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Virginia Women in History was an annual program sponsored by the Library of Virginia that honored Virginia women, living and dead, for their contributions to their community, region, state, and nation. The program began in 2000 under the aegis of the Virginia Foundation for Women and Delta Kappa Gamma Society International; from 2006 to 2020 it was administered by the Library of Virginia. In 2021, it was replaced by the Strong Men and Women in Virginia History program.

2000 honorees

2001 honorees

2002 honorees

2003 honorees

2004 honorees

2005 honorees

2006 honorees

  • Katherine Harwood Waller Barrett (1865–1948), Henrico County, physician and educator
  • Sister Marie Majella Berg (1916–2004), Arlington County, president of Marymount University
  • John-Geline MacDonald Bowman (1890–1946), Richmond, business executive
  • Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (1906–1992), Arlington County, computer scientist and rear admiral
  • Mary Tyler Freeman Cheek McClenahan (1917–2005), Richmond, civic leader
  • Benita Fitzgerald Mosley (born 1961), Haymarket, media executive and Olympic gold medalist
  • G. Anne Nelson Richardson (born 1956), King and Queen County, Rappahannock chief
  • Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune (1830–1922), Amelia County, writer

2007 honorees

2008 honorees

2009 honorees

2010 honorees

  • Mollie Holmes Adams (1881–1973), King William County, Upper Mattaponi leader
  • Ethel Bailey Furman (1893–1976), Richmond, architect
  • Edythe C. Harrison (born 1934), Norfolk, civic leader
  • Janis Martin (1940–2007), Danville, singer and composer
  • Kate Mason Rowland (1840–1916), Richmond, writer
  • Jean Miller Skipwith (1748–1826), Mecklenburg County, book collector
  • Queena Stovall (1888–1980), Lynchburg and Amherst County, artist
  • Marian A. Van Landingham (born 1937), Alexandria, civic leader

2011 honorees

  • Lucy Addison (1861–1937), Roanoke, educator
  • Eleanor Bontecou (1891–1976), Arlington County, attorney
  • Emily White Fleming (1855–1941), Fredericksburg, preservationist
  • Pearl Fu (born 1941), Roanoke, civic leader
  • Lillian Lincoln Lambert (born 1940), Mechanicsville, businesswoman and author
  • Bessie Niemeyer Marshall (1884–1960), Petersburg, botanical illustrator
  • Felicia Warburg Rogan (born 1927), Albemarle County, vintner
  • Elizabeth Henry Campbell Russell (1749–1825), Saltville, Methodist lay leader

2012 honorees

Monica Beltran, a soldier in the Virginia Army National Guard who was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Valor, one of the 2012 honorees.
  • Susie May Ames (1888–1969), Accomack County, historian
  • Monica Beltran (born 1985), Woodbridge, army Bronze Star Medal recipient
  • Christiana Burdett Campbell (c. 1723–1792), Williamsburg, innkeeper
  • Betty Sams Christian (1922–2006), Richmond, business executive and philanthropist
  • Elizabeth Peet McIntosh (1915–2015), Woodbridge, intelligence agent
  • Orleana Hawks Puckett (died 1939), Patrick and Carroll Counties, midwife
  • Judith Shatin (born 1949), Charlottesville, composer
  • Alice Jackson Stuart (1913–2001), Richmond, principal in a 1935 civil rights turning point

2013 honorees

  • Mary C. Alexander (1893–1955), Lynchburg, aviator
  • Louise A. Reeves Archer (1893–1948), Vienna, educator
  • Elizabeth Ambler Brent Carrington (1765–1842), Richmond, civic leader
  • Ann Compton (born 1947), Roanoke, news correspondent
  • JoAnn Falleta (born 1954), Norfolk, musician
  • Cleo Powell (born 1957), Brunswick County, judge
  • Inez Pruitt (born 1962), Tangier Island, physician assistant
  • Eva Mae Fleming Scott (1926–2019), Amelia County, legislator, recipient of the VABPW Foundation Business Leadership Award

2014 honorees

  • Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford (1802–1896), Fredericksburg, antislavery activist
  • Naomi Silverman Cohn (1888–1982), Richmond, civic activist
  • Elizabeth Ashburn Duke (born 1952), Virginia Beach, banker, recipient of the VABPW Foundation Business Leadership Award
  • Rachel Findlay (c. 1750–d. after August 17, 1820), Wythe County, principal in a freedom suit
  • Christine Herter Kendall (1890–1981), Bath County, artist and patron of the arts
  • Mildred Delores Jeter Loving (1939–2008), Caroline County, principal in a 1967 civil rights turning point
  • Deborah A. "Debbie" Ryan (born 1952), Albemarle County, basketball coach and cancer treatment advocate
  • Stoner Winslett (born 1958), Richmond, artistic director and choreographer

2015 honorees

  • Nancy Melvina Caldwell (1868–1956), Carroll County, legislator
  • Nikki Giovanni (born 1943), Blacksburg, poet
  • Ruth Coles Harris (born 1928), Richmond, business professor
  • Dorothy Shoemaker McDiarmid (1906–1994), Fairfax County, legislator
  • Rebekah Dulaney Peterkin (1849–1891), Richmond, philanthropist
  • Vivian W. Pinn (born 1941), Lynchburg, pathologist and women's health advocate
  • Elizabeth Bray Allen, also known as Elizabeth Bray Allen Smith Stith (c. 1692–1774), Isle of Wight County, planter and philanthropist
  • Karenne Wood (1960–2019), Fluvanna County, Virginia Indian scholar and advocate

2016 honorees

  • Flora D. Crittenden (1924–2021), Newport News, educator and legislator
  • Mary Elizabeth Nottingham Day (1907–1956), Staunton, artist
  • Sarah A. Gray (c. 1847–1893), Alexandria, educator
  • Edwilda Gustava Allen Isaac (1937–2022), Farmville, civil rights pioneer
  • Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson (1918–2020), Hampton, mathematician
  • Ana Ines Barragan King (born 1957), Richmond, founder and Artistic Director of the Latin Ballet of Virginia
  • Betty Masters (1929–2015), Salem, photojournalist
  • Meyera Oberndorf (1941–2015), Virginia Beach, mayor

2017 honorees

  • Corazon Sandoval Foley (born 1950), Fairfax County, community activist
  • Nora Houston (1883–1942), Richmond, artist and social reformer
  • Cynthia Eppes Hudson (born 1959), Nottoway County, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Virginia
  • Mary Virginia Jones (born 1940), Prince William County, mechanical engineer
  • Louise Harrison McCraw(1893–1975), Buckingham, author and executive secretary of the Braille Circulating Library
  • Doris Crouse-Mays (born 1958), Wythe County, labor leader
  • Undine Smith Moore (1904–1989), Ettrick, educator and composer
  • Martha Rollins (born 1943), Richmond, community activist and philanthropist; recipient of the VABPW Foundation Business Leadership Award

2018 honorees

2019 honorees

  • Sharifa Alkhateeb (1946–2004) Muslim writer and teacher
  • Queen Ann (Pamunkey chief) (fl. 1706–1712)
  • Claudia Lane Dodson (1941–2007), women's sports advocate
  • India Hamilton (c. 1879 – 1950), educator
  • Georgeanna Seegar Jones (1912–2005), American physician who with her husband, Howard W. Jones, pioneered in vitro fertilization in the United States
  • Ona Maria Judge (c. 1773 – 1848), Fugitive slave of US President George Washington, who successfully escaped Mount Vernon. The Washington family never pursued her, but never freed her.
  • Lucy Randolph Mason (1882–1959), civil rights activist, labor activist and suffragette
  • Kate Peters Sturgill (1907–1975), musician and folk song collector

2020 honorees

  • Pauline Adams (1874–1957), suffragist
  • Fannie Bayly King (1864–1951), social reformer and suffragist
  • Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis (1851–1946), suffragist
  • Sophie G. Meredith (1851–1928), suffragist
  • Josephine Mathes Norcom (1873–1927), community activist and suffragist
  • Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon (1890–1979), suffragist and labor economist
  • Ora Brown Stokes (1882–1957), educator, probation officer, temperance worker, and clubwoman
  • Lila Meade Valentine (1865–1921), reformer and suffragist
  • Maggie Lena Mitchell Walker (1864–1934), entrepreneur and civil rights leader
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