)	1993	Volunteerism, women's suffrage	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1919–2014)	1993	Pioneered African-American studies in Detroit schools	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1918–2016)	1993	Helped found the Center for Education of Women at the University of Michigan	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1868–1942)	1993	Activist for prison reform	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Lenna F. Cooper	File:Lenna F. Cooper.png	(1875–1961)	1993	Co-founder of the American Dietetic Association (ADA) in 1917; first dietician in the United States Army	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:RobertaAGriffith1913.jpg	(1870–1941)	1993	Helped to establish American Association of Workers for the Blind, and created a 6-volume Braille dictionary	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Bina West Miller (1895).png	(1867–1954)	1993	Founder of Women's Benefit Association, a nonprofit, dues-paying organization exclusively for women, pioneering life insurance for women	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1931–2008)	1993	Olympic speed skater	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Blues is a woman Reitz (cropped-Sippie Wallace).jpg	(1898–1986)	1993	Musical entertainer	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:EdnaNobleWhite1918.png	(1879–1954)	1993	Founding director of the Merrill-Palmer Institute, childhood development advisor to the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Mildred Irene Clark Woodman.jpg	(1905–1994)	1993	Military	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Cora Mae Brown	File:Cora Brown.png	(1914–1972)	1992	Legislative work, criminal law, and women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1943)	1992	Journalism	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Sarah Edmonds lg sepia.jpg	(1841–1898)	1992	Served with the Union troops during the Civil War, passing herself off as a man	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1899–1968)	1992	Improving the status of women through education and job skills	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1926–1975)	1992	Journalism	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Gilda Radner - 1980.jpg	(1946–1989)	1992	Entertainer	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1932–2021)	1992	Financial Economist and Former Governor of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1916–1991)	1992	Became a union leader while working at Kellogg's in Battle Creek. Co-founder of the Coalition of Labor Union Women. Founded the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek chapters of the National Organization for Women	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Sylvia Stoesser 2008 064 personnel zw12z580x.tiff	(1901–1991)	1992	Chemist, Dow Chemical Company's first female research scientist.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:LucyThurman1902.tif	(1849–1918)	1992	Devoted 37 years to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, helping them establish a National Department of Colored work	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Charleszetta Waddles (13270537334) (cropped).jpg	(1912–2001)	1992	Social work, African-American activist, Pentecostal church minister, and founder of Mother Waddles Perpetual Mission	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1907–1988)	1991	Founded Youth For Understanding	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1908–2005)	1991	First woman elected to the Detroit City Council, member of Wayne County Board of Supervisors	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1946)	1991	Founder of Women's Crisis Center in Ann Arbor. Organized a boycott against Domino's Pizza for its anti-woman policies. Propelled the rape crisis center movement in Michigan.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1923–1997)	1991	Helped establish the Older Women's League (OWL) in Michigan. Actin director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for the Michigan Employment Security Commission. Co-chair the Governor's task force on sexual harassment, leading to the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1933–2015)	1991	Organized the committee to Study Sex Discrimination in the Kalamazoo Public Schools.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(b. 1929)	1991	Helped draft the Michigan Criminal Sexual Conduct Act	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1924–2004)	1991	Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court 1987–1991	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1934–1989)	1991	Civil rights, education, Edith Swanson Leadership Award established in her honor	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:AlphaGammaDelta EmilyButterfield.gif	(1884–1958)	1990	Artist, and first licensed female architect in Michigan	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1917–2009)	1990	First African American woman elected to the Detroit City Council	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1898–1989)	1990	In conjunction with the League of Women Voters, spent her life rooting out corruption and cronyism in government.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1882–1975)	1990	Superintendent of Northern Michigan Children's Clinic. Helped found the Bay Cliff Health Camp. Worked with the American Red Cross to recruit and train workers for disaster recovery.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1840–1922)	1990	Founded a private elementary school for black children. Pushed for school desegregation, resulting in the Michigan Supreme Court's 1871 ruling ordering desegregation.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1891–1995)	1990	First female practicing prosecuting attorney in Michigan.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1918–2011)	1990	Authority on nuclear energy and its impact on the environment	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Merze Tate (13270332113).jpg	(1905–1996)	1990	Political science scholar, author, professor at Harvard University	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1940–1992)	1990	Hispanic civil rights	<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Clara Arthur.jpg	(1858–1929)	1989	Co-founder of the Detroit Equal Suffrage Association in 1886	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Anna Sutherland Bissell.png	(1846–1934)	1989	Philanthropist and CEO of Bissell Company in 1889. First woman chief executive officer in the United States.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Alexa-Canady.jpg	(b. 1950)	1989	First African American woman in the United States to become a neurosurgeon	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1898–1991)	1989	Attorney who argued for the plaintiff in Goesaert v. Cleary before the United States Supreme Court, in which the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the appellees and upheld the State of Michigan's discriminatory laws regarding hiring practices of women barkeepers. US Congresswoman Martha Griffiths' support of the US Equal Rights Amendment was based on this case.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1930–2011)	1989	Human rights activist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Isabella Karle.jpg	(1921–2017)	1989	Chemist who developed the Symbolic Addition Procedure for deriving molecular structures directly from x-ray diffraction experiments on crystals.	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1924–2021)	1989	Advocate for gender equality	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1915–1996)	1989	First woman elected to the executive board of the United Auto Workers. Under her influence, the UAW in 1970 became the first national union to endorse constitutional ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1845–1903)	1989	Born in a log cabin, she worked through the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry to improve the lives and educations of Michigan women.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1917–2011)	1988	Social worker, educator	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Dr Ethelene Jones Crockett 1972.jpg	(1914–1978)	1988	Michigan's first African-American female board-certified OB/GYN	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1934–2007)	1988	Championed gender-equal academic and sports regulations in Michigan	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1909–1998)	1988	First woman to broadcast news in Michigan	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1931–2004)	1988	Roman Catholic nun, president of Mercy College of Detroit, 1982 candidate for Congress	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1889–1973)	1988	Michigan state geologist, prolific author	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1925–2021)	1988	Former Vice President of Administration at Detroit Edison	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Sarah Goddard Power 1975.png	(1935–1987)	1988	Former Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1921–1985)	1987	Medical researcher and first woman professor at Wayne State University (WSU); first recipient of the university's Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1920–2014)	1987	Arts, women's rights; co-founded the Michigan chapter of the National Organization for Women	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1898–1989)	1987	Physician who helped pioneer the Sister Kenny method of treating Poliomyelitis	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Georgia Emery (1918).png	(1867–1913)	1987	Founder of Merrill Palmer School for Motherhood and Home Training, first director of the Women's Department of the Massachusetts Life Insurance Company	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Betty Ford.gif	(1918–2011)	1987	First Lady of the United States	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1904–1989)	1987	Civil rights advocate appointed in the 1940s to a national advisory post by President Franklin D. Roosevelt	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1909–1994)	1987	First woman commissioned as American military Colonel, World War II Army Medical Corps, Deputy Chief Medical Examiner of Wayne County, 20 years research into Sudden infant death syndrome	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Patricia Jean Boyle.png	(1937–2014)	1986	Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Elizabeth Caroline Crosby (1888-1983).jpg	(1888–1983)	1986	Comparative and human neuroanatomy. 1979 recipient of the President's National Medal of Science from Jimmy Carter	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1906–2001)	1986	Artists, illustrator	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1889–1987)	1986	International social worker	<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access; Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1916–1986)	1986	First woman elected as bishop to the Methodist Church	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1915–2001)	1986	First African-American woman to graduate from the Medical School of Wayne State University, the first to be accepted as an intern at Detroit Receiving Hospital. and the first to become Chief Resident of a major Detroit hospital.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1867–1961)	1986	Ceramic artist and co-founder of renowned Detroit studio Pewabic Pottery	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Helen Thomas - USNWR.jpg	(1920–2013)	1986	Journalism, White House press corps	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1907–2005)	1984	Civil rights, national president of the YWCA 1967–1973	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Caroline Bartlett Crane.jpg	(1858–1935)	1984	Unitarian minister, suffragist, civic reformer, educator and journalist	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1916–1999)	1984	Chair President Nixon's Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities. 1972 Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1889–1987)	1984	Newbery Medal for children's literature	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1898–1986)	1984	Conservationist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1892–1984)	1984	Biochemist. First woman chair of a local section of the American Chemical Society. Won 22 awards and honors for her laboratory's research.	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1779–1846)	1984	Early 19th century fur trader	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1870–1953)	1984	Physician, community activist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1914–2008)	1984	Republican National Committee co-chairman during the 1960s and 1970s	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1908–1983)	1984	African-American attorney	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Mary C. Spencer.jpg	(1842–1923)	1984	Michigan State Librarian 1893–1923	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Dr Bertha Van Hoosen and puppies.jpg	(1863–1952)	1984	Medicine, health care, founder of the American Medical Women's Association in 1915, and the first woman to be head of a medical division at a coeducational university.	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1907–1986)	1983	Novelist	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1910–2005)	1983	Michigan state senator	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:MamieNealeBledsoe1924.png	(1900–1991)	1983	Civil rights, politics, advocate for special education needs of children	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Elizabeth Margaret Chandler lg.jpg	(1807–1834)	1983	Quaker writer who incorporated abolitionism into her themes	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Mary Stallings Coleman 1977.png	(1914–2001)	1983	First woman to be elected Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court .	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1900–1993)	1983	Medicine, health care, author, and authority on Gerontology, founded International Center for Social Gerontology (ICSG) in Washington, D.C.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1900–1988)	1983	Math, science, medicine, health care, along with Pearl Kendrick developed the vaccine for whooping cough	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1892–1975)	1983	Medicine, health care, civil activist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Martha Wright Griffiths.jpg	(1912–2003)	1983	United States House of Representatives 1955–1974, guided the Equal Rights Amendment through both houses of Congress in 1972. Lt. Governor of Michigan 1983–1991	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1917–2000)	1983	International Representative with the United Auto Workers International Union's Women's Department	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Laura Smith Haviland in 1881.jpg	(1808–1897)	1983	Quaker abolitionist who helped slaves escape, founded an orphanage, nursed wounded Civil War soldiers, and was active in women's suffrage.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1910–2004)	1983	Labor and civil rights activist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1890–1980)	1983	Math, science, medicine, health care. Along with Grace Eldering, developed the vaccine for Whooping Cough	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1922–2012)	1983	First Lady of Michigan, philanthropist, women's rights	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sortname		(1913–2005)	1983	Pivotal African American figure in the Civil Rights Movement	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Anna Howard Shaw 1.jpg	(1847–1919)	1983	Suffrage, religion, medicine, health care	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Lucinda Hinsdale Stone.png	(1814–1900)	1983	Women's rights	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sortname	File:Sojourner Truth 01.jpg	(1797–1883)	1983	Abolition	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Further reading

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External links

• Virtual Gallery of Honorees
• Michigan Women's Hall of Fame Nomination Form
• The Michigan Women's Historical Center & Hall of Fame