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Texas Women's Hall of Fame. 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]
Ashland University (BA) South Texas College of Law (LLB) Madalyn Murray O'Hair (née Mays; April 13, 1919 – September 29, 1995) [ 1 ] was an American activist supporting atheism and separation of church and state. In 1963, she founded American Atheists and served as its president until 1986, after which her son Jon Garth Murray succeeded her.
Baylor University (BA) University of Texas at Austin. Dorothy Ann Richards (née Willis; September 1, 1933 – September 13, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995. A Democrat, she first came to national attention as the Texas State Treasurer, when she gave the keynote address at the 1988 ...
Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator, [1] and politician.A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives, [2] and one of the first two African Americans elected to the U.S. House from the ...
Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson was born in Bell County, Texas. She studied at Salado College and Baylor Female College. When she was 24, she married James Edward Ferguson, a lawyer, at her father's farm near Belton in Bell County, Texas. Her nickname, "Ma", came from her initials, "M. A.", and the fact that her husband was known as "Pa ...
Molly Ivins. Mary Tyler " Molly " Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, author, and political commentator, known for her humorous and insightful writing, which often used satire and wit to critique political figures and policies. Born in California and raised in Texas, Ivins attended Smith College and ...
Jovita Idar Vivero (September 7, 1885 – June 15, 1946) was an American journalist, teacher, political activist, and civil rights worker who championed the cause of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants. [ 2 ][ 3 ] Against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, which lasted a decade from 1910 through 1920, she worked for a series of ...
Emma K. Boone (1918): [ 183 ] First female lawyer in Lubbock County, Texas. Pat Moore (1949): [ 184 ] First female lawyer elected to public office in Lubbock County, Texas (upon becoming a Judge of Lubbock County Court at Law, Number 2 in Lubbock, Texas; 1957). She is also the first female appointed as a Judge of the 72nd District Court.