past winners

The YWCA has been recognizing the achievements of Richmond's Outstanding Women for over thirty years. Below is a list of all of our honorees. Thank you for all your efforts and contributions to our community.

1980

Alma Barlow
Pat Bell, Esq.
Martha Bell Conway
Marii Hasewega
Frances Lambert
Dr. Carolyn McCue

1981

Janet Ballard
Phyllis Conklin
Dr. Dorothy Cowling
Virginia Hackney
Dr. Jean Harris
Dr. Lois Harrison-Jones
Marie Goodman Hunter
Sara Little, Ph.D.
Dr. Nancy McWilliams
Cornelia Overton

1982

Madge Bush
Rev. Marjorie Lee Bailey
Sylvia Clute, Esq.
Nancy Copal
Willie Dell
Judy Goldberg
Perzelia P. Goodwin
Joanne LeVay
Zipporah Medford
Dr. Paige S. Morahan
Marie Price

1983

Nina Abady
Sally Camp
Audrey Dixon
Norma Goode, Ph.D.
Catherine Johnson
Rabbi Beverly Lerner
Claudette B. McDaniel
Johanna Schuchert
Dr. Myra Williams-Thornton
Barbara Wurtzel, Ph.D.

1984

Rev. Yvonne Jones Bibbs
Margaret Watkins Clay
Elsie Satterwhite Elmore
Melba Gibbs
Dr. Grace Edmondson Harris
Dr. Suzanne B. Hirt
Elizabeth Herrink House
Anne P. Lane
Jean Roland-Pender
Bessida Cauthorne White

1985

Carolyn Adams
Norma Jean Blalock
Carol Burnham
Margaret Brown Chavis
Virginia Allen Crockford
Eileen M. Dooley
Rozanne G. Epps
Hope Haley Montoni
Naomi Lewis Morse
Susanne Schilling
Lillian Wilson Stackhouse

1986

Barbara Grey
Mary Tyler McClenahan
Mary Payne
Theresa Pollak
Dr. Isabel Rogers
Norma H. Schanz
Bernadine Simmons
Joyce E. Stanley-Scott
Barbara Ukrop
Anne M. Whittemore

1987

Christina S. Abby
Dr. Virgie M. Binford
Susanna M. Capers
Jean W. Cunningham, Esq.
Mildred C. (Millie) Jones
Murial J. McAuley
Dr. Susan J. Mellette
Elvira J. Moore
Wendy Bauers Northup
Frances H. Rosi
Lillian C. Throckmorton

1988

Patricia M. Asch
Beverly Davis
Dr. Frances Dunston
Judith Fox
Margaret Freeman
Dr. Lisa Kaplowitz
Cleomine Lewis
Sandra Parker
Eleanor Sheppard
Mary Sue Terry, Esq.
Stoner Winslett
Lorna Wyckoff

1989

Judith S. Bond, Ph.D.
Naomi A. Hall
Gladys Jackson-Weston
Elizabeth B. Lacy
Sara Markham
Nikki Nicholau
Louise Seals
Peg Spangenthal
Eva S. Teig Hardy
Hilda Yates Warden

1990

Sister Cora Marie Billings
Beverly J. Brown
Dr. Judith Ann Brown
Sylvia Costen
Jill A. Hanken, Esq.
R. Elizabeth Marschak
Anne Gregory "Panny" Rhodes
Jean Thompson Williams
Pamela M. Womack
Elizabeth Byrd York

1991

Judith Collins, O.G.N.P.
Sheila Crowley
Dr. Margaret G. Dabney
Okianer Christian Dark, Esq.
Mary Lou Deal
Jacqueline G. Epps, Esq.
Lisa LaFata Powell
Louise McComb
Carolyn M. Meares
Yvonne Elizabeth Spain

1992

Marguerita Fauntleroy Austin
Barbara S. Brown
Florence Neal-Cooper
Marilynn C. Goss
Jane Norwood Kusiak
Linda Gatch LaCombe
Donna Mercer
Carol O. Negus
Anne Teefey

1994

Thelma Bland Watson, Ph.D.
Faye Benton
Betsy Brinson
Uliana Gabara
R. Claire Guthrie
Phyllis Cothran
Carol Fox
Shirley Fountain
Myerna McLaughlin
Cynthia Mayo

1995

Connie Berkeley Abeloff
Rev. Dr. Patricia A. Gould-Champ
Rita Prizler Hull, Ph.D.
Mary Jo Ellis Kahn, O.G.N.P.
Phyllis C. Katz
Katharine C. Lee
Anne Dobie Peebles
LaVerne Byrd Smith, Ph.D.
Anna D. Soulious
Veronica Fleming Templeton

1996

Jeannie P. Baliles
Sheilah Y. Belle
Ida J. Hill
Lerla G. Joseph, M.D.
Valerie Ann Lemmie
Julie D. McClellan, Esq.
Eleanor Calvert Meleski
Christina S. Risatti
Virginia H. Ritchie
Diane M. Roberts

1997

Joann N. Bodurtha
Marguerite F. Christian
Josée Gallé Covington
Rosalyn Randolph Dance
Beth J. Gillispie
Beverly C. Lacy
Sr. Charlotte Lange, O.S.B.
Sharon DeButts Richardson
Judge Margaret Poles Spencer

1998

Comfort Y. Anderson-Miller
The Honorable Viola O. Baskerville
Elizabeth Bauder
Rejena Carreras
Susan G. Kornstein, M.D.
Dr. Ann Parker Maust
Karen A. Raschke
Daisy Frye Reed
Martha S. Slay
Grace S. Sparks

1999

Rev. Donna B. Coffman, R.N.
Susanne B. Crump
Blanche Hamlette Gaitor
Lelia Baum Hopper
Renny Bush Humphrey
Marie V. Maniego
Nan L. Miller
Mary Hayes Mule, R.N., B.S.N.
Barbara Joynes
Dianne N. Watkins

2000

Nancy R. Belleman
Diana F. Cantor
Diane Cook-Tench
Sue Duke Drudge
Anne Fischer
Sheryl L. Garland
Alice W. Harris
Christine R. Miller
Jacquelyn E. Stone
Marcia H. Thalhimer

2001

Barbara Hall Dunn
Delores R. Green, Ed.D.
JoAnne Kirk Henry
Sara Belle November
Patricia S. O'Bannon
Julie Plunkett
The Honorable Cleo Elaine Powell
Robbie Sullivan Thompson
M. Michelle Thomson
Nancy Lancaster Warman

2002

Mary W. Atterholt
Susan M. Jamieson
Gail W. Johnson
Darcy S. Oman
Deborah D. Oswalt
Phyllis Palmiero
Virginia W. Powell
Dr. Delores Pretlow
Sabrina Squire
Cabell Goolsby West

2003

Diane M. Abato
Jennifer Daffron Brown
Irene Carney, Ph.D.
Marge Connelly
Barbara Woodland Fleming
Cantor Frances T. Goldman
Antionette Vanessa Irving
Marcia Penn, Ph.D.
Charlotte K. Roberts
Lisa Schaffner

2004

Jean Patterson Boone
Rev. Rhonda VanDyke Colby
Janett Forte
Carmen Francine Foster
Catherine W. Howard, Ph.D.
Amy Nisenson
Ellen Shaw de Paredes, M.D.
Debra J. Prillaman
Marilyn Tavenner

2005

Betsy Brooks Carr
Marjorie Grier
Deborah Hackman
Deborah Jewell-Sherman
Adele Johnson
Edna Keys-Chavis
Kathie Markel
Bev Reynolds
Dianne L. Reynolds-Cane
Angela Edwards Roberts

2006

Nancy Wright Beasley
Dr. Jo Lynne DeMary
Paula Paster Gulak
Anne B. Holton
Lynne B. Hughes
Jo Bowman Kennedy
Delores L. McQuinn
Martha Franck Rollins
Aradhana Bela Sood, M.D.
Geraldine Byrd Story

2007

Dr. Belinda Childress Anderson
Sherrie Brach
Tara Louise Casey
Jann Malone
Maureen Denlea Massey
Rebecca (Becky) Massey
Joan O. Oates
Paula Owens Parker
Ellen F. Robertson
Michelle Whitehurst-Cook, M.D.

2008

Pamela S. Belleman
Lissy S. Bryan
Susan E. Dubuque
Colleen A. Kraft, M.D., FAAP
Page Luxmoore
Cheryl E. Miller
Dr. Lucille Murray Brown
Marlene Paul
Pam Woltz
Clara B. Woody

2009

Catherine "Kitty" Claiborne
Kimberlie J. Farlow
Robin Lynn Foster, MD
Manju S. Ganeriwala
Frances F. Goldman
Fay Lohr
Connie Moslow
Jane G. Watkins
Lula M. Brown White

2010

Diane H. Ager
Susan Forbes Dewey
True Farr Luck
Catherine 'Kate' M. Marriott
Margaret 'Lyn' E. McDermid
Patricia J. Reams
Pamela J. Royal
Karen J. Stanley
Sue Forbes Watson
Susan Winiecki

2011

Stacy Hawkins Adams
Kathleen Burke Barrett
Katherine Busser
Dr. Yvonne Brandon
Lorie Foley
Alice Goodwin
Shawnee Weitzel Hansen
Deborah Johnston
Colleen Marea Quinn

2012

Karen Coltrane
Sally Green
Iris Holliday
Joan Lipstock
Nancy Oglesby
Jennifer Parham
Robin Starr
Carole Weinstein
Leslie Wyatt