WOMEN'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS
(a small subset)

thank you to everyone who has helped compile these lists, especially thank you to Madeline Champange. please help us expand this. Send names and accomplishments and date to info@wediditforyou.org

16th CENTURY

Christine de Pisan -- a 15th century writer 

Malinche--Guide for Cortez (and saved his life)--1519

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17th CENTURY

Lady Deborah Moody – 1st modern city planner 1645

Margaret Brent – 1st advocate for Women's Rights in America  1647

Anne Bradstreet – 1st published poet in America 1650 

Margaret Fell - Advocate for men & women ordination in Quakers 1652 

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz--Defends women's rights as a human being--1669

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18th CENTURY

Hannah Callowhill Penn--Ran Pennsylvania Colony after husband's stroke--1712

Anne Bonny--Legendary pirate--1715

Elizabeth Elstob--First Anglo-Saxon grammar published--1715

Laura Bassi--First woman physics professor--1732

Ann Smith Franklin--first female newspaper editor--1737

Benigna Countess von Zinzendorf—started 1st school for young women in US--1742

Eliza Lucas Pinckney--First to grow indigo in US--1744

Barbara R. Heck--First Canadian Methodist Church--1753

Lydia Chapin Taft--first woman to legally vote--1756

Phillis Wheatley--First African-American woman poet--1770

Mercy Otis Warren--1st woman playwright--1772

Penelope Barker--Led 1st political action by women against British--1774

Mother Ann Lee--Founding mother of the Shaker sect--1774

Mary Katherine Goddard--Printer of the Declaration of Independence--1776

Margaret Corbin--Fought in Revolutionary War, granted pension--1776

Jane McCrea--Her murder turned Americans against British--1777

Sybil Ludington--Warned colonists Redcoats were coming--1777

Polly Cooper--Taught Washington's troops to make soup and medicine--1777

Molly Pitcher--Fought in Revolutionary War--1778

Deborah Sampson--First woman to enlist in US armed forces--1782

Olympe de Gouges--Wrote Declaration of the Rights of Women--1791

Mary Wollstonecraft--Wrote the Vindication of the Rights of Woman--1792

Catherine Lidfield Greene--Have the idea for the cotton gin--1793

Hannah Slater--First US patent granted to a woman--1793

Anne Parrish--First charitable org for women operated by women--1795

Marie-Denise Villers--Portrait painter—1799

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19th CENTURY

Sacagawea --Guide for Lewis and Clark expedition--1804

Mary Moody--Aunt who inspired Ralph Waldo Emerson--1811

Mary Young Pickersgill--Made flag flown at Ft. McHenry--1813

Sophie Germain--Key contribution to construction of Eiffel Tower--1816

Emma Hart Willard--Open 1st school of higher education for women--1821

Rebecca Pennock Lukens--Ran the Lukens Steel Company when husband died--1825

Sojourner Truth--1st African-American woman to sue a white man and win--1826

Fanny Wright--Called for women's suffrage, birth control, abolition of slavery--1829

Margaret Fuller--First self-supporting woman journalist--1830

Mary Lyon--Established Wheaton College and Mt. Holyoke College--1834

Angelina Grimke--National Female Anti-Slavery Society founder--1834

Laura Bridgman--First deaf-blind taught to communicate--1836

Lady Caroline Norton--Got Infants’ Custody Act passed in England--1838

Catherine Brewer--1st woman to receive a Bachelor's Degree--1840

Dorothea Dix--leader in prison reform and mental hospital care for needy--1840

Ada Lovelace--1st computer programmer (for Analytic Engine)--1842

Lucy Stone--first woman in Mass. to earn a college degree--1847

Maria Mitchell--discovered Comet 1847 VI--1847

Elizabeth Jane Wimmer--First identified gold in California--1848

Lucretia Mott--Organized First Women's Convention; Swarthmore College--1848

Elizabeth Blackwell--First woman doctor in US--1849

Harriet Beecher Stowe--Antislavery novel, selling 300,000 copies in 1st years--1852

Antoinette Brown Blackwell--First women ordained in US--1853

Jane Cunningham Croly--one of first women to write a syndicated column--1855

Elizabeth J. Graham--won 1st legal victory public transportation discrimination--1855

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody--First English-language kindergarten in US--1860

Catherine Coffin--Helped 2000 slaves across border to Canada--1861

Harriet Tubman--Rescue 300 slaves on Underground Railroad--1861

Harriet Jacobs--first to highlight the struggles of rape within slavery--1861

Anna Ella Carroll--Military strategy helped North win the Civil War--1861

Rose O'Neal Greenhow--Spy for Confederates; helped them win Bull Run--1861

Anne Wittenmeyer--Special Diet Kitchen for Union soldiers--1861

Mary Bickerdyke--Efficient care for Union soldiers--1861

Sally Louise Tompkins--Ran Confederate hospital with 95% survival rate--1861

Mary Livermore--Saved Grant's troops from scurvy--1862

Julia Ward Howe--Write the Battle Hymn to the Republic--1862

Mary Edwards Walker--Surgeon in Civil War, Congressional Medal of Honor--1863

Rebecca Lee Crumpler—1st African-American woman to receive M.D. degree--1864

Kate Mullany--formed the Collar Union, the nation's first all-female union--1864

Sarah Edmonds--Spy and soldier for Union Army, published autobiography--1865

Margaret Gretchell LaForge--Built Macy's Dept. Store into world's largest--1866

Lucy Hobbs Taylor--first female dentist--1866

Arabella Babb Mansfield--First woman lawyer--1869

Esther Hobart Morris--First woman Justice of the Peace--1869

Margaret Knight--Invented grocery bag (and 26 other things)--1870

Abigail Duniway--Began the fight for women's suffrage in Northwest--1871

Cynthia Leonard--Organized the Good Samaritan Society--1871

Charlotte E. Ray—1st African-American woman lawyer--1872

Victoria Woodhull--First woman to run for US presidency--1872

Eliza Tibbetts--Brought navel trees to California--1873

Ellen Swallow Richards--first woman awarded a degree at MIT--1873

Frances Willard-- Women's Christian Temperance Union--1874

Delia Haskett Rawson--first female stage driver--1875

Laura Wylie--First women graduate student at Yale--1876

Maria Speltarini--First to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope--1876

Helen Magill White--1st woman to receive a Ph.D. in U.S. --1877

Isabella Beecher Hooker--Wrote Married Women's Property Rights Bill in CT--1877

Eudora C. Atkinson--1st woman supt., US women's state reformatory--1877

Mother (Mary) Jones--Began organizing labor strikes--1877

Belva Lockwood--First woman to practice law before US Supreme Court--1879

Mary Baker Eddy--First head of Church of Christ, Scientist--1879

Sarah Winnemucca--Protest conditions on Indian reservations--1880

Lydia Hasbrouck--First woman elected to office--1880

Louise Bethune--First woman architect--1881

Amelia Stone Quinton--Found Women's National Indian Association --1881

Helen Hunt Jackson--Publish A Century of Dishonor (about Native Americans) --1881

Mary Lucinda Bonney--Found Women's National Indian Association --1881

Clara Barton--Establish the American Red Cross--1881

Emily Roebling—Finished constructing the Brooklyn Bridge--1883

Alice Austen--first American woman photojournalist--1884

Maud Watson--First winner of Wimbledon women's singles championship--1884

Nellie Bly--Original muckraker--1885

Sarah Goode-- 1st patent African-American woman--1885

Anandibai Joshee --1st Indian woman to earn a medical degree --1886

Suzanne Madora Salter--First woman to become a Mayor--1887

Anna Connelly--Patented first fire escape--1887

Harriet Williams Russell Strong--Patented water storage dam and reservoir--1887

Jane Addams--Found Hull House, one of first settlement houses in US--1889

Susan LaFlesche Picotte—1st Native Amer. woman to receive medical degree--1889

Josephine Cochran--Invented first working dishwasher--1889

Anna Howard Shaw—1st ordained female Methodist minister in US--1889

Elizabeth Cady Stanton—1st pres. National Amer. Woman Suffrage Association--1890

Frances Ellen W. Harper--1st published novel by African-American woman--1890

Matilda Joslyn Gage--Founder of Women's National Liberal Union--1890

Queen Liliuokalani--first and only queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom--1891

Anna Julia Cooper--wrote A Voice from the South (on Black feminism)--1892

Ida Wells-Barnett--Journalist; Campaign against African-American lynchings--1892

Bertha Palmer-- Women’s Building at Chicago's World Columbian Exhibition--1893

Kate Waller Barrett-- Crittendon House to keep mothers and children together--1893

Lillian Wald--Founded Henry Street Settlement for poor immigrant families--1893

Hill sisters--Wrote Happy Birthday song--1893

Katharine Lee Bates--Wrote America the Beautiful--1893

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin--editor Woman's Era- for African-American women--1894

Annie Smith Peck--First to climb 21,812-ft Mt. Huascaran--1895

Alice Guy-Blache--First fiction film--1896

Mary Church Terrell--co-founder National Association of Colored Women--1896

Fanny Farmer--First person to use specific measurements in cooking--1896

Florence Bascom--First woman geologist with US Geological Survey--1896

Alice McLellan Birney--Found PTA--1897

Lena Jordan--First triple somersault on trapeze--1897

Ida Husted Harper--Susan B. Anthony's biographer—1898

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20th CENTURY

Charlotte Cooper--First women's gold medal in Olympics--1900

Mileva Maric--Helped develop theory of relativity--1901

Annie Edson Taylor--First over Niagara Falls in a barrel--1901

Violet Oakley--first American woman to receive a public mural commission--1902

Ida M. Tarbell--Journalist who exposed Standard Oil--1902

Maggie Lena Walker—1st African American woman in U.S. to charter a bank--1903

Mary Anderson--Invented windshield wiper--1903

Mary Kenney--founded National Women's Trade Union League--1903

Anonymous woman--Invented ice cream cone--1904

Anna Jarvis--Creator of Mother's Day--1905

Nettie Stevens--Discovered X and Y sex chromosomes --1905

Mary Harris Jones--co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World--1905

Emma Goldman--Fought for free speech; Published Mother Earth magazine--1906

Florence Kelley--helped pass Pure Food and Drug Act; helped found NAACP--1906

Marietta Pierce Johnson--Founder of progressive School of Organic Education--1907

Mary Pennington--Developed refrigeration--1907

Margaret Dreier--Leader in Women's Trade Union League--1907

Hannah Kent Schoff--International Conference on Child Welfare--1908

Sarah Rooke--Saved Folsom, New Mexico residents from drowning--1908

Henrietta Swan Leavitt--established standards for measuring galaxies--1908

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn-- helped organize the ACLU--1909

Mary B. Talbert--founded National Assn. Advancement of Colored People--1910

Alice Stebbins Wells--First policewoman in US--1910

Florence Lawrence--First movie star--1910

Jane Bowne Haines--founded Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women--1911

Jovita Idar Vivero--first president of the League of Mexican Women--1911

Katharine Ryan Gibbs--founded Katherine Gibbs College--1911

Mignon Talbot--first woman to discover and name a non-bird dinosaur--1911

Clara Elizabeth Chan Lee--First Chinese-American woman to vote in us--1911

Margaret Brown--Hero of the Titanic--1912

Julia Lathrop--First woman to head a US Federal Bureau--1912

Juliette Low--founder of the Girl Scouts of U.S.A.--1912

Rose O'Neill--Kewpie Doll designer--1913

Georgia Broadwick--First intentional parachute jump--1914

Mary Phelps Jacob--designed the first modern bra--1914

Anna Hyatt Huntington--created first public monument by a woman in NYC--1915

Helen Keller--on committee to found American Civil Liberties Union--1915

Lillian Moller Gilbreth --1st industrial psychologist--1915

Anita Loos--First dialogue titles for silent films--1916

Alice Paul--founded National Woman’s Party--1916

Jeannette Rankin--First woman elected to Congress--1916

Lucy Burns--Formed National Women's Party--1916

Margaret Sanger--Opened first family planning clinic--1916

Madam C.J. Walker--First African-American female millionaire--1917

Anna Coleman Ladd--Established facial prosthetics workshop (anaplastology)--1917

Elizebeth Smith Friedman--first female cryptanalyst--1917

Lise Meitner--Discovered element Protactinium--1917

Leola N. King--first female traffic cop--1918

Julia Morgan--Architect of Hearst Castle--1919

Alice Hamilton--first woman appointed to faculty of Harvard University--1919

Susan Glaspell--Founded Provincetown Players--1919

Louise Pearce--Wipe out sleeping sickness—1919

Freda Ehmann--Invented California olive industry--1920

Georgia O'Keefe--Landscape and flower painter--1920

Adela Rogers St. Johns--Exposed corruption in LA government--1920

Rose Schneiderman--founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union--1920

Mamie Smith--first African American artist to make vocal blues recordings--1920

Edith Wilson--Controlled the White House after Wilson's stroke--1920

Carrie Chapman Catt--Founder of League of Women Voters--1920

Bessie Coleman--first African-American woman to hold a pilot license--1921

Sylvia Beach--Published James Joyce's Ulysses--1922

Nina Otero-Warren--first Latina to run for Congress--1922

Edith Clarke--first woman professionally employed as electrical engineer in US--1922

Nellie Ross--First woman to become a Governor--1924

Lois Lilley Howe--first woman admitted to A.I.A, architecture inst.--1926

Lotte Reiniger--First full-length animated film--1926

Janet Gaynor--first woman to win Oscar for Best Actress--1927

Amelia Earhart--First woman to fly solo across Atlantic--1928

Marjorie Henderson Buel--Little Lulu cartoon--1930

Dorothy Eustis--First to bring seeing eye dogs to US--1930

Ruth Graves Wakefield--Invented chocolate chips--1930

Ida Henrietta Hyde--Invented microelectrode--1930

Gladys Tantaquidgian--co-founded oldest museum by Native Americans--1931

Katherine Sui Fun Cheng-- 1st Asian-American woman aviator--1932

Dorothy Day--co-founded The Catholic Worker newspaper--1933

Florence Price—1st work by African-Amer. woman played by major orchestra--1933

Florence P. Kahn--1st woman appointed to US House Appropriations Cmte--1933

Frances Perkins--First woman Cabinet Post--1933

Hattie Caraway--First woman elected to Senate--1933

Grace Abbott--Helped to draft the Social Security Act--1934

Dorothy Height--president National Council of Negro Women for 40 years--1935

Margaret Mead--Wrote Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies--1935

Beryl Markham--First to fly non-stop from England to North America--1936

Martha Graham--first dancer to perform at the White House--1938

"Babe" Didrikson Zaharias--Only woman ever to make the PGA Tour cut--1938

Emma Tenayuca--led the 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike--1938

Luisa Moreno--convened Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española--1939

Lise Meitner--Discovered nuclear fission--1939

Doris Fleeson--First woman political columnist--1940

Fumiko Hayashida--iconic photo became symbol for WWII Japanese interment--1942

Annie G. Fox--first woman awarded Purple Heart medal for combat--1942

Barbara L. Stratton--first woman commissioned officer in U.S. Coast Guard--1942

Lillian Hellman—1st female screenwriter to get Academy Award nomination--1943

Anna Mac Clarke--first African American women to be a commanding officer--1943

Chien-Shiung Wu--Only Chinese-American to work Manhattan Project--1944

Helen Brooke Taussig--Solved 'blue baby' problems--1945

Eleanor Roosevelt--First Chairperson of the UN Human Rights Commission--1946

Tye Leung Shulze—1st Chinese American woman to pass civil service exams--1946

Gerty Cori--first woman to win Nobel Prize in Medicine--1947

Edith Clarke--first female professor of electrical engineering in the U.S.--1947

Mary Church Terrell—1st black member of American Assn University Women--1948

Alice Coachman--first African-American woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal--1948

Eugenie Anderson--First woman US ambassador--1949

Dorothy Vaughn--first African-American supervisor at NACA--1949

Georgia Lusk--Introduced free textbooks into New Mexico schools--1950

Juanita Hall--First African American to win Tony Award--1950

Gwendolyn Brooks--1st African-American to receive Pulitzer Prize for Poetry--1950

Hattie Alexander--Treat bacterial meningitis--1950

Marion Donovan--Invented disposable diaper--1950

Althea Gibson--First African-American to play at Wimbledon--1950

Christine Stevens--founded Animal Welfare Institute--1951

Marguerite Higgiins—1st woman Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Correspondence--1951

Rosalind Franklin--Photographed the double helix of DNA--1951

Bessie Nesmith--Invented liquid paper--1951

Virginia Apgar--Develop medical tests for newborns--1952

Grace Murray Hopper --1st compiler for programming languages--1952

Mary G. Ross--first woman engineer at Lockheed’s Missiles Systems Division--1952

Peace Pilgrim--walked across US for 28 years (25,000 miles) to promote Peace--1953

Annie Dodge Wuaneka--head Navajo Tribal Council Health and Welfare Comte--1953

Katherine Johnson--one of 1st African-American women NASA scientist--1953

Jacqueline Cochran--first woman to break the sound barrier--1953

Clair Booth Luce--first woman appointed to an ambassadorial role abroad--1953

Norma Sklarek--1st African American woman licensed as an architect--1954

Septima Pointsette-- Citizenship Schools for voter registration literacy tests--1954

Dorothy Dandridge --1st African Amer woman nominated Best Actress Oscar--1954

Louise Boyd--First woman to fly over North Pole--1955

Christine Stevens--mother of Animal Welfare Act and Endangered Species Act--1955

Rosa Parks--Icon of Civil Rights Movement--1955

Elizabeth Eckford—1st African-Amer. student to integrate white southern HS--1957

Daisy Bates--Leading role in Little Rock Nine crisis--1957

Gertrud Belle Elion--developed the first immunosuppressant agent--1957

Mary Jackson--NASA's first African-American female engineer--1958

Mary Leakey--Found 1.75 million-year old 'missing link'--1959

Nancy Grace Roman--known as “Mother of Hubble” at NASA--1959

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow--Invented radioimmunoassay--1959

Wilma Rudolph—1st American woman to win 3 Gold Medals in Olympics--1960

Esther Peterson--Women's Bureau Dept. of Labor; nutrition labels on food--1961

Norma Yaeger--first woman stockbroker on floor of New York Stock Exchange--1962

Frances Kelsey--Stopped thalidomide sales in US--1962

Martha Wright Griffith—1st woman on House Ways and Means Comte--1962

Rachel Louise Carson--Wrote Silent Spring; lead to nationwide ban on DDT--1962

Dolores Huerta--cofounder of United Farm Workers Union--1962

Edith Quimby--first to establish radiation levels human body could tolerate--1962

Maria Goeppert Mayer--2nd female Nobel Laureate in Physics--1963

Aileen Hernandez--first woman on Equal Employment Opportunity Council--1964

Phyllis Schlafly--Wrote A Choice, Not An Echo--1964

Lillian Moller Gilbreth –1st woman elected National Academy of Engineering--1965

Barbara "Dusty" Roads--filed the first anti-discrimination complaint to EEOC --1965

Patsy Takemoto Mink --1st Asian-American woman elected to Congress--1965

Betty Friedan--co-founded NOW--1966

Lorraine Schneider-- War Is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things--1966

Constance Baker Motley—1st Afri. Amer. woman appointed federal judiciary--1966

Muriel F. Siebert--first woman to hold a seat on the N.Y.  Stock Exchange--1967

Mildred Loving--landmark victory inter-racial marriage Supreme Court case --1967

Elizabeth Duncan Koontz—1st African-American pres. National Education Assn--1967

Barbara Dulinsky --1st woman Marine ordered to a combat zone--1967

Kathrine Switzer--first woman to run the Boston Marathon--1967

Coretta Scott King--founded MLK Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change--1968

Shirley Chisolm--first African-American woman elected to U.S. Congress--1968

Joan Ganz Cooney--founder of Children's Television Network--1969

Edna Hibel--pioneered secret process of lithographs on porcelain--1970

Edna Beach--founder of the Coalition of 100 Black Women--1970

Gracia Molina de Pick--Co-founded first national feminist Chicana Association--1970

Maggie Kuhn--founded Gray Panthers--1970

Graciela Olivarez--first woman to graduate from Notre Dame Law School--1970

Marcia Devins Greenberger--first full-time Women’s Rights Lawyer in D.C--1970

Anna Mae Hays --1st woman general in US military--1970

Bernice 'Bunny' Sandler--The 'godmother' of Title IX--1970

Kathleen C. Taylor--developed catalytic converters for cars--1970

Patricia Palinkas--first woman to play professional football—1970

Judy Heumann-- civil rights advocate for people with disabilities--1970

Sally Reed--won Supreme Court case prohibiting differential treatment--1971

Helen Reddy--Co-wrote "I Am Woman" - anthem of the women's movement--1971

Bella Abzug--co-organize National Women's Political Caucus--1971

Dorothy Pitman Hughes--Co-founded Women’s Action Alliance--1971

Florynce Kennedy--Co-organizer of Women's Political Caucus--1971

Myrlie Evers-Williams--Co-organize National Women's Political Caucus--1971

Stephanie Louise Kwolek--Invented kevlar (used in bulletproof vests)--1971

Katherine Graham--1st woman CEO of Fortune 500 company--1972

Gloria Steinem--Founding editor of Ms. Magazine--1972

Ethel L. Payne—1st female African-American commentator national network--1972

Shirley Chisolm—1st Afric.-Amer. candidate major party's nomination US Pres--1972

Sally Jean Priesand--1st woman ordained as a rabbi in U.S.--1972

Norma McCorvey--plaintiff in landmark Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision--1973

Julia Phillips--first woman to win Oscar for Best Picture--1973

Margaret Sloan-Hunter—1st president National Black Feminist Organization--1973

Marian Wright Edelman--founded Children's Defense Fund--1973

Anne Legendre--First female cochair of Rep National Committee--1974

Ella Grasso--First woman elected governor in her own right--1974

Rev. Katie G. Cannon—1st Afri-Amer. woman ordained United Presbyn Church--1974

Jill Ker Conway--first female president of Smith College--1975

Maria Roy--Started Abused Women's Aid in Crisis in New York--1975

Elizabeth A. Seton—1st native-born American saint in Roman Catholic Church--1975

Barbara C. Jordan—1st African-American keynote address Dem. Nat. Conv.--1976

Helen Hayes--first woman to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award--1977

Frances Kissling--founding president of the National Abortion Federation--1977

Ethelene Crockett—1st woman president of the American Lung Association--1977

Barbara Mikulski—1st Democratic woman Senator elected in her own right--1977

Patricia Roberts Harris --First African-American woman cabinet member--1977

Janet Guthrie--first women in Indy 500--1977

Lois Marie Gibbs--founded Love Canal Homeowners Association--1978

Nancy Duff Campbell--co-Founder of the National Women’s Law Center--1978

Judy Chicago--first epic feminist artwork, symbolic history of women in history--1979

Elaine Showalter-- founder of gynocritics--1979

Lorrie Otto--initiated "Wild Ones", founder of natural landscaping movement--1979

Peggy Schirmer--founded Concerned Educators Allied for a Safe Environment--1979

Beverly Kelley --1st woman commander of a US military ship--1979

Ingrid Newkirk--co-founder of P.E.T.A., world's largest animal rights org.--1980

Bettina Werner--invented textured colorized salt crystal technique in art--1980

Joyce D. Miller—1st woman elected to the executive board of the AFL-CIO--1980

Brooksley Born—1st woman ABA’s Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary --1980

Wilma Vaught—1st woman brigadier general in the comptroller career field--1980

LaDonna Vita Tabbytite Harris—1st Native American woman to run for VP--1980

Danica Patrick—1st woman to win the pole position at the Daytona 500--1980

Maya Lin--designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.--1981

Sandra Day O'Connor--First woman to serve on Supreme Court--1981

Rebecca S. Halstead—1st female graduate West Point general officer--1981

Samantha Smith--at age 10 accepted invitation to visit Soviet Union--1982

Patricia Joy Numann--founder of the Association of Women Surgeons--1982

Sally Ride--1st U.S. woman astronaut in space--1983

Barbara McClintock-- only woman unshared Nobel Prize in Medicine--1983

Roxanne Quimby--co-founded Burt's Bees personal care products--1984

Barbra Streisand--first woman to win the Golden Globe for best director--1984

Isabell Masters--started political party, Looking Back, ran for pres 5 times--1984

Geraldine Ferraro--first woman candidate for VP of a major political party --1984

Jean Arden Eversmeyer--founded Lesbians Over Age Fifty--1985

Flossie Wong-Staal--first to clone HIV and determine the function of its genes--1985

Wilma ManKiller--First woman chief of the Cherokee Nation--1985

Mary Guinan—1st woman chief scientific advisor at Center Disease Control--1986

Lenore Janis—1st woman dir Bureau Building Management NYC Dept Sanitn--1986

Lillian Vernon—1st female-founded company publicly traded Amer. Stock Exc--1987

Susan Solomon--solo leader and only woman on National Ozone Expedition--1987

Aretha Franklin--first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame--1987

Lenora Fulani—1st woman and Afr. Amer on every state's ballot as Indep--1988

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen--1st Hispanic woman elected to Congress--1989

Barbara Clementine Harris--First female Episcopal bishop--1989

Darlene C. Hine--introduced concept Black women's Culture of Dissemblance--1989

Lorna Simpson—1st African Amer woman solo exhibition Mus. Modern Art--1990

Helen Greiner--co-founded iRobot--1990

Wendy Kopp--founder of Teach for America--1990

Antonia Novello--1st woman & 1st Hispanic U.S. Surgeon General --1990

Sylvia A. Earle—1st female chief scientist U.S. Nat. Ocean Atmospheric Admin--1990

Betsy Damon--founded Keepers of the Waters--1991

Marna Tucker--First woman president National Conference of Bar Presidents--1991

Vivian W. Pinn--first director of NIH Office of Research Women's Health--1991

Sharon Pratt Dixon--first black woman to serve as mayor of major city--1991

Jane Goodall--founded Tchimpouga Chimpanzee Rehibilitation Center--1992

Agatha Tiegel Hanson--first president of O.W.L.S. (Phi Beta Kappa)--1992

Phyllis Glazer--founded Mothers Organized to Stop Environmental Sin--1992

Rebecca Walker--coined "third wave feminism"--1992

Alexis Herman--first African-American to hold office of U.S. Secretary of Labor--1992

Ellen Ochoa--first Hispanic woman in space--1993

Ada Deer--first woman to head the Bureau of Indian Affairs--1993

Janet Reno--1st woman U.S. attorney general--1993

Toni Morrison—1st Afric-Amer. woman awarded Nobel Prize in Literature --1993

Alice Waters--founded Chez Panisse Foundation, Edible Schoolyard program--1996

Amy Goodman--co-founded Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report--1996

Dorothea Lange--MoMA 1st retrospective solo exhibit female photographer--1996

Madeleine Albright --First woman Secretary of State--1997

Anne Sullivan--lifelong teacher and companion to Helen Keller--1998

Rita R. Colwell--first female director of the National Science Foundation--1998

Florence Griffith Joyner--fastest woman of all time--1998

Julie Taymor--first woman to win a Tony Award for best direction of a musical--1998

Lt. Col. Eileen Collins—1st woman astronaut command space shuttle mission—1999

21st CENTURY

Hillary Rodham Clinton--first First Lady to run for public office--2000

Okolo Rashid--co-founder first Islamic culture and history museum in U.S.--2001

Elaine Chao--1st Asian-American woman Cabinet member--2001

Sister Dorothy Stang--recognized by the Vatican as a modern day martyr--2005

Cristeta Comerford—1st woman White House executive chef--2005

Tarana Burke--started #MeToo movement--2006

Osprey Orielle Lake--founder Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network Intl--2006

Drew Gilpin Faust--first woman president at Harvard University--2007

Lauren Bush--founder of FEED Projects, a social business to fight world hunger--2007

Kathryn Bigelow--1st woman to win Oscar for Best Director--2008

Ann E. Dunwoody-- 1st US female four-star general--2008

Peggy Whitson-- only woman to command International Space Station twice--2008

Elinor Ostrom--first woman to win Nobel Prize in Economics--2009

Sonia Sotomayor-- 1st Hispanic woman U.S. Supreme Court Justice--2009

Nikki Haley—1st Asian Amer and Indian Amer woman to serve as governor--2010

Susana Martinez--first Latina woman to serve as governor of American state--2010

Jessica Watson--Youngest person to sail solo and unassisted around world--2010

Ginni Rometty--only female CEO of IBM--2012

Sheryl Sandberg--first female member of Facebook board of directors--2012

Elizabeth MacDonough--first female ever named as Senate parliamentarian--2012

Tammy Duckworth--first woman with a disability elected to Congress--2012

Patrisse Cullors--co-founder of Black Lives Matter--2013

Mary Barra--first female CEO of GM, first woman to lead a major automaker--2014

Admiral Michelle Howard--first woman Four-Star Admiral--2014

Mia Love--first African American Republican woman U.S. House of Reps.--2014

Lauryn Williams—1st Amer. woman medal in Summer & Winter Olympics--2014

Amariyanna Copeny--at age 8, wrote letter to Pres about Flint MI water crisis--2015

Megan Brannon--first woman Postmaster General U.S. Postal Service--2015

Danell Lynn--Guinness record world's longest motorcycle journey in single ctry--2015

Winona LaDuke—1st Native Amer. woman to get Electoral College vote for VP--2016

Tammy Duckworth--first senator to give birth while in office--2016

Kamela Harris--First South Asian American to serve in US Senate--2016

Carla Hayden—1st woman, 1st African American Librarian of Congress--2016

Stacey Cunningham--first female president of the New York Stock Exchange--2018

Shonda Rhimes--co-creator of the Times Up movement--2018

Gina Haspel--first female Director of the CIA--2018

Peggy Whitson--US record for the most time spent in space - 665 days--2018

Cynthia Marshall—1st black woman to serve as business leader of NBA team--2018

Kylie Jenner--named Forbes' youngest-ever self-made billionaire--2019

Laura Yeager--first woman to lead an Army infantry division--2019

Ilhan Omar--first Somali American to serve in Congress--2019

Christina Koch--First all-woman spacewalk (with Jessica Meir)--2019

Jessica Meir--First all-woman spacewalk (with Christina Koch)--2019

Karen Uhlenbeck--first woman to win the prestigious Abel Prize--2019

Mikaela Shiffrin--first skier to win 17 World Cup races in one alpine ski season--2019

Juane Q. Smith--first painting on canvas Native Amer. artist in Nat. Gallery Art--2020

Kamela Harris--First woman VP--2020

Katie Sowers--first woman to coach a Super Bowl--2020

Suzanne Clark--first woman CEO of U.S. Chamber of Commerce--2021

LaKeisha Myers--introduced Breonna's Law Wisconsin Legislature--2021

Deb Haaland--first Native American U.S. Secretary of Department of Interior--2021

Janet Yellen--first woman U.S. Treasury Secretary--2021

Bianca Smith--first African American woman professional baseball coach--2021

Sarah Johnson--first female referee to officiate a Super Bowl game--2021