The Texas Women's Hall of Fame was established in 1984 by the Governor's Commission on Women. The honorees are selected biennially from submissions from the public. The honorees must be either native Texans or a resident of Texas at the time of the nomination.[1]
Exhibit location, hours
The Texas Women's Hall of Fame Museum is located inside Blagg-Huey Library on the Denton, Texas campus of Texas Woman's University. It houses a permanent exhibit featuring the accomplishments of each of the honorees.[1]
Managing editor of McCall's Magazine, senior editor of Doubleday and Co., 1986 Women in Communications Lifetime Achievement Award. Poet, essayist, short story writer, author of children's books
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^Kessler, Kidd, Kidd, Morin (1996), pp. 190–193; "Mae Jemison". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
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^"Mamie L. McKnight". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"Jo Stewart Randel". Inductee. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
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^"Diana Natalicio". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Hawkes, Seggar (2000), pp. 167–172; "Marsha Sharp". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Ericksen (1999) pp. 197–215 "Eddy Halliday-Ebby Hallliday Realtors "We Made Service Our Priority""; "Ebby Halliday Acers". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Oglesby, Greenberg, Hall, Hill, Johnston, Easterby (1998), pp. 85, 109, 246; "Zina Garrison". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on September 19, 2011. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"Sybil Harrington". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"Dian Graves Stai". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Acosta, Winegarten (2004), p. 312; "Rosa Ramirez Guerrero". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
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^Beck, Nancy C. (January 1991). "Reviewed Work: You Meet Such Interesting People by Bess Whitehead Scott". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 94 (3). Texas State Historical Association: 501–502. JSTOR30238784."Bess Whitehead Scott". Inductee. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Woolum (1998), pp. 222–223; "Francie Larrieu Smith". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Kelley, Lynn. "Hallie Crawford Stillwell". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved January 6, 2016."Hallie Stillwell". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on September 18, 2011. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"Alumnae Achievement Awards 2010". Alumnae Awards and Fellowships. Trustees of Wellesley College. Retrieved January 6, 2016."Alvia Wardlaw". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"Martha Wong". Legislative Reference Library. State of Texas. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
^DeMoss, Dorothy D. (February 2003). "Reviewed Work: Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators, 1923–1999 by Nancy Baker Jones, Ruthe Winegarten". The Journal of Southern History. 69 (1). Southern Historical Association: 220–221. doi:10.2307/30039909. JSTOR30039909."Ernestine Glossbrenner". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Podgers, James (October 2001). "ANNUAL MEETING REPORT: Double Billing: Two key ABA entities honor former was crimes tribunal judge". ABA Journal. 87 (10). American Bar Association: 88. JSTOR27842137."Gabrielle Kirk McDonald". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Acosta, Winegarten (2004), pp. 197, 223; "Breaking Barriers Awards Recipients". USBE/HE Professional. No. Spring 1996. Career Communications Group Inc. 1996. p. 20. Retrieved January 6, 2016."Gloria G. Rodriguez". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Burns, Lisa M. (December 2009). "Reviewed Work: Barbara Bush: Presidential Matriarch by Myra G. Gutin". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 39 (4). Wiley on behalf of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress: 963–964. doi:10.1111/j.1741-5705.2009.03728.x. JSTOR41427443."Barbara Bush". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
^"Judith Craven". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Stanley, Jeanie R. "Gussie Nell Davis". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved January 6, 2016."Gussie Nell Davis". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on 28 May 2010. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
^"L. Ruth Guy". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"Terry Hershey". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Acosta, Winegarten (2004), p. 331; Morgenthaler (2004), pp. 1808–1809; "Lucia Rede Madrid". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"Executive Board". Perkins School of Theology. Southern Methodist University. Retrieved January 6, 2016."Jane Wetzel". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Jasinski (2012), p. 266; "Margaret Harper". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"Lane Murray". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on November 18, 2011. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Oglesby, Greenberg, Hall, Hill, Johnston, Easterby (1998), p. 237; "Louise Ritter". SR/Olympic Sports. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-05-15. Retrieved January 6, 2016."Louise Ritter". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on May 28, 2010. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"Bert Kruger Smith honored for work". The Alcalde. Vol. 74, no. 1. Ex-Students' Association of the University of Texas. September–October 1985. p. 55. Retrieved January 6, 2016."Bert Kruger Smith". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Ruiz, Korrol (2006), pp. 33–34"Lucy G. Acosta". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on May 11, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Grover, Doris Crow (Fall 1986). "Reviewed Works: Divine Average by Elithe Hamilton Kirkland; Love is a Wild Assault by Elithe Hamilton Kirkland; The Edge of Disrepute by Elithe Hamilton Kirkland". Western American Literature. 21 (3). University of Nebraska Press: 234–235. doi:10.1353/wal.1986.0037. JSTOR43026340. S2CID165356884.; "Elithe Hamilton Kirkland". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Oglesby, Greenberg, Hall, Hill, Johnston, Easterby (1998), pp. 185–186; "Donna Lopiano". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on April 15, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"Katie Sherrod". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"Dora Jean Strother". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"Mary Nan West". Cowgirl Hall of Fame. Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame. Retrieved January 5, 2015."Mary Nan West". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Ford (2008), pp. 39–40; "Anne Legendre Armstrong". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Williams, Emelda (November 1985). "Reviewed Work: Mary Kay on People Management by Mary Kay Ash". The Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management. 5 (2). Taylor & Francis Ltd.: 76–77. JSTOR20832410."Mary Kay Ash". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^García, Martinez-Ebers, Coronado, Navarro, Jaramillo (2008), pp. 16, 107, 108–109, 112–113, 117–123, 126, 128–129; "Alicia Chacón". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Hawkes, Seggar (2000), pp. 26–30; "Jody Conradt". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"Margaret Cousins". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
^"Wilhelmina Delco". Legislative Reference Library. State of Texas. Retrieved January 6, 2016."Wilhelmina Ruth Delco". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Schmelzer, Janet (January 1999). "Reviewed Work: Texas, Her Texas: The Life and Times of Frances Goff by Nancy Beck Young, Lewis L. Gould". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 102 (3). Texas Historical Association: 420–421. JSTOR30241661."Frances Goff". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"May Owen". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"Sally Ride Biography". Johnson Space Center. NASA. Retrieved January 6, 2016."Sally Ride". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Abigail, R. Matt. "Ada Marie DeBlan Simond". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved January 6, 2016."Ada Simond". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Ornish, Natalie. "Hermine Tobolowsky". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved January 6, 2016."Hermoine Tobolowsky". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Sutherland (2006), pp. 4–5, 127, 185, 187; "Liz Carpenter". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Cottrell, Debbie Mauldin. "Helen J. Farabee". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved January 6, 2016."Helen Farabee". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on October 18, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Acosta, Winegarten (2004), p. 331; "Maria Elena Flood". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on August 25, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"Texas Roundup". Jet. Vol. 47, no. 21. Johnson Publishing Company. February 13, 1975. p. 39. Retrieved January 6, 2016."Willie Lee Glass". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Acosta, Winegarten (2004), pp. 279, 292, 293, 295, 318, 327, 331; Ragland, Cathy (2009). "Reviewed Work: The Best of Lydia Mendoza by Chris Strachwitz, Garth Cartwright, Antonio Cuellar, Lucina Rodriquez, Haley Ausserer, Zack Salem, Juanita Salem, Gullermo Hernandez, Yolanda Zapeda". Yearbook for Traditional Music. 41. International Council for Traditional Music: 244–245. JSTOR25735498."Lydia Mendoza". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"Jenny Lind Porter". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Sapper, Neil. "Ann Richards". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved January 6, 2016."Ann Richards". Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
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^Moyers (2008), p. 140; "Christia V. Daniels Adair". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^W. D. R (October 1946). "Kate Bell Retires". The Mathematics Teacher. 39 (6). National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: 291–292. JSTOR27953125."Kate Bell". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Voss, Kimberly Wilmot (April 2007). "Vivian Castleberry: An Editor ahead of Her Time". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 110 (4). Texas State Historical Association: 514–532. doi:10.1353/swh.2007.0055. JSTOR30239532. S2CID144647560."Vivian Castleberry". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Acosta, Winegarten (2004), pp. 176, 185–186, 185, 217, 228, 232, 232, 329, 331; "Clotilde Garcia". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.; Kreneck, Thomas H. "Dr. Clotilde P. Garcia - Physician, Activist, and First Lady of Hispanic Genealogy". Mary and Jeff Bell Library. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Retrieved February 19, 2019.; Abigail, R. Matt; Martinez, Hugo. "GARCÍA, CLOTILDE PÉREZ". The Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
^"Jean Porter Hester". Inductee. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Hobby, Jr., William P. "Oveta Culp Hobby". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved January 6, 2016."Oveta Culp Hobby". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^"Hughes, Sarah Tilghman". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Federal Judicial Center."Sarah T. Hughes". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
^Curtain, Mary Ellen (May 1992). "Reaching for Power: Barbara C. Jordan and Liberals in the Texas Legislature, 1966–1972". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 108 (2). Texas State Historical Association: 210–231. JSTOR30242206."Barbara Jordan". Texas Women's Hall of Fame. TWU. Archived from the original on May 28, 2010. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
^Heller, Heller (2013), p. 331; "Amy Freeman Lee". Inductees. Texas Woman's University. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
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