Louisiana Center for Women in Government and Business Hall of Fame

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The Louisiana Center for Women in Government and Business Hall of Fame recognizes women natives or residents of the U.S. state of Louisiana for their significant achievements or statewide contributions. Among the inductees are men whose contributions to supporting strong women were deemed significant. The Center is headquartered at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux and was established in 1991 to promote and encourage government and public service leadership of women. The first Hall of Fame inductions occurred in March 1994 during Women's History Month. [1]

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Inductees

Louisiana Center for Women in Government and Business Hall of Fame
NameImageBirth–DeathYearArea of achievementRef(s)
Lloyd "Chip" Badeaux 2017Men who Support women [2] [3]
Marguerite Knight 2017Senior Vice President Morgan Stanley [2] [4]
Mary Landrieu 2017United States Senator [2] [5]
Yvonne LaFleur 2017Entrepreneur [2]
Genny May 2017United States Marshall [2] [6]
Elaine Musso 2017Leadership Council activist [2]
Eva Shanklin 2017Louisiana State WIN Coordinator for NAACP, President Emeritus, Lafourche Chapter [2]
Kim Sport 2017Former Executive Counsel to Chief Justice [2]
Luci Sposito 2017Lafourche Parish Council Vice Chair [2]
Karen St. Germain 2017 Louisiana House of Representatives [2]
Raja Talluri 2017Physician (Men Who Support Women) [2]
Stephanie Burks 2015Entrepreneurship, co-owner and co-founder of RYCARS Construction, LLC[ citation needed ]
Leah Chase LeahChaseAp08Crop.jpg (b. 1923)2015Lifetime Achievement Award, Owner of Dooky Chase's restaurant in New Orleans [7]
Jackie Clarkson Satchmo2012 Clarkson Armstrong Park.jpg (b. 1936)2015Award for Public Service, New Orleans City Council [8]
Felicia Frederick 2015Manager of State Governmental Affairs for Chevron, Government, Policy, and Public Affairs
Russ Herman 2015Men Who Support Strong Women; Senior Partner, Herman, Herman & Katz Law Firm; philanthropic support of and work for The Center
Christian LeBlanc Christian LeBlanc - Monte-Carlo Television Festival.JPG (b. 1958)2015Men Who Support Strong Women, support of numerous charities including The Center, Bayou Junior Woman's Club and The Lafourche Commission on Women
Leslie Marsh 2015Outstanding Activists for The Center for Women, Advisory Board for The Center and The Son of a Saint. Donor Relations Officer, Tulane University
Nell Nolan 2015Journalist for The Advocate , Blue Ribbon Award for Media
Karen Puckett 2015President of Global Markets for CenturyLink
Brandie Toups 2015Outstanding Activists for The Center for Women, Louisiana Girls Leadership Academy
Vanessa Whipple-Chiefe 2015Chief Judge, Louisiana's First Circuit Court of Appeal [9]
Donnell Zeringue 2015Outstanding Activists for The Center for Women, chair of the Public Service Project for The Center's Louisiana Girls Leadership Academy. Lafourche Commission on Women, National Leaders Summit and The Louisiana Leaders Conference
Maurice Durbin 2013Lobbyist for women's rights in Louisiana
Kay Katz (b. 1938)2013Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and former Louisiana Republican National Committeewoman
Demetric Mercadel 2013Senior Associate Analyst for Entergy New Orleans, Inc., [10]
Willie Mount Mayor Willie Mount.jpg (b. 1949)2013Member of the Louisiana State Senate from 2000 to 2012
Lena Torris 2013Clerk of Court for St. Bernard Parish
Elizabeth Ratcliff Dent 2012president of Financial and Management Services [11]
Kathleen Mix Diamond 2012Vice Chancellor for Workforce Development and Education at Delgado Community College [11]
Andie Bollinger Giardina 2012longtime supporter of Women's Night Out, a major fundraiser for women student-athletes [11]
Rose Hudson 2012Chief Executive Officer, Louisiana Lottery [11]
Alice Pecararo 2011Council for a Better Louisiana, Louisiana State Board of Commerce and Industry and the Louisiana Endowment of Humanities. [12]
Adele Ransom 2011first woman to have been elected to the Ouachita Police Jury. She is a member of the Ouachita Correctional Center Advisory Board and the Ouachita Board of Commissioners [12]
Jean Rice 2011The Louisiana Center for Women and Government [12]
Suzanne Terrell (b. 1954)2011Former Louisiana Elections Commissioner, Senior advisor and director of outreach for the Economic Development Administration in the United States Department of Commerce under President George W. Bush; lost 2002 Senate election to Mary Landrieu. [12]
Jean Armstrong 2010Co-founder of the Louisiana Voting Rights Network and president of League of Women Voters. [13]
Betty Scott Cummins 2010director for both Winnsboro State Bank and the Scott Companies [13]
Faith Peperone 2010Founder Metropolitan Republican Women's Club [13]
Leslie Robichaux Suazo 2010director of Coastal Restoration and Preservation for Terrebonne Parish and community relations coordinator for the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program. [13]
Rosemary Ewing 2009First female board chairman of Louisiana United Methodist Children and Family Services, Inc. [14]
Phyllis Mayo 2009First woman elected to the Alexandria City Council; executive committees of the Louisiana Democratic Party. Special assistant to the governor on women's policy, organizing the first Gathering of Louisiana Women Leaders [15]
Anne Milling 2009Past president of the Junior League of New Orleans Inc. and past chair of the Loyola University Board of Trustees. [16]
LilyB Moskal 2009(*Note: the spelling of LilyB is not a typo), Founder of Success Seminars, motivational workshops [17]
Kitty DeGree (1922-2012)2008Philanthropist who made her money in real estate, Kitty DeGree Breast Health Center at St. Francis Medical Center and Kitty Degree School of Nursing at the University of Louisiana at Monroe [18]
Sandy Rosenthal 2008Civic organizer who founded Levees.org/ in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina [19]
Dolores Spikes (b. 1936)2008President Southern University and A&M College, president University of Maryland Eastern Shore [20]
Phyllis Taylor 2008Philanthropist, chairman and chief executive officer Taylor EnergyCompany [18]
Irma Muse Dixon (b. 1952)2007First African-American elected to the Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) [21]
Mary Ann Lemmon (b. 1941)2007 United States federal judge appointed by Bill Clinton July 25, 1966; Judge, Louisiana District Court, Twenty-ninth Judicial District, 1982–1996; Judge pro tempore, Court of Appeal, First Circuit, Louisiana, 1990 [22]
Melinda Schwegmann (b. 1946)2007First woman Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana [23]
Pinkie Wilkerson (1948–2000)2007Former Louisiana State Representative from District 11 (Claiborne and parts of Bienville, Lincoln, and Union parishes) [24]
Mari Ann Fowler (b. 1937)2006Deceased second wife of Jerry Fowler, abducted from a parking lot in Port Allen, Louisiana on Christmas Eve 2002 while Jerry Fowler was incarcerated for kickbacks and income tax evasion. State District Judge Janice Clark declared her legally dead, May 2004. [25]
Bunnatine H. Greenhouse 2006Top procurement official at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who blew the whistle on Halliburton contracts [26]
Ethel N. Knobloch 2006Former City Councilwoman, Thibodaux [27]
Verna S. Landrieu 2006Matriarch of Louisiana's Landrieu's family; mother of New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu and United States Senator Mary Landrieu [28]
Marilyn B. Kilgen 2005Professor of Biological Sciences [29]
Carol R. LeBlanc 2005Member of the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana [30]
Martha A. Madden 2005Consultant and president of Madden Associates, LLC, former Special Assistant at the U.S. Department of Energy and is the former Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, served on two Homeland Security Task Forces at the Center for Strategic & International Studies [31]
Barbara Norton 2005Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives [32]
Laura Badeaux 2004Director, Louisiana Center for Women and Government at Nicholls State University [33]
Velma Callais-Rogers 2004
Judy Ewell Day 2003Lobbyist-consultant, Woman's Hospital/Woman's Health Foundation [34]
Roberta Madden (b. 1936)2003Writer, book editor, first director of the Baton Rouge Consumer Protection Center. Co-founder of the Baton Rouge chapter of the National Organization for Women. Served on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Louisiana State Advisory Committee. Baton Rouge Council of Human Relations, Association of American University Women, Louisiana Women's Political Caucus, Women's Equality Alliance League, Baton Rouge Mayor-President's Commission on the Needs of Women. [35]
Darlene L. Pellegrin 2003
Margaret Gamble Pereboom (1928–2008)2003Psychologist, chair Louisiana Women in Politics, Louisiana Health Care Campaign [36]
Jo Ann Cefalu Blanchard 2002Member Historic District Commission, Morgan City [37]
Alice Foster 2002Former First Lady of Louisiana, wife of former Governor Murphy J. Foster, Jr., resides at Oaklawn Manor; serves on the Executive Board of the Sunshine Foundation in Baton Rouge, which builds self-esteem among Kindergarten children [38]
Sibal Suarez Holt 2002S. Holt Construction, former president of the Louisiana AFL-CIO. [39]
Norma Jane Sabiston 2002Political consultant [40]
Lois D. Breaux 2001
Joanne Ferriot 2001Member of Louisiana Board of Ethics, retired administrator of Nicholls State University [41]
Margaret D. Montgomery-Richard 2001Co-owner DMM & Associates [42]
Cecile B. Tauzin 2001Board of Trustees, Ford Theatre, Washington D.C. [43]
Eleanora Angelo 2000
Eileen R. Armstrong (1917–2010)2000First female school board president in East Baton Rouge Parish, active in many organizations, including the Democratic Party [44]
Constance A. Koury 2000Lawyer, first female executive council to the Governor of Louisiana; first female Assistant Attorney General in Louisiana. General council, Louisiana Board of Regents. Executive Director, Louisiana Association for Justice [45]
Barbara Mansfield 2000Former president National Federation of Democratic Women [46]
Beth Rickey (1956–2009)2000 Republican political activist from Louisiana who exposed the neo-Nazi connections of former State Representative David Duke, who ran for the U.S. Senate and for governor of Louisiana [47]
Marilyn Thayer (b. circa 1929)2000Republican Party activist, president of the National Federation of Republican Women, 1996-1997; state co-chair, Reagan-Bush Committee [48]
Wilhelmina Bernard Armour 1999
Charlotte A. Bollinger 1999Executive Vice President, Bollinger Shipyards, Inc.; member of numerous civic organizations; member of the Board of Regents for the State of Louisiana [49]
Beth Courtney Beth Courtney of LPB.jpg (b. 1945)1999President and CEO of Louisiana Public Broadcasting [50]
Sybil Haydel Morial 1999Retired Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Louisiana Board of Directors; founder of the Louisiana League of Good Government, active in women's rights and civil rights [51]
Mary Ellen Wisham (1916–2012)1999Undersecretary of Management and Finance for the Louisiana Department of Labor [52]
Betsy Cheramie Ayo (d. 1997)1998Namesake of Betsy Cheramie Ayo Hal at Nicholls University; active in civic organizations, wife of Nicholls State University president Donald Ayo [53]
Sally Clausen (b. 1945)1998Former Louisiana Commissioner of Higher Education; also served as Adjunct Professor for Louisiana State University, Deputy Commissioner of Administration, Commissioner of Higher Education, Secretary of Education for the Office of the Governor, and President of Southeastern Louisiana University. [54]
Linda Talbert 1998Nurse [55]
Iris Kelso (1926–2003)1997Journalist in New Orleans [56]
Myrtle Pickering deceased1997
Doris B. Reggie 1997Civic-engaged wife of Edmund Reggie; second mother-in-law of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat activist [57]
Marie Louise Wilcox Snellings (1912–1994)1997 Tulane University Board of Administrators; mother-in-law of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu
Gayle F. Truly 1997Member of the Louisiana Violent Crime and Homicide Task Force [58]
C. Maxine Holtry Daniels 1996Martin Luther King Executive Committee, Southern Christian Leadership Conference [59]
Betty Green Heitman (1930–1994)1996Co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, 1983-1987; former president of the National Federation of Republican Women [60]
Kathy M. Vick (1939–2011)1996Democratic Party worker who called roll-call votes at national conventions [61]
Lillian W. Walker (b. 1923)1996Former Louisiana State Representative from East Baton Rouge Parish 1968–1972 [62]
Dorothy H. Wallace deceased1996
Lucille May Grace (1900–1957)1995Louisiana Register of the State Land Office, 1932, first woman to attain statewide elected office in Louisiana [63]
Maggie Bell Atkins Hodges (1922–1986)1995Republican Party activist during Eisenhower administration [64]
Eddie D. Brown Jones 1995
Ellen Bryan Moore (1912–1999)1995Louisiana Register of State Lands
Ollie Tucker Osborne (1911–1994)1995Real estate business woman, 1973 Louisiana League of Women Voters' official observer of the state constitutional convention, women's rights activist [65]
Lindy Boggs Corinne Lindy Boggs.jpg (1916–2013)1994 United States House of Representatives; United States Ambassador to the Holy See [66]
Fran Bussie 1994Democratic Party activist; Board of Directors Arthritis Association of Louisiana; second wife and widow of AFL-CIO state president Victor Bussie [67]
Pat Evans 1994Director of the International Project for Nonprofit Leadership (IPNL) at the University of New Orleans [68]
Virginia "Ginny" Martinez (1922–1992)1994Louisiana Republican Party National Committeewoman; Louisiana Federation of Republican Women created the Ginny Martinez Scholarship in her honor. [69]
Corinne D. Maybuce deceased1994Regional Director Delta Sigma Theta 1955–58, 1970–72 [70]
Mary Evelyn Parker (1920–2015)1994First woman to have held the position Louisiana State Treasurer [71]
Doris Lindsey Holland Rhodes (1909–1997)1994First woman to serve in Louisiana legislature; first as state senator and then as state representative from St. Helena Parish [72]
Rupert F. Richardson (1930–2008)1994Former national president of NAACP [73]
Virginia Shehee (1923-2015)1994 Louisiana State Senator for District 38 (Caddo and De Soto parishes), 1976-1980 [74]

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