Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore was the first African American from the state of Wisconsin to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Golda Meir
Golda Meir was a teacher and organizer in Milwaukee before becoming Israel's first female prime minister in 1969.
Katharine Lyall
Katharine Lyall was the first woman president of the University of Wisconsin System.
Patricia “Patty” Loew
Patricia "Patty" Loew is a celebrated journalist, filmmaker, and educator about Native Americans in Wisconsin.
Estella Leopold
Estella Leopold was a paleobotanist and conservationist who conducted ground-breaking research on fossilized pollen.
Gerda Lerner
University of Wisconsin scholar Gerda Lerner founded the academic field of women's history.
Barbara Lawton
Barbara Lawton, forty-third lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, was the first woman to be elected to that position.
April Ulring Larson
Elected by the La Crosse Area Synod in 1992, Rev. April Ulring Larson became the first female Lutheran bishop in North America and the second in the world.
Ellen Kort
Ellen Kort was Wisconsin’s first poet laureate.
bell hooks
Best known for her work on gender, race, and class, University of Wisconsin graduate bell hooks was a prolific writer, speaker, and scholar.