| 2004 |
|
Bishop Barbara Harris,
first female bishop of the Episcopal Church |
2003 |
Loretta C. Ford, founding
pediatric nurse practitioner |
2001 |
Madeleine K. Albright,
64th United States secretary of state |
| 1998 |
Billie Jean King, professional
tennis legend and a pioneer and advocate for women’s equity
in athletics |
| 1996 |
|
Wilma Mankiller, Chief of the Cherokee
Nation |
| 1993 |
|
Barbara Jordan, U.S. congresswoman |
| 1991 |
|
Margaret Chase Smith, United States
senator |
| 1991 |
|
Antonia C. Novello, surgeon general |
| 1988 |
|
Barbara Aronstein Black, dean of the Columbia
University Law School |
| 1985 |
|
Cicely Saunders, founder of the international
hospice movement |
| 1985 |
|
Sandra Day O'Connor, associate justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States |
| 1984 |
|
Hanna Holborn Gray, president of the University of Chicago |
| 1982 |
|
Agnes George de Mille, choreographer |
| 1980 |
|
Mary D. Leakey, anthropologist |
| 1977 |
|
Mary S. Calderone, founder of the Sex Information and Education
Council of the United States |
| 1975 |
|
Antonia Brico, symphony conductor |
| 1974 |
|
Francis Keller Harding, physician and family planning advocate |
| 1973 |
|
Judith Graham Pool, professor of medicine |
| 1972 |
|
Marian Anderson, contralto; U.S. delegate to the United Nations
|
| 1972 |
|
Mary Lasker, philanthropist |
| 1971 |
|
Mina Rees, president emerita, Graduate Division, City University
of New York |
| 1970 |
|
Helen Brooke Taussig, pediatric cardiologist, professor of medicine |
| 1969 |
|
Georigiana Sibley, civic leader, Rochester, New York |
| 1968 |
|
Constance Baker Motley, U.S. district court judge, New York City |
| 1967 |
|
Catharine Macfarlane, physician, pioneer in the use of radium to
treat cancer |
| 1966 |
|
Fe del Mundo, physician; co-founder, Children's Medical Center of
the Phillipines |
| 1965 |
|
Annette LeMeitour-Kaplan, editor and founder, International Journal
of Health Education |
| 1964 |
|
Margaret Mead, anthropologist and author |
| 1963 |
|
Marty Mann, founder and executive director of the National Council
on Alcoholism |
| 1962 |
|
Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, 1933-45 |
| 1961 |
|
Leona Baumgartner, commissioner, New York City Department of Health |
| 1960 |
|
Miki Sawada, founder, Elizabeth Saunders Home, Oiso, Japan |
| 1959 |
|
Elizabeth Luce Moore, educator and social worker |
| 1958 |
|
Gwendolyn Grant Mellon, co-founder, Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, Haiti |
