Annie Lowrie AlexanderW
Annie Lowrie Alexander

Annie Lowrie Alexander was an American physician and educator. She was the first licensed female physician in the Southern United States.

Caroline Meriwether GoodlettW
Caroline Meriwether Goodlett

Caroline Douglas Meriwether Goodlett was an American philanthropist and the founding president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Kitty O'Brien JoynerW
Kitty O'Brien Joyner

Kitty O'Brien Joyner was an American electrical engineer with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and then with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) upon its replacement of NACA in 1958. She was the first woman to graduate from the University of Virginia's engineering program in 1939, receiving the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award upon graduation. When she was hired by NACA the same year, she became the first woman engineer at the organization, eventually rising to the title Branch Head and managing several of its wind tunnels. Her work contributed to research on aeronautics, supersonic flight, airfoils, and aircraft design standards.

Corinne MelchersW
Corinne Melchers

Corinne Lawton Mackall Melchers was an American painter, humanitarian, and gardener. She was the wife of painter Gari Melchers and maintained their Belmont estate after his death. As a gardener and rosarian, Melchers was an early supporter of the Historic Garden Week and heavily involved with the restoration of the grounds of the Kenmore plantation. She led humanitarian efforts during World War I and World War II. Melchers initiated the creation of the Stafford County Health Association and the hiring of the first Stafford County nurse. Melchers helped establish the Mary Washington Hospital and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She served on the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

Elizabeth Fry PageW
Elizabeth Fry Page

Elizabeth Fry Page was an American author and editor associated with the South. A co-founder of the Tennessee Woman's Press and Authors' Club, she served as the Poet Laureate of the Tennessee division of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) and that of the Tennessee Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). She lectured on literary, musical and philosophical subjects. Coming from a long line of literary ancestors, Page's journalistic life began early, and she worked in many branches of her profession, as a journalist, magazine editor, essayist, short story writer and a producer of verse. Page was a veteran club woman.

Eugenia Dunlap PottsW
Eugenia Dunlap Potts

Eugenia Dunlap Potts was a writer in Lancaster, Kentucky. She owned and edited the Illustrated Kentuckian. She wrote poetry and historical works. Potts was recognized by the State of Kentucky for her contributions as a Kentucky author with a plaque outside the site of her former home.

Anna Davenport RainesW
Anna Davenport Raines

Anna Mitchell Davenport Raines was an American philanthropist and founding Vice President of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She later served as the organization's Honorary President General and as the Custodian of the Southern Cross of Honor.

Laura Martin RoseW
Laura Martin Rose

Laura Martin Rose was a historian and propagandist for the Ku Klux Klan employed by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Mildred Lewis RutherfordW
Mildred Lewis Rutherford

Mildred Lewis "Miss Millie" Rutherford was a prominent white supremacist educator and author from Athens, Georgia. She served the Lucy Cobb Institute, as its head and in other capacities, for over forty years, and oversaw the addition of the Seney-Stovall Chapel to the school. Heavily involved in many organizations, she became the historian general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), and a speech given for the UDC was the first by a woman to be recorded in the Congressional Record. She was a prolific non-fiction writer. Also known for her oratory, Rutherford was distinctive in dressing as a southern belle for her speeches. She held strong pro-Confederacy, proslavery views and opposed women's suffrage.

Rosa Lee TuckerW
Rosa Lee Tucker

Rosa Lee Tucker was an American librarian. While still a teenager, she served as State Librarian of Mississippi.

Fay Webb-GardnerW
Fay Webb-Gardner

Fay Lamar Webb-Gardner was an American political hostess, businesswoman, and philanthropist. As the wife of Oliver Max Gardner, she served as the Second Lady of North Carolina from 1917 to 1923 and as First Lady of North Carolina from 1929 to 1933. When her husband's political career took them to Washington, D.C., she became known as a prominent society and political hostess and was considered one of the most popular figures in American political circles of the time. Webb was active in cultural and civic endeavors and was a member of the American Red Cross, the Woman's Missionary Union, the North Carolina Symphony Society, the National Civic League, and the League of Women Voters, as well as Chairwoman of the North Carolina State Advisory Board of Paroles. A Democrat, she served on the North Carolina Democratic Committee and the Democratic National Committee, and was twice elected as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.

Angelina Virginia WinklerW
Angelina Virginia Winkler

Angelina Virginia Winkler was an American journalist, editor, magazine publisher. She specialized in literary criticism of Southern literature.

Rosa Louise WoodberryW
Rosa Louise Woodberry

Rosa Louise Woodberry was an American journalist, educator, and stenographer. She was the founder and principal of Woodberry Hall, and the first woman to attend the University of Georgia.