Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Georgia women

WiR redlist index: Georgia women

Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR). Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our scope is women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues, broadly construed.

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This is a redlist of women from Georgia (U.S. state). It is based on multiple sources including:

Georgia Women of Achievement (gwa)
Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame (gahof)
Georgia Music Hall of Fame (music)
Georgia Newspaper Hall of Fame (gnhof)
Georgia Sports Hall of Fame (sports)
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame (gwhof)
New Georgia Encyclopedia (nge)
Notable Black American Women via Wikipedia library (woc)
List of first women lawyers and judges in Georgia (law)
Woman of the Century (1893 book) (wikisource)

Follow the links to those pages to find sources to start with, if there are none on the wiki page click through to the associated website. There are also a few women listed here who aren't in any of the above lists, feel free to add more manually. Also, the NGE list (linked below) has not been updated in a while so there are no doubt some newer NGE articles that should be added below.

Biographies[edit]

Willette Alona Allen (1862–1941) educator, kindergarten movement
Annie Ogburn Anderson (1877–1962) first woman judge in Georgia law
Ruby M. Anderson (1893-1978) Educator gwa
Elena Diaz-Verson Amos (1926–2000) philanthropist nge
Madeleine Kiker Anthony (1903–1989) historic preservation gwa
Clarice Cross Bagwell (1914–2001) educator gwa
Sarah Randolph Bailey (1885–1972) Girl Reserves for black girls gwa
Dicksie Bradley Bandy (1890–1971) textile industry, historic preservation gwa
Laura Belle Barnard (1907-1992) missionary nge
Sally Smalley Bell (born 1953?) basketball referee sports
Jacqueline Harrison Barrett (born 1940) sheriff woc
Minna McLeod Beck (1880–1959) artist, educator, author
Sarah Amanda Clayton Blake founder of an Atlanta beauty school
Ruth Blair (1889–1974) state historian of Georgia
Adrienne Bond (1933–1996) poet, writer nge
Vinnie Ream Boyd (1879–1970) monologist, lecturer
Connie Bowlin (born 1955) civil aviation gahof
Margaret O. Bynum (1921–1982) educator gwa
Carolyn H. Byrd (born 1949) business executive woc
Jessie M. Candlish (1877-1964) longtime administrator of Egleston Hospital for Children
Henrietta Canty (1929–2002) represented Atlanta in Georgia General Assembly 1975-1980, 1990-1998
Carolyn Mackenzie Carter (1919–2010) photojournalist gwa
Betty Jean Clark (1944/1945-2011) Georgia General Assembly 1973-1990
Maud Barker Cobb (1870-1925) librarian
Laura Mays Coble (born 1962?) golf sports
Julia L. Coleman (1889–1973) educator gwa
Wessie Gertrude Connell (1915–1987) librarian gwa, nge
Anne Margaret Cooke or Anne Reid Cooke or Anne Cooke Reid (1907-????) theater educator, wife of Ira De Augustine Reid, granddaughter of Wilson Cooke woc
Nina Pearl Cox (1892–1956) first woman school superintendent in Georgia
Bessie Kempton Crowell (1893–1981) first woman elected to Georgia Legislature, alongside Viola Ross Napier in 1922
Constance Curry (1933–2020) author, civil rights activist
Edna Cain Daniel (1875–1957) writer, journalist gnhof
Rosemary Daniell (born 1935) writer nge
Janice Daugharty (born 1944) writer nge
Sallie Ellis Davis (1877–1950) educator gwa
Miriam Howard Dubose (1862–1945) women's suffrage wikisource
Kathryn Dunaway (1906–1980) anti-ERA campaigner
Willie Snow Ethridge (1898-1982) writer, journalist, civil rights activist
Vera “Punkin” Flock (1918–1978) trapshooting sports
Edith Lenora Foster (1906–1996) librarian, writer, historian gwa
Nettie Bess Fouche (1888-1978) first woman superior court clerk in Georgia
Frances Smith Foster (born 1944) former Emory professor of women's studies woc
Mary Louise Fowler (1907–1979) tennis sports
Charlotte Fogg Frye (1893–1983) woman pilot gahof
Marie Davis Gadsden (1919–2012) philanthropic administrator woc
Frances Poole King Garlington (1904–1991) trapshooting sports
Anne Richardson Gayles-Felton (born 1923) educator
Amilee Chastain Graves (1910–1983) publisher, politician gwa
Dinah M. Gretsch (born 1950) guitar manufacturing music
Eleanor Guest (1940-1997) singer
Terri Moody Hancock (born 1960?) golf sports
Anne Paradise Hansford (born 1924) basketball sports
Ethel Hillyer Harris (18??–19??) author, journalist wikisource
Judia C. Jackson Harris (1873–after 1949) educator woc
Julia Collier Harris (1885–1967) writer, journalist gwa, gnhof, gwhof
Beverly J. Harvard (born 1950) police chief woc
Evelyn Hanna (1900–1982) writer nge
Geneva Haugabrooks (1888-1977) businesswoman, funeral home operator
Louise Frederick Hays (1881–1951) historian gwa
Sarah Harper Heard (1853–1919) traveling library gwa
Patsy Jo Hilliard (born 1937) first woman and first Black mayor of East Point, Georgia woc
Marion Stegeman Hodgson (1921–2016) WASP gahof
Cora Catherine Calhoun Horne (1865–1932) activist, grandmother of Lena Horne woc
Edith Elizabeth House (1903-1987) first woman law grad at UGA, first woman US Attorney in Florida law
Annie Hornaday Howard (1882–1965) author, journalist
Helen Augusta Howard (1865–1934) suffragist - Currently a REDIRECT, but history contains the start of an article.
May duBignon Stiles Howard (1894–1983) health care gwa
Anne Wallace Howland (1866–1960) librarian
Dorothy Hubbard (born 19??) first woman mayor of Albany, Georgia
Anna Colquitt Hunter (1892–1985) historic preservation gwa
Edith Jacqueline Ingram Grant (1942–2020) first black ordinary judge; first black probate judge in Georgia woc law
Vara A. Majette (1875-1974) lawyer, author, artist
Lenna Gertrude Clarke Judd (1865–1939) clubwoman, philanthropist
Gwen Muriel Kesler (born 1925) music industry executive music
Annie Laurie Fuller Kurtz (1884–1946) writer of history
Love Moreland Leigh (1867–1956) creator of "Love Leigh" dolls
Shirley A. R. Lewis (born 1937) President of Paine College in Augusta woc
Mary Thomas Lumpkin (1857–1932) organized first garden club in Georgia
Rufe McCombs Maulsby (1918–2012) first elected judge in Georgia, without a prior appointment law
Bettye J. McClendon (1933-2019) basketball sports
Mary Lamar Knight McConnell (1899–1996) journalist for UPI
Heather Stepp McCormick (born 1972) gymnastics sports
Carrie L. McDaniel (1878–1952) first woman elected to a political office in Georgia
Emily C. McDougald (1848/1849–1938) women's suffrage
Lula Dobbs McEachern (1874–1949) educator, missionary gwa
Lucy Barrow McIntire (1886–1975) civic activist gwa
Mary Latimer McLendon (1840–1921) women's suffrage nge
Aurelia Roach McMillan (1865-1957) educator wikisource
May Melton (1923–2014) newspaper publisher gnhof
Madge Hilburn Methvin (1900–1982) newspaper publisher gnhof
Sue Methvin (1898–1965) concrete products manufacturer
Sue Harper Mims (1842–1913) Christian Scientist in Atlanta
Susie Jane Tillman Moore (1868–1951) first woman elected to Georgia Senate (in 1932)
Ruth Hartley Mosley (1886–1975) philanthropist gwa
Sarah McLendon Murphy (1892–1954) children's activist gwa
Liz Murphey (1933-2005) coach sports
Marie Antoinette Graves Nash (1892-1984) Gate City Day Nursery Association - free kindergarten for Black children
Isa-Beall Williams Neel (1861–1953) educator nge
Jean League Newton (1919–2000) architect, daughter of Ellamae Ellis League
Beulah Rucker Oliver (1888–1963) educator gwa
Passie Fenton McCabe Ottley (1870–1940) clubwoman, philanthropist
Nina Anderson Pape (1869–1944) educator gwa
Monica Jones Kaufman Pearson (born 1947) broadcast journalist music
Medora Field Perkerson (1892–1960) author, newspaper columnist
Adelaide Wallace Ponder (1925–2015) journalist, won NNA Emma C. McKinney award in 1994
Emily Katherine Reid owner/president of Crichton's Business College in Atlanta
Barbara "Babs" Janet Hamby Richardson (1928–2006) music industry executive music
Dorothy A. Robinson (1938-2017) first woman judge on a court of record; first woman temporary Supreme Court judge law
Mary Waterman Phillips Rushton (1896-1984) founder of Rushton Toy Co.
Ina Dillard Russell (1868–1963) mother of Richard Russell Jr. nge
Patricia A. Russell-McCloud (born 1946) motivational speaker woc
Pearl Sandow (1902–2006) baseball fan nge
Cynthia Shearer (born 1955) writer gwhof
Frances Murray Smith aka Allie Murray Smith (1905-2000) is currently a redirect to her daughter, Rosalynn Carter gwa
Jane E. Smith (born 1946) women's rights, ngos woc
Missouri H. Stokes (1838–1910) temperance movement, half sister to Mary Ann Harris Gay wikisource
Edna P. Lowe Swift (born 1949) first black woman to graduate from Agnes Scott College '71
Marian A. Sumner (1912-1999) journalist, won NNA Emma C. McKinney award in 1989
May Erwin Talmadge (1885-1973) president of Daughters of the American Revolution (44-47)
Mary Telfair (1791–1875) philanthropist nge
Brenda Cliette Thomas (born 1964?) basketball, track & field sports
Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas (1834–1907) memoirist gwa nge
C. Mildred Thompson (1881–1975) historian, educator, feminist nge
Ella May Thornton (1885–1971) State librarian of Georgia
Sarah Lowe Twiggs (1839–1920) writer wikisource
June Wood Wicker (1917–1992) architect
Mother Mary Theodore Williams (1868–1931) Catholic nun woc
Margaret A. Wilson (1855–1942) founder of "Wrens Nest" memorial
Naomi Chapman Woodroof (1900–1989) agriculture scientist nge
Nell Kendall Hodgson Woodruff (1892–1968) health care gwa
Jean Elizabeth Geiger Wright (1925?–2002) land conservation gwa
Dorothy Cowser Yancy (born 1944) first black tenured professor at Georgia Tech woc
Carrie Kent, the first African-American woman mayor in Georgia history as the mayor of Walthourville, Georgia [1] [2] [3]