At a retreat of sixty UU women from Minnesota in the
spring of 2000, participants critiqued the first draft of this manual
and requested a list of female UU leaders from our time. This list is
intended to honor some of our UU women who have taken risks and
accepted leadership in our movement for justice.
| 2001– | Linda McAffrey, Ferguson, Missouri |
| 1998–2001 | Tina Jas, Eastham, Massachusetts |
| 1995–1998 | Arlene Johnson, Tulsa, Oklahoma |
| 1991–1995 | Kay Aler-Maida, Brooklyn, New York |
| 1987–1991 | Phyllis C. Rickter, Arlington, Massachusetts |
| 1985–1987 | Clarise Jefferson, Normal, Illinois |
| 1981–1985 | Denise Davidoff, Norwalk, Connecticut |
| 1977–1981 | Natalie Gulbrandsen, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts |
| 1973–1977 | Dru Cummins, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 1969–1973 | Alice Kimball, West Hartland, Connecticut |
| 1967–1969 | Beatrice B. Carpenter, Greenville, Rhode Island |
| 1965–1967 | Dorothy Chapman, Silver Spring, Maryland |
| 1963–1965 | Juliet L. Underwood, Cincinnati, Ohio |
| 2000 | Drusilla Cummins and her UUWF Board |
| 1999 | Judith Norsigian and the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective |
| 1998 | Lucile Schuck Longview and Rosemary Matson for initiating the 1977 UUA Women and Religion Resolution |
| 1997 | Carolyn McDade, songwriter and activist |
| 1996 | New Moon Magazine |
| 1995 | Reverend Marie Fortune, founder and executive director of the National Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence |
| 1994 | Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder and artistic director of Sweet Honey in the Rock |
| 1993 | No award |
| 1992 | Studio D of the National Film Board of Canada |
| 1991 | National Coalition Against Domestic Violence |
| 1990 | Planned Parenthood of America, Inc. |
| 1989 | Women of the UU Service Committee, in honor of the UUSC’s 50th anniversary |
| 1988 | No award |
| 1987 | Dr. Jean Baker Miller, psychologist and author |
| 1986 | Justine Merrit, founder of The Ribbon Peace project |
| 1985 | Women in the Pews (UU laywomen) |
| 1984 | Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund |
| 1983 | Sarah McClendon, journalist based in Washington, D.C. |
| 1982 | May Sarton, author, poet, diarist, feminist |
| 1981 | Tish Sommers, pioneer advocate for the rights of older women and displaced homemakers |
| 1980 | Tillie Olsen, author |
| 1979 | Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights |
| 1978 | Lt. Governor Thelma Stovall of Kentucky, who vetoed the Kentucky legislature’s bill to rescind their Equal Rights Amendment ratification vote |
| 1977 | Dr. Pauli Murray, lawyer and first African American Episcopal woman priest |
| 1976 | Maggie Kuhn, founder for the Gray Panthers |
| 1975 | The first eleven women ordained as Episcopal priests |
| 1974 | Ms. Magazine |
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