Notable Women of Arlington

Working with Marymount University from 1991-1993, the Commission on the Status of Women compiled biographies of Arlington women who show how people willing to fight for a cause, work for change, or challenge assumptions, can accomplish the extraordinary. It is now part of the Library’s Virginia Room Collection.

1991
Judith Brewer
Alice West Fleet
Phoebe Hall Knipling
Lois Potter

1992
Joanne Alper
Sister Majella Berg
Sarah Brady
Elizabeth Campbell
Joan Cooper
Margaret Fisher
Doreen Gentzler
Lois Gibbs
Elizabeth McCorkle
Ann Gilbert McDonald
Mariah Burton Nelson
My Linh Soland
Frances Storey
Evelyn Reid Syphax

1993
Alice Anderson
Dorothy Bigelow-Hamm
Ellen M. Bozman
Helen F. Fahey
Audrey Dooling Ghizzoni
Sue King Hu
Mary Marshall
Ruth Barbara Morgan
Gail M. Reals
Ruth Preston Rose
Sharon Steindam
Virginia Stitzenberger
Emma Violand-Sanchez

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Arlington Mill Community Center, 909 S Dinwiddie St,, Arlington, VA 22201

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