Caroline Sandin
Caroline Sandin was a respected civic leader and served on the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents.
Louise Erickson Sauer
Louise Erickson Sauer played in the first-ever women’s baseball league, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, for the Racine Bells and the Rockford Peaches.
Hildegarde Sell
Hildegarde Sell was one of the first international music stars and is known as one of the best cabaret singers of all time.
Donna Shalala
Donna Shalala was the first woman to head a Big Ten university and the longest-serving secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
May Shiga Hornback
Japanese American nursing educator Dr. May Shiga Hornback introduced innovative televised and telephone-based nursing instruction to students across Wisconsin.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Nobel Peace Prize winner and Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was the first female head of state of any African country.
Signe Skott Cooper
Signe Skott Cooper was a World War II army nurse and an influential nursing professor.
Lucy Smith Morris
Lucy Smith Morris was a suffragist, the first president of the Wisconsin Federation of Women’s Clubs, and an early advocate for free libraries in Wisconsin.
Lutie Eugenia Stearns
Lutie Stearns, “the Johnny Appleseed of books,” started free libraries all over Wisconsin and was an outspoken advocate for social justice.
Sheri Swokowski
Transgender advocate Sheri Swokowski, a former colonel in the U.S. Army, has worked to end discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.