Judy Greenspan is a lifelong activist, known for being one of the first out lesbian political candidates in the United States.

Velma Bell Hamilton was the first Black teacher hired in Dane County and the first president of the Madison Chapter of the NAACP.

Mary Eastwood was a founding member of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and a leader in feminist legal scholarship.

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.

Kashoua Kristy Yang is the first Hmong person to be elected without appointment as a judge in the U.S. and the first Asian American judge elected without appointment in Wisconsin.

Alma Baron was a pioneer of early children’s live television, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, and an advocate for women in business.

Esther Bubley was a prominent photographer during the golden age of photojournalism, the 1940s to the 1960s.

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.

Theodora Winton Youmans was a prominent journalist and suffragist who served as the final president of the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association.

For decades, Elizabeth Hawkes was the only practicing woman attorney in northern Wisconsin, and she was the first woman president of the Wisconsin State Colleges Board.