Mary L. Jobe Akeley
(1886-1966) Geographer, mountaineer, photographer and writer - one of the world's leading explorers
(Inducted 1994)

Anni Albers
(1899-1994) First weaver to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
(Inducted 1994)

Marian Anderson
(1897-1993) A contralto vocalist, Anderson was the first African-American singer to perform with the Metropolitan Opera.
(Inducted 1994)

Beatrice Fox Auerbach
(1887-1968) President of G. Fox & Company, business leader and philanthropist.
(Inducted 1994)

Emma Fielding Baker
(1828-1916) A Mohegan medicine woman, responsible for regulating tribal land divisions and maintaining Mohegan historical records and oral traditions
(Inducted 1994)

Emily Dunning Barringer
(1876-1961) The first female ambulance surgeon and the first female physician to secure a surgical residency in the nation.
(Inducted 2000)

Evelyn Longman Batchelder
(1874-1954) A prolific sculptor, created Bushnell Park’s “Spirit of Victory.”
(Inducted 1994)

Adrianne Baughns-Wallace
(1944) First female television anchor in Connecticut and the first female African American television newscaster in New England.
(Inducted 2000)

Catherine Esther Beecher
(1800-1878) Founder and first president of the Hartford Female Seminary.
(Inducted 1994)

Jewel Plummer Cobb
(1924) Leading cell biologist and educator.
(Inducted 2008)

Jody Cohen
(1954) The first woman rabbi in Connecticut to have an extended tenure of her own congregation.
(Inducted 1994)

Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt
(1826-1905) First woman in America to establish a major art collection later bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
(Inducted 1997)

Martha Coolidge
(1946) First woman president of the Director’s Guild of America.
(Inducted 2005)

Prudence Crandall
(1803-1890) Teacher and abolitionist.
(Inducted 1994)

Katherine Seymour Day
(1870-1964) Landmark conservationist.
(Inducted 1994)

Annie Dillard
(1945) Author of 1975 Pulitzer Prize winning book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
(Inducted 1997)

Sister Helen Feeney, CSJ
(1919-2004) First woman in New England and one of the first nationwide to serve as chancellor of an archdiocese.
(Inducted 1995)

Fidelia Hoscott Fielding
(1827-1908) A member of the Mohegan Pequot tribe and responsible for the preservation of her tribe's language and customs.
(Inducted 1994)

Helen Frankenthaler
(1928) Revolutionary abstract expressionist painter.
(Inducted 2005)

Martha Minerva Franklin
(1870-1968) Pioneer of the Black nurses movement
(Inducted 2009)

Edythe J. Gaines
(1922-2006) First female African-American superintendent of public schools in Connecticut.
(Inducted 1996)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(1860 -1935) Leading intellectual, social reformer and author.
(Inducted 1994)

Patricia Goldman-Rakic
(1937 - 2003) World renowned neuroscientist.
(Inducted 2008)

Dorothy Goodwin
(1914 - 2007) Five-term Democratic state representative.
(Inducted 1994)

Ella Tambussi Grasso
(1919-1981) First woman in the nation to be elected governor in her own right.
(Inducted 1994)

Estelle Griswold
(1900-1981) Leader of the battle for elimination of Connecticut’s anti-birth control statute.
(Inducted 1994)

Florence Griswold
(1850-1937) Fostered the Impressionist art movement in America.
(Inducted 2002)

Mary Hall
(1843-1927) First female lawyer in Connecticut.
(Inducted 1994)

Dorothy Hamill
(1956) Olympic gold medalist and World Championship figure skating winner.
(Inducted 2007)

Alice Hamilton
(1869-1970) First female Harvard professor, pioneer in industrial medicine.
(Inducted 1994)

Jane Hamilton-Merritt
(1947) Photo journalist, educator and author; nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the Hmong people of Laos.
(Inducted 1999)

Katharine Hepburn
(1907-2003) One of America’s most accomplished actresses; winner of four Academy Awards.
(Inducted 1994)

Katherine Houghton Hepburn
(1878-1951) Prominent champion of women’s rights and Planned Parenthood.
(Inducted 1994)

Caroline Maria Hewins
(1846-1926) Pioneer in library services for children.
(Inducted 1995)

Dotha Bushnell Hillyer
(1843-1932) Founder and benefactor of the Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall.
(Inducted 2003)

Dorrit Hoffleit
(1907-2007) Astronomer, author of Bright Star Catalogue, Annenberg Award winner.
(Inducted 1998)

Isabella Beecher Hooker
(1822-1907) Founder of Connecticut Women’s Suffrage Association.
(Inducted 1994)

 

 

Mary Goodrich Jenson
(1907-2004) First female pilot in Connecticut, first female reporter for the Hartford Courant with a bylined column.
(Inducted 2000)

Emeline Roberts Jones
(1836-1916) First female dentist in America.
(Inducted 1994)

Joan Joyce
(1940) Inspirational woman athlete achieving greatness in softball, basketball, volleyball and golf.
(Inducted 2007)

Helen Keller
(1880 - 1968) Inspirational champion of civil liberties for the disabled.
(Inducted 2006)

Barbara B. Kennelly
(1936) First Connecticut woman to be elected to eight terms in Congress.
(Inducted 1994)

Eileen Kraus
(1938) First woman to head a major regional financial institution.
(Inducted 2002)

Susanne K. Langer
(1895-1985) Leading 20th century philosopher.
(Inducted 1996)

Madeleine L'Engle
(1918-2007) Award winning children’s author.
(Inducted 1996)

Donna Lopiano
(1946) Gifted athlete; instrumental in ensuring gender equity in sports.
(Inducted 1995)

Clare Boothe Luce
(1903-1987) Playwright, novelist, first U.S. Congresswoman from Connecticut; ambassador to Italy.
(Inducted 1994)

Carolyn M. Mazure
(1949) Visionary founder of Women's Health research at Yale
(Inducted 2009)

Barbara McClintock
(1902 - 1992) Famed geneticist and Nobel Prize Winner.
(Inducted 2008)

Dollie McLean
(1936) Founding executive director of the Artists Collective, Hartford.
(Inducted 2003)

Rachel Taylor Milton
(1901-1995) Founder of the Urban League of Hartford.
(Inducted 1994)

Constance Baker Motley
(1921-2005) First female African-American federal court judge; successfully argued nine U. S. Supreme Court civil rights cases.
(Inducted 1998)

Laura Nyro
(1947-1997) Notable song writer and singer.
(Inducted 2001)

Alice Paul
(1885-1977) Leader of women’s suffrage movement, founder of National Woman’s Party.
(Inducted 1994)

Ellen Ash Peters
(1930) First woman to be named a chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
(Inducted 1994)

Ann Petry
(1908-1997) First African-American woman to sell one million copies of a novel, The Street.
(Inducted 1994)

Rosa Ponselle
(1897-1981) Legendary Metropolitan Opera diva, honored on a U. S. postage stamp.
(Inducted 1998)

Sarah Porter
(1813-1900) Educator, founder of Miss Porter’s School.
(Inducted 1994)

Theodate Pope Riddle
(1867-1946) Noted female architect who designed the Hill Stead Museum, and the Avon Old Farms and Westover schools.
(Inducted 1994)

Catherine G. Roraback
(1920-2007) Attorney, foremost advocate for civil liberties.
(Inducted 2001)

Edna N. Negron Rosario
(1944) Educator who established the first family resource center and school-based health clinic in the nation.
(Inducted 1994)

Margo Rose
(1903-1997) Artist, teacher, performer and “grand dame” of the American Puppet Theater.
(Inducted 1997)

Margaret Fogarty Rudkin
(1898-1967) Founder of Pepperidge Farm.
(Inducted 1994)

Rosalind Russell
(1906-1976) Legendary award-winning actress of the stage and screen.
(Inducted 2005)

 

Susan Saint James
(1946) Award-winning television and film star and philanthropist.
(Inducted 1994)

Maria C. Sanchez
(1926-1989) First Hispanic woman to be elected to the Connecticut legislature.
(Inducted 1995)

Mary Townsend Seymour
(1873 - 1957) Pioneering advocate for equal rights for African-Americans, co-founder Hartford Chapter NAACP.
(Inducted 2006)

Lydia Huntley Sigourney
(1791-1865) One of the first American women to succeed at a literary career.
(Inducted 1994)

The Smiths of Glastonbury
Revered elder stateswomen of the suffrage movement.
(Inducted 1994)

Hannah Hadassah Smith
(1767-1850)

Hancy Zephina Smith
(1787-1871)

Cyrinthia Sacretia Smith
(1788-1864)

Laurilla Aleroyla Smith
(1789-1857)

Julia Evelina Smith
(1792-1886)

Abby Hadassah Smith
(1797-1878)

Virginia Thrall Smith
(1836-1903) Activist in support of services to women and children.
(Inducted 1994)

Helen L. Smits
(1937) International healthcare leader and teacher
(Inducted 2009)

Anne Stanback
(1958) Courageous activist for social justice for the lesbian and gay community; founding president of Love Makes a Family.
(Inducted 2006)

Hilda Crosby Standish
(1902-2005) First medical director of Connecticut’s first birth control clinic.
(Inducted 1994)

Joan A. Steitz
(1941) Distinguished professor of molecular biophysics.
(Inducted 2008)

Maria Miller Stewart
(1803-1879) First American-born woman to publicly address mixed gender and race audiences on abolition.
(Inducted 2001)

Harriet Beecher Stowe
(1811-1896) Author, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
(Inducted 1994)

Gladys Tantaquidgeon
(1899-2005) Anthropologist, Mohegan medicine woman.
(Inducted 1994)

Betty C. Tianti
(1929-1994) The nation’s first woman president of a state AFL-CIO.
(Inducted 1994)

Sophie Tucker
(1884-1966) Celebrated singer and actress.
(Inducted 1999)

Antonina Uccello
(1922) First woman to be elected mayor of a Connecticut municipality.
(Inducted 1999)

Glenna Collett Vare
(1903-1989) Golfing champion who dominated American women’s golf in the 1920’s.
(Inducted 2007)

Lillian Vernon
(1929) Founded the first corporation by a woman to be publicly traded on the American Stock Exchange.
(Inducted 1998)

Florence S. Wald
(1916-2008) Founder of hospice care in the United States and a former Dean of the Yale School of Nursing.
(Inducted 1999)

Laura Wheeling Waring
(1887-1948) Artist and educator best known for her landscape paintings and portraits of prominent African Americans.
(Inducted 1997)

Hannah Bunce Watson
(1750-1807) Publisher of the Hartford Courant, one of the first women publishers in America.
(Inducted 1994)

Miriam Therese Winter
(1938) Medical Mission Sister, composer, author and musician; founder of the Women’s Leadership Institute at Hartford Seminary.
(Inducted 2002)

Chase Going Woodhouse
(1890-1984) First woman Secretary of the State of Connecticut.
(Inducted 1994)

Mabel Osgood Wright
(1859-1934) Founder, first president of Connecticut Audubon Society; established first bird sanctuary in the U.S. in Fairfield, CT.
(Inducted 1998)