Name
|
Image
|
Birth?Death
|
Year
|
Area of achievement
|
Ref(s)
|
Adrienne A. Jones
|
|
(b. 1954)
|
2024
|
First female and first African-American
Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates
|
[3]
|
Susan C. Lee
|
|
(b. 1954)
|
2024
|
First Asian American to serve as
Maryland Secretary of State
, first Asian American to be elected to the
Maryland Senate
, and first Chinese American and first Asian American woman to serve and be elected to the
Maryland House of Delegates
|
[4]
|
Brooke Lierman
|
|
(b. 1979)
|
2024
|
34th
Comptroller of Maryland
, first female Comptroller and first woman to be elected to an independent state government office in Maryland; member of the
Maryland House of Delegates
from 2015 to 2023
|
[5]
|
Aruna Miller
|
|
(b. 1964)
|
2024
|
10th
Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
, first immigrant elected to a statewide office; member of the
Maryland House of Delegates
from 2010 to 2019
|
[6]
|
Nancy Pelosi
|
|
(b. 1940)
|
2024
|
First woman to serve as
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
from 2007 to 2011 and from 2019 to 2023
|
[7]
|
Janeen L. Birckhead
|
|
|
2023
|
Brigadier General, Commander of the Maryland Army National Guard, Assistant Adjutant General, Maryland Joint Force Headquarters, Baltimore, Maryland; Deputy Commanding General-Reserve Affairs, United States Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
|
[8]
[9]
|
Charlotte M. Cooksey
|
|
(b. 1947)
|
2023
|
District Court of Maryland, District 1, the first presiding judge of Baltimore's Mental Health Court
|
[10]
|
Ana Sol Gutierrez
|
|
(b. 1942)
|
2023
|
Maryland House of Delegates from District 18, first Latina elected to state office
|
[11]
|
Gloria G. Lawlah
|
|
(b. 1939)
|
2023
|
Secretary of the Maryland Department of Aging, Maryland state senator from the 26th district
|
[12]
|
Jackie Ronne
|
|
(1919-2009)
|
2023
|
Antarctic expedition (1947?48)
|
[13]
|
Dorothy Blum
|
|
(1924-1980)
|
2022
|
Computer pioneer, cryptanalyst
|
[14]
|
Mary L. Cleave
|
|
(b 1947)
|
2022
|
American engineer and a former astronaut
|
[15]
|
Gloria Richardson
|
|
(1922-2021)
|
2022
|
Civil rights activist
|
[16]
|
Beatrice Rodgers
|
|
|
2022
|
Community activist for people with disabilities
|
[17]
|
Odessa M. Shannon
|
|
(1928-2020)
|
2022
|
Founder of the Montgomery County Human Rights Hall of Fame; recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Volunteerism from President Barack Obama
|
[18]
|
Elizabeth Bobo
|
|
|
2021
|
Elected to serve as the
Howard County
Chief Executive, served 20 years as a representative in the
Maryland House of Delegates
, and served on the Howard County Council.
|
[19]
|
Margaret Briggs Gregory Hawkins
|
|
(1877-1969)
|
2021
|
Educator, suffragist
|
[20]
|
Ruby Reese Moone
|
|
|
2021
|
Civil rights
|
[21]
|
Nancy K. Welker
|
|
|
2021
|
Physicist, expert in superconducting electronics
|
[22]
|
Celeste Revillon Winans
|
|
(1823?1861)
|
2021
|
Ran a soup house for the poor
|
[23]
|
Victorine Quille Adams
|
|
(1912?2006)
|
2020
|
Baltimore City Council
|
[24]
|
Evelyn O. A. Darden
|
|
|
2020
|
Lawyer
|
[25]
|
Claire L. Parkinson
|
|
|
2020
|
Climate Scientist
|
[26]
|
Nancy Grace Roman
|
|
(1925?2018)
|
2020
|
Astronomer
|
[27]
|
Leslie R. Wolfe
|
|
(1943?2017)
|
2020
|
Women's rights leader
|
[28]
|
Marielsa A. Bernard
|
|
|
2019
|
Senior Judge of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County
|
[29]
|
Augusta T. Chissell
|
|
(1880?1973)
|
2019
|
Suffragist; Vice President of Baltimore NAACP
|
[30]
|
Dominique Dawes
|
|
(b. 1976)
|
2019
|
Olympic champion gymnast
|
[31]
|
Virginia Hall
|
|
(1906?1982)
|
2019
|
Intelligence officer in Vichy France during World War II
|
[32]
|
Rosa Gumataotao Rios
|
|
(b. 1956)
|
2019
|
43rd
Treasurer of the United States
|
[33]
|
Evelyn Williams Townsend
|
|
(1922?2008)
|
2019
|
Community activist; President of the
Harriet Tubman
Museum and Educational Center
|
[34]
|
Phyllis B. Trickett
|
|
(b. 1927)
|
2019
|
Community activist; equal rights
|
[35]
|
Pauline Woo Tsui
|
|
(1920?2018)
|
2019
|
Anti-discrimination activist; co-founder of the Organization of Chinese American Women
|
[36]
|
Sandra I. Barnes
|
|
|
2018
|
Child welfare advocate; Assistant Attorney General, Maryland Department of Human Services
|
[37]
|
Sandra Williams Ortega
|
|
(b. 1937)
|
2018
|
Maryland's first African American woman commissioned as a U.S. Air Force Officer, community service
|
[38]
|
Emily Saunders Plummer
|
|
(1815?1876)
|
2018
|
Former slave
|
[39]
|
Rita L. Robinson
|
|
(b. 1936)
|
2018
|
Professor at Bowie State University
|
[40]
|
Hattie N. Washington
|
|
|
2018
|
Professor of Education at Coppin State University
|
[41]
|
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
|
|
|
2017
|
Founder of the No FEAR Institute, an organization devoted to educating the American public about federal sector discrimination and the implementation of the
No FEAR Act
.
|
[42]
|
Carolyn Colvin
|
|
(b. 1942)
|
2017
|
Deputy Commissioner for Social Security
|
[43]
|
Donna Edwards
|
|
(b. 1958)
|
2017
|
First African American woman to represent Maryland in the US House of Representatives
|
[44]
|
Mary Garrett
|
|
(1854?1915)
|
2017
|
Suffragist and philanthropist
|
[45]
|
Katharine Blodgett Gebbie
|
|
(1932?2016)
|
2017
|
Astrophysicist
|
[46]
|
Kathleen Ledecky
|
|
(b. 1997)
|
2017
|
Olympic gold medalist for swimming
|
[47]
|
Helen Maroulis
|
|
(b. 1991)
|
2017
|
Gold medalist
2015 World Wrestling Championships
|
[48]
|
Lilian Welsh
|
|
(1858?1938)
|
2017
|
Physician, educator, suffragist
|
[49]
|
Sophia Arabatzis Balis
|
|
|
2016
|
Professor Emeritus of the University of Maryland Dental School
|
[50]
|
Oretha Bridgwaters-Simms
|
|
|
2016
|
Educator
|
[51]
|
Mary C. Goodwillie
|
|
(1870?1949)
|
2016
|
Established the Junior League of Baltimore
|
[52]
|
Elaine Danforth Harmon
|
|
(1919?2015)
|
2016
|
2009
Congressional Gold Medal
for U.S.
Women Airforce Service Pilots
(WASP) during World War II
|
[53]
|
Joanne Katz
|
|
|
2016
|
President of the Faculty Senate of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Institutional Review Board chair
|
[54]
|
Lizette Woodworth Reese
|
|
(1856?1935)
|
2016
|
Poet
|
[55]
|
Beverly B. Byron
|
|
(b. 1932)
|
2015
|
U.S. House of Representatives
|
[56]
|
E. Gail de Planque
|
|
(1945?2010)
|
2015
|
Physicist, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
|
[57]
|
Mary Feik
|
|
(1924?2016)
|
2015
|
Aviation, pilot, flight engineer, master mechanic
|
[58]
|
Katherine O'Brien
|
|
|
2015
|
Physician, member of the World Health Organization's Scientific Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE)
|
[59]
|
Linda L. Singh
|
|
(b. 1964)
|
2015
|
Adjutant General of the Maryland National Guard
|
[60]
|
Sue Fryer Ward
|
|
(1935?2014)
|
2015
|
Government service, advocate for human rights
|
[61]
|
Dorothy F. Bailey
|
|
|
2014
|
Civic activist
|
[62]
|
Agnes Kane Callum
|
|
(1926?2015)
|
2014
|
Founding member of the Baltimore Afro American Historical Genealogic Society
|
[63]
|
Renee E. Fox
|
|
|
2014
|
Executive director of the Institute for a Healthiest Maryland
|
[64]
|
Susan K. Goering
|
|
(b. 1952)
|
2014
|
Civil rights attorney
|
[65]
|
Henrietta Lacks
|
|
(1920?1951)
|
2014
|
HeLa
the oldest and most commonly used human cell line came from cervical cancer cells taken from Lacks.
|
[66]
|
Ann Cipriano Rees
|
|
|
2014
|
Philanthropist
|
[67]
|
Helen Delich Bentley
|
|
(1923?2016)
|
2013
|
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from 1985 to 1995
|
[68]
|
Jean B. Cryor
|
|
(1938?2009)
|
2013
|
Member of the
Maryland House of Delegates
for District 15
|
[69]
|
Charlene Mickens Dukes
|
|
|
2013
|
President of
Prince George's Community College
|
[70]
|
Ellen R. Sauerbrey
|
|
(b. 1937)
|
2013
|
Former head of the United States Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
|
[71]
|
Linda A. Shevitz
|
|
|
2013
|
Equity Office Director at the Maryland State Department of Education
|
[72]
|
Beatrice P. Tignor
|
|
|
2013
|
Maryland House of Delegates
|
[73]
|
Maureen Black
|
|
|
2012
|
Physician
|
[74]
|
Margaret Dunkle
|
|
(b. 1947)
|
2012
|
Equal opportunities for women in athletics
|
[75]
|
Nancy K. Kopp
|
|
(b. 1943)
|
2012
|
Treasurer of Maryland
|
[76]
|
Alice Manicur
|
|
|
2012
|
Educator
|
[77]
|
Diana Gribbon Motz
|
|
(b. 1943)
|
2012
|
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
|
[78]
|
Gwendolyn Rooks
|
|
|
2012
|
Community service
|
[79]
|
Carol W. Greider
|
|
(b. 1961)
|
2011
|
Molecular biologist
|
[80]
|
Barbara Holdridge
|
|
(b. 1929)
|
2011
|
Co-founder Caedmon Records, founder Stemmer House Publishers
|
[81]
|
Ligia Peralta
|
|
|
2011
|
University of Maryland School of Medicine
|
[82]
|
Gertrude Poe
|
|
(1915?2017)
|
2011
|
Journalist
|
[83]
|
Lucy Diggs Slowe
|
|
(1885?1937)
|
2011
|
Advocate for black women
|
[84]
|
June A. Willenz
|
|
(b. 1924)
|
2011
|
Author, military veterans advocate; Executive Director of the American Veterans Committee (AVC)
|
[85]
|
Claire M. Fraser
|
|
(b. 1955)
|
2010
|
Microbiologist
|
[86]
|
Anne Catharine Hoof Green
|
|
(c.1720?1775)
|
2010
|
Publisher
The Maryland Gazette
|
[87]
|
Irene Morgan Kirkaldy
|
|
(1917?2007)
|
2010
|
Jailed in 1944 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a
Greyhound
bus; 1946
Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia
,
United States Supreme Court
overturned Virginia state law requiring segregation on interstate transportation.
|
[88]
|
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
|
|
(1793?1884)
|
2010
|
Educator, publisher
|
[89]
|
Bernice R. Sandler
|
|
(1928?2019)
|
2010
|
Women's rights
|
[90]
|
Lillie D. Shockney
|
|
|
2010
|
Leader in breast cancer treatment
|
[91]
|
Ilia Fehrer
|
|
(1927?2007)
|
2009
|
Environmentalist
|
[92]
|
Diane Griffin
|
|
(b. 1940)
|
2009
|
University Distinguished Professor, and a Professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, department chair from 1994 to 2015
|
[93]
|
Harriet Legum
|
|
|
2009
|
Advocate for research and treatment of women's breast cancer
|
[94]
|
Allyson R. Solomon
|
|
|
2009
|
Brig. General, Maryland National Guard, Assistant Adjutant General, Air, Maryland National Guard
|
[95]
|
Anne St. Clair Wright
|
|
(1910?1993)
|
2009
|
Historic preservationist
|
[96]
|
Ramona McCarthy Hawkins
|
|
|
2008
|
Pharmacist
|
[97]
|
Ellen Moses Heller
|
|
|
2008
|
Judge
|
[98]
|
Billie Holiday
|
|
(1915?1959)
|
2008
|
Jazz singer
|
[99]
|
Pauline Menes
|
|
(1924?2009)
|
2008
|
Maryland House of Delegates
|
[100]
|
Toby Orenstein
|
|
(b. 1937)
|
2008
|
Patron of the arts
|
[101]
|
Emily Wilson Walker
|
|
(1904?2007)
|
2008
|
Physician
|
[102]
|
Annette M. Deener
|
|
|
2007
|
Brigadier General Maryland National Guard, Director MD Joint Staff Hdqt
|
[103]
|
Sally T. Grant
|
|
|
2007
|
Volunteerism, women's right, co-founder of Maryland Women's Hall of Fame
|
[104]
|
Prasanna Nair
|
|
|
2007
|
Primary Health Care physician, specifically with infants of mothers with HIV/AIDS or substance abuse issues
|
[105]
|
Karen H. Rothenberg
|
|
|
2007
|
Dean, Marjorie Cook Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Law School
|
[106]
|
Audrey E. Scott
|
|
|
2007
|
Community activist
|
[107]
|
Susan P. Baker
|
|
(b. 1930)
|
2006
|
Doctor of Public Health
|
[108]
|
Liebe Sokol Diamond
|
|
(1931?2017)
|
2006
|
Orthopedics
|
[109]
|
Bea Gaddy
|
|
(1933?2001)
|
2006
|
City Council Woman, advocate for the poor and the homeless
|
[110]
|
Marilyn Hughes Gaston
|
|
(b. 1939)
|
2006
|
Physician
|
[111]
|
Rebecca Alban Hoffberger
|
|
(b. 1952)
|
2006
|
Founder
American Visionary Art Museum
|
[112]
|
Grace Snively
|
|
|
2006
|
Civil rights, community activism
|
[113]
|
Shoshanna Shoubin Cardin
|
|
(b. 1926)
|
2005
|
Philanthropist, volunteerism
|
[114]
|
Bessie Olive Cole
|
|
(1883?1971)
|
2005
|
"First Lady of Maryland Pharmacy"
|
[115]
|
Susan R. Panny
|
|
|
2005
|
Physician
|
[116]
|
Edyth H. Schoenrich
|
|
|
2005
|
Health care
|
[117]
|
Emily Edmonson
|
|
(1835?1895)
|
2004
|
Freed black woman, abolitionist
|
[118]
|
Nancy T. Grasmick
|
|
|
2004
|
Former Maryland state Superintendent of Schools
|
[119]
|
Esther McCready
|
|
(1931?2020)
|
2004
|
Nurse, educator
|
[120]
|
Margaret Byrd Rawson
|
|
(1899?2001)
|
2004
|
Dyslexia
research
|
[121]
|
Vivian V. Simpson
|
|
(1903?1987)
|
2004
|
Lawyer
|
[122]
|
Virginia Walcott Beauchamp
|
|
(1920?2019)
|
2003
|
Author, woman's advocate
|
[123]
|
Edith Clarke
|
|
(1883?1959)
|
2003
|
First woman employed as an electrical engineer in the United States, as well as the country's first female professor of electrical engineering
|
[124]
|
Kathryn J. DuFour
|
|
(1910?2005)
|
2003
|
Chief justice, Sixth Judicial Circuit Court of Maryland
|
[125]
|
Ruth L. Kirschstein
|
|
(1926?2009)
|
2003
|
Pathologist
|
[126]
|
Etta H. Maddox
|
|
(c1860?1933)
|
2003
|
Lawyer, suffragette
|
[127]
|
Deborah A. Yow
|
|
(b. 1950)
|
2003
|
Athletic Director for the University of Maryland
|
[128]
|
Mabel Houze Hubbard
|
|
(1936?2006)
|
2002
|
Judge, first African-American woman to serve as a judge of the District Court of Maryland
|
[129]
|
Florence Peterson Kendall
|
|
(1910?2006)
|
2002
|
Physical therapist
|
[130]
|
Mary Young Pickersgill
|
|
(1776?1857)
|
2002
|
Flag maker during the
War of 1812
; sewed the
Star-Spangled Banner (flag)
|
[131]
|
Lorraine Sheehan
|
|
(1937?2009)
|
2002
|
Maryland General Assembly
|
[132]
|
Kathleen Feeley
|
|
(b. 1929)
|
2001
|
Former president
College of Notre Dame of Maryland
|
[133]
|
Misbah Khan, MD, MPH, FAAP
|
|
|
2001
|
Pediatrician, medical school teacher and researcher, health policy advisor, and medical director for numerous community health programs
|
[134]
|
Charmaine Krohe
|
|
|
2001
|
Founder St. Ambrose Family Outreach Center
|
[135]
|
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
|
|
(1921?2009)
|
2001
|
Special Olympics
|
[136]
|
Sandra W. Tomlinson
|
|
|
2001
|
Educator
|
[137]
|
Constance Uriolo Battle
|
|
|
2000
|
Pediatrician
|
[138]
|
Lois Green Carr
|
|
(1922?2015)
|
2000
|
Economic and social historian, specialist in the history of colonial Maryland
[139]
|
[140]
|
Sonia Pressman Fuentes
|
|
(b. 1928)
|
2000
|
Co-founder
National Organization for Women
|
[141]
|
Josephine Jacobsen
|
|
(1908?2003)
|
2000
|
Poet, short story writer, critic
|
[142]
|
Rosetta Stith
|
|
|
2000
|
Director of the Laurence G. Paquin Middle/Secondary School for Expectant Teenage Mothers
|
[143]
|
Florence Riefle Bahr
|
|
(1909?1998)
|
1999
|
Artist
|
[144]
|
Lillian C. Compton
|
|
(1884?1973)
|
1999
|
Educator
|
[145]
|
Edith Houghton Hooker
|
|
(1879?1948)
|
1999
|
Suffragette, first woman accepted into Johns Hopkins University Medical School
|
[146]
|
Elizabeth Fran Johnson
|
|
(b. 1928)
|
1999
|
Educator, volunteerism
|
[147]
|
Bernice Smith White
|
|
(b. 1924)
|
1999
|
Community activist, women's equality
|
[148]
|
Constance Ross Beims
|
|
(b. 1938)
|
1998
|
Educator
|
[149]
|
Mary Katherine Goddard
|
|
(1738?1816)
|
1998
|
Publisher, postmistress
|
[150]
|
Elaine Ryan Hedges
|
|
(1927?1997)
|
1998
|
Journalist with the
Feminist Press
|
[151]
|
Mary Carter Smith
|
|
(1919?2007)
|
1998
|
Poet, story teller
|
[152]
|
Diane L. Adams
|
|
(b. 1948)
|
1997
|
Physician
|
[153]
|
Sol del Ande Mendez Eaton
|
|
(b. 1936)
|
1997
|
Research chemist, civil rights, women's rights, health care
|
[154]
|
Catherine R. Gira
|
|
(1932?2019)
|
1997
|
Educator
|
[155]
|
Helen L. Koss
|
|
(1922?2008)
|
1997
|
Maryland House of Delegates
|
[156]
|
Rosa Ponselle
|
|
(1897?1981)
|
1997
|
Opera singer, honored on a U.S. postage stamp
|
[157]
|
Madeleine L. Ellicott
|
|
(1856?1945)
|
1996
|
Women's suffrage
|
[158]
|
Ethel Llewellyn Ennis
|
|
(1932?2019)
|
1996
|
Jazz musician
|
[159]
|
Mary Digges Lee
|
|
(1745?1805)
|
1996
|
Provided aid to
George Washington
's troops
|
[160]
|
Brigid G. Leventhal
|
|
(1935?1994)
|
1996
|
Physician
|
[161]
|
Barbara A. Robinson
|
|
(b. 1938)
|
1996
|
Maryland House of Delegates
|
[162]
|
Jill Moss Greenberg
|
|
(b. 1943)
|
1995
|
Volunteerism, civil rights, women's rights
|
[163]
|
Mary L. Nock
|
|
(1903?1987)
|
1995
|
Maryland General Assembly
|
[164]
|
Amanda Taylor Norris
|
|
(1849?1944)
|
1995
|
First woman physician in Maryland
|
[165]
|
Nettie Barcroft Taylor
|
|
(1914?2016)
|
1995
|
Library services
|
[166]
|
Euphemia Mary Goldsborough Willson
|
|
(1836?1896)
|
1995
|
Nurse during the
Civil War
|
[167]
|
Rosalie Silber Abrams
|
|
(1916?2009)
|
1994
|
Maryland House of Delegates
,
Maryland State Senate
, first female and Jewish majority leader of the state Senate.
|
[168]
|
Mary Elizabeth Banning
|
|
(1822?1903)
|
1994
|
Mycologist
, painter, naturalist
|
[169]
|
Harriet Elizabeth Brown
|
|
(1907?2009)
|
1994
|
1937 legal case against
Calvert County
; was one of the foundations for the Maryland Teachers Pay Equalization Law
|
[170]
|
Constance A. Morella
|
|
(b. 1931)
|
1994
|
United States Ambassador
to the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
|
[171]
|
Mary Adelaide Nutting
|
|
(1858?1948)
|
1994
|
Nursing educator
|
[172]
|
Rosalyn Blake Bell
|
|
(b. 1923)
|
1993
|
Judge
|
[173]
|
Lucille Clifton
|
|
(1936?2010)
|
1993
|
Poet Laureate of Maryland
|
[174]
|
Elizabeth King Ellicott
|
|
(1858?1914)
|
1993
|
Women's suffrage
|
[175]
|
Jean Spencer
|
|
(1933?1992)
|
1993
|
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[176]
|
Martha Ellicott Tyson
|
|
(1795?1873)
|
1993
|
Quaker
elder, abolitionist, author
|
[177]
|
Annie Armstrong
|
|
(1850?1938)
|
1992
|
Missionary
|
[178]
|
Anna Ella Carroll
|
|
(1815?1894)
|
1992
|
Politician
|
[179]
|
Rose Kushner
|
|
(1929?1990)
|
1992
|
Journalist, author of
Why Me? What Every Woman Should Know About Breast Cancer to Save Her Life
|
[180]
|
Margaret Collins Schweinhaut
|
|
(1904?1997)
|
1992
|
Maryland State Senate
|
[181]
|
Carmen Delgado Votaw
|
|
(1934?2017)
|
1992
|
Civil rights
|
[182]
|
Rita Colwell
|
|
(b. 1934)
|
1991
|
Environmental microbiologist
|
[183]
|
Mary Elizabeth Lange
|
|
(1789?1882)
|
1991
|
Foundress of the
Oblate Sisters of Providence
|
[184]
|
Claire McCardell
|
|
(1905?1958)
|
1991
|
Fashion designer
|
[185]
|
Bessie Moses
|
|
(1893?1965)
|
1991
|
Gynecologist and obstetrician who advocated birth control practices for women
|
[186]
|
Alta Schrock
|
|
(1911?2002)
|
1991
|
First Mennonite woman in the United States to receive her doctoral degree
|
[187]
|
Lucille Maurer
|
|
(1922?1996)
|
1990
|
Former Maryland Treasurer
|
[188]
|
Enolia Pettigen McMillan
|
|
(1904?2006)
|
1990
|
First female national president
NAACP
|
[189]
|
Pauli Murray
|
|
(1910?1985)
|
1990
|
Activist, civil rights, women's rights
|
[190]
|
Adele Hagner Stamp
|
|
(1893?1974)
|
1990
|
Dean of Women Emeritus from the University's Board of Regents
|
[191]
|
Mary Lemist Titcomb
|
|
(1857?1932)
|
1990
|
Library services
|
[192]
|
Bertha Sheppard Adkins
|
|
(1906?1983)
|
1989
|
Under Secretary of
Health, Education, and Welfare
under
Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
[193]
|
Eugenie Clark
|
|
(1922?2015)
|
1989
|
Ichthyologist
|
[194]
|
Lavinia Margaret Engle
|
|
(1892?1979)
|
1989
|
Maryland House of Delegates, Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, organizer, National American Women's Suffrage Association, director and co-founder Maryland League of Women Voters, various positions within the Social Security Administration and the Welfare Administration.
|
[195]
|
Lena King Lee
|
|
(1906?2006)
|
1989
|
Maryland House of Delegates
|
[196]
|
Estelle R. Ramey
|
|
(1917?2006)
|
1989
|
Professor
George Washington University Medical School
|
[197]
|
Barbara A. Mikulski
|
|
(b. 1936)
|
1988
|
United States Senate
|
[198]
|
Sadie Kneller Miller
|
|
(1867?1920)
|
1988
|
Photojournalist
|
[199]
|
Mary Risteau
|
|
(1890?1978)
|
1988
|
Maryland House of Delegates
|
[200]
|
Martha Carey Thomas
|
|
(1857?1935)
|
1988
|
Educator and feminist
|
[201]
|
Verda Freeman Welcome
|
|
(1907?1990)
|
1988
|
Maryland State Senate
|
[202]
|
Clara Barton
|
|
(1821?1912)
|
1987
|
Founder
American Red Cross
|
[203]
|
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
|
|
(1824?1911)
|
1987
|
Author, poet, abolitionist
|
[204]
|
Juanita Jackson Mitchell
|
|
(1913?1992)
|
1987
|
First African American woman to practice law in Maryland
|
[205]
|
Mary Shaw Shorb
|
|
(1907?1990)
|
1987
|
Research scientist
|
[206]
|
Helen Brooke Taussig
|
|
(1898?1986)
|
1987
|
Founded the field of pediatric cardiology
|
[207]
|
Lillie Caroll Jackson
|
|
(1889?1975)
|
1986
|
Civil rights advocate, organized Baltimore branch of
NAACP
|
[208]
|
Elizabeth Ann Seton
|
|
(1774?1821)
|
1986
|
Roman Catholic Saint
|
[209]
|
Henrietta Szold
|
|
(1860?1945)
|
1986
|
Educator, first president of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
|
[210]
|
Jeanette Rosner Wolman
|
|
(1902?1999)
|
1986
|
Lawyer and woman's rights advocate
|
[211]
|
Hiltgunt Zassenhaus
|
|
(1916?2004)
|
1986
|
German philologist who worked as an interpreter in Hamburg, Germany during World War II, and later as a physician in the United States
|
[212]
|
Margaret Brent
|
|
(c.1601?c.1671)
|
1985
|
Estate owner, lawyer
|
[213]
|
Rachel Carson
|
|
(1907?1964)
|
1985
|
Author
Silent Spring
|
[214]
|
Rita C. Davidson
|
|
(1928?1984)
|
1985
|
First woman on Maryland Court of Appeals
|
[215]
|
Gladys Noon Spellman
|
|
(1918?1988)
|
1985
|
United States House of Representatives
|
[216]
|
Harriet Ross Tubman
|
|
(1820?1913)
|
1985
|
Abolitionist; escaped slave and conductor on the
Underground railroad
, suffragette
|
[217]
|