For a woman whose achievements still enrich our lives:
(Click on name to read more about each honoree)
- Lil Hardin Armstrong,* 2016
- Estelle Axton,* 2019
- Joyce Blackmon,* 2025
- Bessie Vance Brooks,* 2014
- Lucie Campbell,* 1998
- Citizens to Protect Overton Park, 2020
- Sara Roberta Church,* 1997
- Cornelia Crenshaw,* 2019
- Lois DeBerry,* 2018
- Myra F. Dreifus,* 1987
- Eleanor Dicky Ehrlich,* 2004
- Louise Fitzhugh,* 2011
- Marion Griffin,* 1996
- Alma C. Hanson,* 2009
- Georgia Harry,* 1989
- Julia B. Hooks,* 1988
- Alberta Hunter,* 2016
- Elizabeth Fisher Johnson,* 2023
- Lillian Wyckoff Johnson,* 2023
- Marion Keisker,* 2001
- Barbara Lawing,* 2007
- Elizabeth Avery Meriwether,* 2005
- Lide Smith Meriwether,* 2005
- Madame Florence Cole Tolbert McCleave,* 2024
- Florence McIntyre,* 2008
- Ethel Niermeyer,* 2003
- Phoebe Omlie,* 2010
- Georgia Patton Washington,* 2012
- Elizabeth Phillips,* 1994
- Judith Schwarz Scharff,* 1992
- Susanne Scruggs,* 2013
- Patricia Walker Shaw,* 1989
- Mary Magdalene Solari,* 2017
- Joan Fulenwider Strong,* 2006
- Dorothy Sturm,* 1995
- Suffragists of Shelby County,* 1990
- Cora Price Taylor,* 1993
- Mary Treadwell,* 1989
- Lucille DeVore Tucker,* 1999
- Lena Angevine Warner,* 1991
- Ida B. Wells,* 1987
- Emma Currin Barbee Wilburn,* 2015
- Charl Ormond Williams,* 2000
- Dr. Juanita Williamson,* 2002
- Frances Wright,* 1985
- Yellow Fever Heroines* 1986
* = deceased
Our most recent Heritage honoree:
Joyce Blackmon, first female and African-American vice president at MLG&W
30 Years Ago in 1996 Women of Achievement Honored:
Marion Griffin, first woman licensed to practice law in the State of Tennessee, first woman elected to the Tennessee General Assembly
40 Years Ago in 1986 Women of Achievement Honored:
Yellow Fever Heroines and Martyrs, all of the women of various races and creeds, all stations of life, who worked tirelessly, visiting homes, distributing medicine and food, nursing the sick, caring for the orphaned