Name
|
Image
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Birth–Death
|
Year
|
Area of achievement
|
Ref(s)
|
Mo Anderson
|
|
(b. 1937)
|
2023
|
|
[4]
|
Patricia Fennell
|
|
|
2023
|
|
[4]
|
Ann Felton Gilliland
|
|
|
2023
|
|
[4]
|
Donna Grabow
|
|
(b. 1945)
|
2023
|
|
[4]
|
Kim Garrett-Funk
|
|
|
2023
|
|
[4]
|
Cathy Keating
|
|
(b. 1950)
|
2023
|
Philanthropist, First Lady of the State of Oklahoma
|
[4]
|
Freddye Harper Williams
|
|
(1917–2001)
|
2023
|
|
[4]
|
Sue Ann Arnall
|
|
(b. 1956)
|
2022
|
|
[5]
|
Carleen Burger
|
|
(b. 1951)
|
2022
|
|
[5]
|
Janice Dobbs
|
|
|
2022
|
|
[5]
|
Wanda Jackson
|
|
(b. 1937)
|
2022
|
|
[5]
|
Roseline Nsikak
|
|
|
2022
|
|
[5]
|
Kayse Shrum
|
|
(b. 1972)
|
2022
|
|
[5]
|
Betty McElderry
|
|
(1939–2019)
|
2022
|
|
[5]
|
Anna Belle Wiedemann
|
|
(b. 1931)
|
2022
|
|
[5]
|
Helen Holmes
|
|
(1915–1997)
|
2019
|
Journalist, historian, Women's Army Corps officer
|
[6]
|
Noma Gurich
|
|
(b. 1952)
|
2019
|
Jurist
|
[6]
|
Ollie Starr
|
|
(b. 1941)
|
2019
|
|
[6]
|
Judy Love
|
|
(b. 1937)
|
2019
|
Philanthropist
|
[6]
|
Susan Chambers
|
|
|
2018
|
OB/GYN founding partner of Lakeside Women's Hospital in Oklahoma City
|
[7]
|
Jane Anne Jayroe
|
|
(b. 1946)
|
2018
|
Broadcaster, author, Miss Oklahoma, Miss America
|
[7]
|
Joan Gilmore
|
|
(1927–2022)
|
2018
|
Journalist
|
[7]
|
Willa Johnson
|
|
(1939–2022)
|
2018
|
City and county office holder
|
[7]
|
Kay Rhoads
|
|
|
2018
|
Principal Chief of the Sac and Fox Nation
|
[7]
|
Linda Cavanaugh
|
|
(b. 1950)
|
2017
|
Journalist
|
[8]
|
Glenda Love
|
|
|
2017
|
Executive director of the Ronald McDonald House in Tulsa
|
[8]
|
Pat Potts
|
|
|
2017
|
First woman to serve as President of the Oklahoma City School Board
|
[8]
|
Meg Salyer
|
|
|
2017
|
Volunteerism
|
[8]
|
Rhonda Walters
|
|
|
2017
|
First Lady of the State of Oklahoma; Helped create the Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women
|
[8]
|
Edith Kinney Gaylord
|
|
(1916– 2001)
|
2017
|
Journalist
|
[8]
|
LaDonna Harris
|
|
(b. 1931)
|
2015
|
Comanche activist
|
[9]
|
Mary Mélon-Tully
|
|
|
2015
|
Newspaper publisher; The Foundation for Oklahoma City Public Schools
|
[10]
|
Marion Paden
|
|
|
2015
|
Oklahoma Community City College
|
[10]
|
Thelma Parks
|
|
(1923–2019)
|
2015
|
Civil rights
|
[10]
|
Ramona Paul
|
|
(1936–2013)
|
2015
|
Education
|
[10]
|
Patty Roloff
|
|
|
2015
|
Owner Oklahoma City 89ers
|
[10]
|
Avis Scaramucci
|
|
|
2015
|
Entrepreneur
|
[10]
|
Ida Blackburn
|
|
(1929–2016)
|
2013
|
Television personality, public relations
|
[11]
|
Elaine Dodd
|
|
|
2013
|
Law enforcement
|
[11]
|
Lou Kerr
|
|
(1937–2024)
|
2013
|
Businesswoman
|
[11]
|
Terri Watkins
|
|
(b. 1954)
|
2013
|
Investigative journalist
|
[11]
|
Nancy Miller
|
|
|
2013
|
Television producer
|
[11]
|
Linda Haneborg
|
|
|
2013
|
Political activist, businesswoman
|
[11]
|
Laura Boyd
|
|
(b. 1949)
|
2011
|
Oklahoma state representative; first woman nominee for Governor of Oklahoma
|
[12]
|
Chloe Brown
|
|
(b. 1951)
|
2011
|
Founded The Chloe House transition home for women
|
[12]
|
Joy Culbreath
|
|
(b. 1939)
|
2011
|
Executive Director of all Choctaw Nation Education Service
|
[12]
|
Marcia Mitchell
|
|
|
2011
|
Founded The Little Light House faith-based mission to assist children with a wide range of developmental disabilities including autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy
|
[12]
|
Ardina Moore
|
|
(1930–2022)
|
2011
|
Preservationist for the Quapaw language
|
[12]
|
Cindy Ross
|
|
(b. 1950)
|
2011
|
First female president of Cameron University
|
[12]
|
Kathy Taylor
|
|
(b. 1955)
|
2011
|
Mayor of Tulsa
|
[12]
|
Helen Harrod Thompson
|
|
(b. 1931)
|
2011
|
Co-creator of the Family Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence in Ardmore
|
[12]
|
Rita Aragon
|
|
(b. 1947)
|
2009
|
United States Air National Guard two-star general
|
[13]
|
Suzanne Edmondson
|
|
(b. 1945)
|
2009
|
Founder of Friends of Eddie Warrior (FEW) Foundation
|
[14]
|
Edna Hennessee
|
|
(1919–2011)
|
2009
|
Entrepreneur
|
[15]
|
Kim Henry
|
|
|
2009
|
First Lady of the State of Oklahoma
|
[14]
|
Mirabeau Lamar Looney
|
|
(1871–1935)
|
2009
|
First woman member of the Oklahoma Senate
|
[16]
|
Susan Savage
|
|
(b. 1952)
|
2009
|
First woman mayor of Tulsa
|
[14]
|
Carolyn Whitener
|
|
(b. 1941)
|
2009
|
Filed 1970s sexual discrimination lawsuit Craig v. Boren
|
[14]
|
Sherri Coale
|
|
(b. 1965)
|
2007
|
Head coach of the University of Oklahoma Sooners
|
[14]
|
Ginny Creveling
|
|
(b. 1946)
|
2007
|
Community activist
|
[14]
|
Joe Anna Hibler
|
|
(b. 1939)
|
2007
|
First woman president of Southwestern Oklahoma State University
|
[14]
|
Maxine Horner
|
|
(1933–2021)
|
2007
|
One of the first African American women to serve in the Oklahoma State Senate
|
[14]
|
Kay Martin
|
|
|
2007
|
Second female superintendent to lead an Oklahoma technology center
|
[14]
|
Terry Neese
|
|
(b. 1947)
|
2007
|
Entrepreneur, public policy strategist, women's equality advocate
|
[14]
|
Claudia Tarrington
|
|
(1944–2003)
|
2007
|
Political consultant
|
[14]
|
Carolyn Thompson Taylor
|
|
(b. 1957)
|
2007
|
State representative, associate professor of political science at Rogers State University
|
[14]
|
Della Warrior
|
|
(b. 1946)
|
2007
|
First and only woman to date to serve as the chairperson and chief executive officer for the Otoe-Missouria Tribe
|
[14]
|
Wanda L. Bass
|
|
(1927–2008)
|
2005
|
Philanthropist
|
[14]
|
Nancy Coats-Ashley
|
|
(b. 1939)
|
2005
|
District Court Judge for Oklahoma County
|
[14]
|
Mary Fallin
|
|
(b. 1954)
|
2005
|
Governor of Oklahoma
|
[17]
|
Bessie S. McColgin
|
|
(1875–1972)
|
2005
|
First woman elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives
|
[18]
|
Jeanine Rhea
|
|
(b. 1938)
|
2005
|
Professor Emeritus in the Department of Management at Oklahoma State University
|
[14]
|
Stephanie Kulp Seymour
|
|
(b. 1940)
|
2005
|
First female Chief Judge of the Tenth Circuit
|
[14]
|
Esther Houser
|
|
(b. 1950)
|
2003
|
State Long-Term Care Ombudsman in the Aging Services Division of the Department of Human Services
|
[14]
|
Vicki Miles-LaGrange
|
|
(b. 1953)
|
2003
|
First woman U.S. Attorney in Oklahoma
|
[19]
|
Linda Morrissey
|
|
(b. 1953)
|
2003
|
Tulsa County District Judge
|
[14]
|
Lynn Schusterman
|
|
(b. 1939)
|
2003
|
Philanthropist, chair emerita of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies
|
[14]
|
Donna Shirley
|
|
(b. 1941)
|
2003
|
Aerospace engineer, head of the Mars Exploration Program in 1994
|
[20]
|
Jari Askins
|
|
(b. 1953)
|
2001
|
Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma
|
[21]
|
Shirley Bellmon
|
|
(1927–2000)
|
2001
|
First Lady of the State of Oklahoma
|
[14]
|
Dorothy Moses DeWitty
|
|
(1926–2012)
|
2001
|
First African-American woman president of the League of Women Voters
|
[14]
|
Sandy Garrett
|
|
(b. 1943)
|
2001
|
First woman elected Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction
|
[14]
|
Lynn Jones
|
|
(b. 1949)
|
2001
|
Police woman, developed the first Officers’ Street Survival course in Oklahoma
|
[14]
|
Yvonne Kauger
|
|
(b. 1937)
|
2001
|
Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court 1997-1998
|
[22]
|
Jill Zink Tarbel
|
|
(1924–2009)
|
2001
|
Advocate for disabled persons, trustee for the University of Tulsa
|
[14]
|
Dana Tiger
|
|
(b. 1961)
|
2001
|
Native American artist
|
[14]
|
Isabel Keith Baker
|
|
(1929–2019)
|
1997
|
Oklahoma State University Board of Regents
|
[14]
|
Jessie Thatcher Bost
|
|
(1875–1963)
|
1997
|
First woman to graduate from a university in Oklahoma
|
[23]
|
Norma Eagleton
|
|
(b. 1934)
|
1997
|
Finance and Revenue Commissioner; Board of Regents for Rogers State College
|
[14]
|
Kay Goebel
|
|
(b. 1929)
|
1997
|
Community activist
|
[14]
|
Ruth Hardman
|
|
(1914–2005)
|
1997
|
Philanthropist
|
[14]
|
Beverly Horse
|
|
(1931–2010)
|
1997
|
Human rights activist
|
[14][24]
|
Mazola McKerson
|
|
(1921–2014)
|
1997
|
First African-American and first female to serve on the Ardmore City Council; first African-American female mayor of Ardmore; first chair of the Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women
|
[14]
|
Penny Williams
|
|
(1937–2018)
|
1997
|
State legislator
|
[14]
|
Betty Boyd
|
|
(1924–2011)
|
1996
|
Pioneer woman journalist
|
[14]
|
Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher
|
|
(1924–1995)
|
1996
|
Civil rights activist
|
[25]
|
Lela Foreman
|
|
(1930–2015)
|
1996
|
Civil rights activist
|
[14][26]
|
Sandy Ingraham
|
|
(b. 1947)
|
1996
|
Child Advocate of the Decade
|
[14]
|
Lorena Males
|
|
(1909–2006)
|
1996
|
Community activist
|
[14]
|
Bernice Shedrick
|
|
(b. 1940)
|
1996
|
Attorney, judge, state legislator
|
[14]
|
Valree Fletcher Wynn
|
|
(1922–2021)
|
1996
|
Professor Emeritus at Cameron University; first African American to teach at Lawton High School, to teach at Cameron University, and to serve on the Board of Regents of Oklahoma Colleges.
|
[14]
|
Nancy Feldman
|
|
(1922–2014)
|
1995
|
Civil rights activist
|
[14]
|
Barbara J. Gardner-Anderson
|
|
(b. 1949)
|
1995
|
First woman to chair the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce
|
[14]
|
Ruthe Blalock Jones
|
|
(b. 1939)
|
1995
|
Delaware-Shawnee Native American artist and Director Emeritus and associate professor of art at Bacone College
|
[27]
|
Mona Salyer Lambird
|
|
(1938–1999)
|
1995
|
First woman president of the Oklahoma Bar Association and the first woman elected to the Board of Governors of the Oklahoma Bar Association
|
[14]
|
Gloria Grace Langdon
|
|
(1927–2003)
|
1995
|
Tonkawa News publisher
|
[14]
|
Bernice Mitchell
|
|
(1939–2021)
|
1995
|
First African American woman to be elected as County Commissioner in Payne County, Oklahoma
|
[14]
|
Donna Nigh
|
|
(b. 1933)
|
1995
|
First Lady of the State of Oklahoma
|
[14]
|
Marie C. Cox
|
|
(1920–2005)
|
1993
|
Founded the North American Indian Women's Association
|
[14]
|
Anita Hill
|
|
(b. 1956)
|
1993
|
Attorney and academic
|
[28]
|
Moscelyne Larkin
|
|
(1925–2012)
|
1993
|
Native American ballerina
|
[29]
|
Jacqulyn Longacre
|
|
(b. 1932)
|
1993
|
Executive Director of Planned Parenthood
|
[14]
|
Shannon Lucid
|
|
(b. 1943)
|
1993
|
Biochemist, astronaut
|
[30]
|
Clara Luper
|
|
(1923–2011)
|
1993
|
Civic leader, civil rights activist
|
[31]
|
Opaline Deveraux Wadkins
|
|
(1912–2000)
|
1993
|
First African American nurse to earn a master's degree from the University of Oklahoma
|
[14]
|
Pat Woodrum
|
|
(b. 1941)
|
1993
|
Executive Director of the Tulsa City-County Library System
|
[14]
|
Sara Ruth Cohen
|
|
(1920–1986)
|
1986
|
Activist for the arts in the Jewish community
|
[14]
|
Vinita Cravens
|
|
(1909–1994)
|
1986
|
Stage productions promoter
|
[14]
|
Rubye Hibler Hall
|
|
(1912–2003)
|
1986
|
First African-American appointed to the State Regents for Higher Education
|
[14]
|
Elizabeth Ann McCurdy Holmes
|
|
(1927–1983)
|
1986
|
Continuing Education and Public Service at the University of Oklahoma
|
[14]
|
Grace Elizabeth Hudlin
|
|
(1908–1995)
|
1986
|
Political activist and first woman to head an electric cooperative in Oklahoma
|
[14]
|
Wilma Mankiller
|
|
(1945–2010)
|
1986
|
First woman elected chief of the Cherokees
|
[32]
|
Edna Mae Phelps
|
|
(1920–2001)
|
1986
|
First woman to serve on the Oklahoma State Election Board
|
[14]
|
Evelyn La Rue Pittman
|
|
(1910–1992)
|
1986
|
Author, composer, choral director, producer, and music educator
|
[14]
|
Mae Boren Axton
|
|
(1914–1997)
|
1985
|
The woman who wrote Heartbreak Hotel; songwriter, promoter, mother of Hoyt Axton
|
[33]
|
June Tompkins Benson
|
|
(1915–1981)
|
1985
|
First woman mayor in Oklahoma
|
[14]
|
Pam Olson
|
|
(b. 1949)
|
1985
|
News journalist, CNN White House correspondent
|
[34]
|
Betty Durham Price
|
|
(1931–2023)
|
1985
|
Visual arts preservationist
|
[14]
|
Bertha Frank Teague
|
|
(1898–1991)
|
1985
|
Basketball coach; She established the first girls' basketball clinic in the Southwest
|
[35]
|
Angie Debo
|
|
(1890–1988)
|
1984
|
Historian who focused on Native Americans
|
[36]
|
Jeane Kirkpatrick
|
|
(1926–2006)
|
1984
|
Professor, diplomat, political activist
|
[37]
|
Jewell Russell Mann
|
|
(1903–1987)
|
1984
|
Feminist activist who was instrumental in amending the state constitution to allow women to hold elective office in Oklahoma
|
[14]
|
Zella J. Patterson
|
|
(1909–1986)
|
1984
|
Head of the Home Economics Department at Langston University
|
[14]
|
Zelia N. Breaux
|
|
(1880–1956)
|
1983
|
Organized the first music department at Oklahoma's Langston University and the school's first orchestra
|
[14]
|
Kate Frank
|
|
(1890–1982)
|
1983
|
First woman president of the Oklahoma Education Association
|
[14]
|
Leona Mitchell
|
|
(b. 1949)
|
1983
|
African-American and Chickasaw operatic soprano
|
[38]
|
Jean Pitts
|
|
(b. 1945)
|
1983
|
Cardiovascular surgeon and medical researcher
|
[14]
|
Juanita Stout
|
|
(1919–1998)
|
1983
|
First African-American woman elected to any judgeship in the United States and the first to serve on the Supreme Court of any state
|
[14]
|
Alma Wilson
|
|
(1917–1999)
|
1983
|
First woman to serve on the Oklahoma Supreme Court and its first woman as chief justice,
|
[39]
|
Hannah Diggs Atkins
|
|
(1923–2010)
|
1982
|
First African-American woman elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives (1968–1980)
|
[40]
|
Kate Barnard
|
|
(1875–1930)
|
1982
|
First woman elected to statewide office by a male-only electorate
|
[41]
|
June Brooks
|
|
(1924–2010)
|
1982
|
Oil lobbyist
|
[42]
|
Gloria Stewart Farley
|
|
(1916–2006)
|
1982
|
Author, historian
|
[14]
|
Aloysius Larch-Miller
|
|
(1886–1920)
|
1982
|
Suffragist
|
[14]
|
Susan Ryan Peters
|
|
(1873–1965)
|
1982
|
Founded the Kiowa Indian School of Art
|
[14]
|
Christine Salmon
|
|
(1916–1985)
|
1982
|
Architect
|
[14]
|
Edyth Thomas Wallace
|
|
(1880–1975)
|
1982
|
Newspaper columnist and radio disc jockey
|
[14]
|