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| نام | تصویر | تاریخ تولد | سال | زمینهٔ دستاورد | م>  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| استر گوردی ادواردز |  |  | ۲۰۲۲ | بنیان‌گذار موزه تاریخی موتاون؛ نخستین زنی که در هیئت ۴۰نفرهٔ انجمن منطقه تجاری مرکزی خدمت کرد |  |
| کارول سو هاچینز |  | ۱۹۵۷ | ۲۰۲۲ | سرمربی تیم سافت‌بال میشیگان ولورینز؛ پرافتخارترین مربی در تاریخ سافت‌بال ان‌سی‌ای‌ای |  |
| ماری کریمر |  |  | ۲۰۲۲ | ناشر |  |
| ماری لاک پیترمان |  | ۱۹۰۸ | ۲۰۲۲ | زیست‌شیمی‌دان سلولی |  |
| دنیل کامیل وودز |  |  | ۲۰۲۲ | رابط ال‌جی‌بی‌تی‌کیو برای ادارهٔ پلیس دیترویت |  |
| روزالیند برویر |  |  | ۲۰۲۱ | مدیرعامل والگرینز بوتز آلینس |  |
| دبرا وایت-هانت |  |  | ۲۰۲۱ | از بنیان‌گذاران و مدیر هنری آکادمی رقص دیترویت-وینزور |  |
| لیلا نیونفلت |  | (۱۹۰۲–۱۹۸۱) | ۲۰۲۱ | نخستین قاصی زن در دادگاه منطقه‌ای میشیگان |  |
| فانی بی. پک |  | (۱۸۸۰–۱۹۷۱) | ۲۰۲۱ | لیگ ملی زنان خانه‌دار، بنیان‌گذاری لیگ زنان خانه دار دیترویت. ایجادگر اتحاد اعتبار فانی بی. پک. ایجادگر نخستین قبرستان برای آفریقایی-آمریکایی‌ها در دیترویت |  |
| سارا الیزابت ری |  | (۱۹۱۷–۲۰۰۶) | ۲۰۲۱ | برندهٔ دعوی حقوقی تبعیض نژادی علیه شرکت باب-لو اکسکورژن در سال ۱۹۴۵ |  |
| دایانا سیگر |  |  | 2021 | President of the Grand Rapids Community Foundation |  |
| ناجا باززی |  |  | 2020 | Detroit activist created Zaman International nonprofit to combat poverty |  |
| الیزابت جکسون (میشیگان) |  |  | 2020 | Co-founder of Trade Union Leadership Council |  |
| Glenda Price |  |  | 2020 | First African American president of Marygrove College |  |
| مارتا تیچنر |  |  | 2020 | CBS Sunday Morning news correspondent |  |
| اطلس روث وستبروک |  |  | 2020 | NASA's Apollo 11 project; one of the "Human Math Computers" depicted in the movie “Hidden Figures |  |
| Dorothy Zehnder |  |  | 2020 | Bavarian Inn Co-Founder |  |
| Margaret Kirchner Stevenson |  | (1920–1998) | 2019 | Female pilot, one of the first women to fly a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress |  |
| Lucile A. Watts |  | (1920–2018) | 2019 | First woman to serve on the Michigan Circuit Court |  |
| Martha Baldwin |  | (1840–1913) | 2019 | American educator and activist |  |
| Gilda Z. Jacobs |  |  | 2019 | Politician and president of the Michigan League for Public Policy |  |
| Vernice Davis Anthony |  |  | 2019 | Health expert |  |
| Terry Blackhawk |  |  | 2019 | Educator |  |
| Agatha Biddle |  | (1797–1873) | 2018 | Odawa fur trader |  |
| Mona Hanna-Attisha |  | (b. 1976) | 2018 | Pediatrician whose research exposed the dangerous levels of lead in the water of Flint, Michigan. |  |
| Clara Stanton Jones |  | (1913–2012) | 2018 | First African-American president of the American Library Association |  |
| Angela K. Wilson |  |  | 2018 | Chemistry Division Director of the National Science Foundation |  |
| Kym L. Worthy |  |  | 2018 | Civil rights, law enforcement |  |
| American Legion NUWARINE Post 535 |  |  | 2017 | Michigan's last remaining all-female American Legion post |  |
| Ella Mae Backus |  | (1863–1938) | 2017 | First woman in Michigan to become an Assistant U.S. Attorney |  |
| Clara Bryant Ford |  | (1866–1950) | 2017 | Wife of Henry Ford, created and funded programs benefiting women |  |
| Lisette Denison Forth |  | (c1790–1866) | 2017 | Philanthropist, former slave |  |
| Mary Kay Henry |  | (b. 1958) | 2017 | President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) |  |
| Verna Grahek Mize |  | (1913–2013) | 2017 | Environmentalist whose legal battles ended dumping of mining waste into Lake Superior |  |
| Bernice Morton |  |  | 2017 | Developed Affirmative Action program at Wayne State University; helped develop the first Model Cities Comprehensive Health Care Center in the U.S. |  |
| Rosie the Riveter |  |  | 2017 | WWII cultural icon who appeared on numerous posters showing women at work in the war service industries |  |
| Rosemary C. Sarri |  |  | 2017 | Social worker who was instrumental in the passage of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act |  |
| Elizabeth Wetzel |  |  | 2017 | First female Design Director for General Motors |  |
| Elizabeth Sparks Adams |  | (1911–2007) | 2016 | Government, history, women's rights |  |
| Anan Ameri |  | (b. 1944) | 2016 | Art, history, community service, writing |  |
| Daisy Elliott |  | (1917–2015) | 2016 | Government, Civil Rights |  |
| Faith Fowler |  | (b. 1959) | 2016 | Religion, women's rights, community service, civil rights |  |
| Evelyn Golden |  | (1913–2005) | 2016 | Medicine, community service |  |
| Olivia Letts |  | (b. 1928) | 2016 | Education, civil rights, community service |  |
| Mary Free Bed Guild  |  |  | 2016 | Charity organization begun by women in 1891 to provide medical care to those who cannot otherwise afford it |  |
| Diana Ross |  | (b. 1944) | 2016 | Music |  |
| Lou Anna Kimsey Simon |  | (b. 1947) | 2016 | Education, women's rights |  |
| Charlotte Wilson |  | (1854–1914) | 2016 | Art, civil rights, education, suffrage, women's rights |  |
| Jocelyn Benson |  | (b. 1977) | 2015 | Dean of the Wayne State University Law School |  |
| Maxine Berman |  | (b. 1946) | 2015 | Former member of Michigan House of Representatives; political consultant |  |
| Sue Carter |  | (b. 1950) | 2015 | Episcopalian minister, television and radio journalist |  |
| Janet C. Cooper |  | (1931–2002) | 2015 | Civil rights, education, government, law |  |
| Mabel White Holmes |  | (1890–1977) | 2015 | Invented Jiffy mix |  |
| Candice Miller |  | (b. 1954) | 2015 | United States House of Representatives |  |
| Esther K. Shapiro |  | (b. 1917) | 2015 | First director of Detroit's Consumer Affairs Department |  |
| Maggie Walz |  | (1861–1927) | 2015 | Finnish immigrant who used her subsequent education and business expertise to establish a Finnish colony in Drummond Township |  |
| Myra Wolfgang |  | (1914 –1976) | 2015 | Labor leader, women's rights activist |  |
| Linda M. Woods |  | (b. 1943) | 2015 | Native American Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, United States Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War, social worker |  |
| Elizabeth Lehman Belen |  | (1886–1975) | 2014 | Politics; second woman elected to the Michigan House of Representatives; first woman and Democrat elected from Lansing |  |
| MaryLee Davis |  | (b. 1943) | 2014 | Michigan State University administrator and professor |  |
| Jeanne Findlater |  | (b. 1928) | 2014 | General manager of WXYZ-TV/Detroit and vice president of ABC Television |  |
| Dorothy A. Johnson |  | (b. 1940) | 2014 | President Emeritus of the Council of Michigan Foundations; Johnson Center for Philanthropy |  |
| Julie Krone |  | (b. 1963) | 2014 | Thoroughbred jockey Julie Krone is the only woman to ride the winner of a Triple Crown event (the 1993 Belmont Stakes), the first woman to win a Breeders’ Cup event (2003 Juvenile Fillies), and the first woman to win a million-dollar event (2003 Pacific Classic). |  |
| Mary Carmelita Manning |  | (1888–1962) | 2014 | Sister of Mercy order; opened the first Central School of Nursing in Michigan (the second in the country) |  |
| Barbara Roberts Mason |  | (b. 1940) | 2014 | Politics; State Board of Education; seconded the nomination of vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro |  |
| Marylou Olivarez Mason |  |  | 2014 | Hispanic rights; first Hispanic woman on the Lansing Community College Board of Trustees |  |
| Andra M. Rush |  | (b. 1960 | 2014 | Business; former chairwoman and CEO of the Rush Group Family of Companies; founded the largest Native American-owned business in the United States. |  |
| Mary Ellen Sheets |  | (b. 1940) | 2014 | Founder of Two Men and a Truck moving company |  |
| Lucille Farrier Stickel |  | (1915–2007) | 2014 | Environmentalist; first woman to direct a major Federal laboratory |  |
| Elizabeth W. Bauer |  | (b. 1937) | 2013 | Advocate for the rights of people with disabilities |  |
| Judith Levin Cantor |  | (b. 1928) | 2013 | Jewish historian, author, archivist, and exhibit curator |  |
| Con-Con Eleven  |  |  | 2013 | The 11 women delegates at the 1961–1962 Michigan Constitutional Convention: Vera Andrus, Ruth Gibson Butler, Anne M. Conklin, Katherine Moore Cushman, Ann Elizabeth Donnelly, Daisy Elizabeth Elliott, Adelaide Julia Hart, Lillian Hatcher, Dorothy Leonard Judd, Ella Demmink Koeze, and Marjorie Frances McGowan |  |
| Paula Cunningham |  | (b. 1949) | 2013 | First female president of Lansing Community College |  |
| Elizabeth Eaglesfield |  | (1853–1940) | 2013 | Businesswoman and one of the first female steamship captains on Lake Michigan |  |
| Joan Jackson Johnson |  | (b. 1948) | 2013 | Advocate for the poor, homeless, and mentally ill |  |
| Gladys McKenney |  | (b. 1928) | 2013 | Educator and advocate for women's rights |  |
| Harriet Quimby |  | (1875–1912) | 2013 | Early American aviator and movie screenwriter |  |
| Marina von Neumann Whitman |  | (b. 1935–) | 2013 | Vice president of Public Affairs at General Motors |  |
| L. Anna Ballard |  | (1848–1934) | 2012 | Medicine; Lansing’s first female medical doctor. |  |
| Gladys Beckwith |  | (b. 1929) | 2012 | Women's studies |  |
| Patricia Caruso |  | (b. 1954) | 2012 | First woman director of the Michigan Department of Corrections |  |
| Mary Jane Dockeray |  | (1927–2020) | 2012 | Environment |  |
| Eva McCall Hamilton |  | (1871–1948) | 2012 | First woman elected to the Michigan Legislature in 1920 |  |
| Judith Karandjeff |  | (b. 1944) | 2012 | Women's rights |  |
| Les Meres et Debutantes Club of Greater Lansing  |  |  | 2012 | Formed in 1962 by African American mothers, to mentor and fund young African American women debutantes |  |
| Mary E. McCoy |  | (1846–1923) | 2012 | Women's rights and African-American rights |  |
| Serena Williams |  | (b. 1981) | 2012 | Tennis; youngest inductee |  |
| Lois A. Bader |  | (b. 1935) | 2011 | Education |  |
| Jumana Judeh |  | (b. 1959) | 2011 | First vice chair of the Arab American Chamber of Commerce |  |
| Marilyn Kelly |  | (b. 1938) | 2011 | 67th Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court |  |
| Valeria Lipczynski |  | (1846–1930) | 2011 | Community service |  |
| Edelmira Lopez |  | (1922–2017) | 2011 | First female president of the Lansing Mexican Patriotic Committee, and president of the Hispanic Cultural Center |  |
| Kary Moss |  | (b. 1958) | 2011 | Civil rights, law, women's rights |  |
| Rose Mary Robinson |  | (b. 1939) | 2011 | Law, politics |  |
| Tricia Saunders |  | (b. 1966) | 2011 | USA Wrestling Women's Wrestler of the Year twice and the U.S. Olympic Committee Women's Wrestler of the Year three times. |  |
| Mary Aikey |  | (1928–2013) | 2010 | Community service, education, women's rights |  |
| Laura Carter Callow |  | (b. 1927) | 2010 | Women's rights |  |
| Augusta Jane Chapin |  | (1836–1905) | 2010 | American Universalist minister, educator and activist for women's rights. |  |
| Sandra Laser Draggoo |  | (b. 1940) | 2010 | Executive director of Capitol Area Transport Authority |  |
| Annie Etheridge |  | (1840–1913) | 2010 | Civil War nurse |  |
| Sherrill Freeborough |  | (b. 1947) | 2010 | Business |  |
| Dorean Marguerite Hurley Koenig |  | (b. 1934) | 2010 | Education, law |  |
| Terry McMillan |  | (b. 1951) | 2010 | Writer |  |
| Edith Munger |  | (1865–1945) | 2010 | Environment, bird conservationist |  |
| Cynthia J. Pasky |  | (b. 1959) | 2010 | Strategic Staffing Solutions |  |
| Grace Lee Boggs |  | (1915–2015) | 2009 | Civil rights |  |
| Margaret Bailey Chandler |  | (1929–1997) | 2009 | Native American rights |  |
| Ruth Ellis |  | (1899–2000) | 2009 | Business, gay rights |  |
| Edna Ferber |  | (1885–1968) | 2009 | Pulitzer Prize winning author whose works were adapted to movies and stage productions |  |
| Glenda Lappan |  | (b. 1939) | 2009 | Education |  |
| Kay Givens McGowan |  | (b. 1942) | 2009 | Native American rights, women's rights |  |
| Elizabeth Phillips |  | (b. 1937) | 2009 | Education |  |
| Jessica Rickert |  | (b. 1950) | 2009 | Dentistry, Native American rights |  |
| Betty Tableman |  | (b. 1922) | 2009 | Mental health |  |
| Marlo Thomas |  | (b. 1937) | 2009 | Community service, entertainment, women's rights |  |
| Carol Atkins |  | (1923–2013) | 2008 | Women's rights, writing |  |
| Patricia Cuza |  | (b. 1936) | 2008 | First executive director chosen by the Michigan Women's Commission |  |
| Carol King |  | (b. 1948) | 2008 | Film maker. Served as an aide to Maryann Mahaffey and to US Congressman John Conyers |  |
| Vicki Neiberg |  | (b. 1940) | 2008 | Founding member of Michigan Women's Political Caucus |  |
| Jane Johnston Schoolcraft |  | (1800–1842) | 2008 | First known Native American writer,  granddaughter of Ojibwe chief Waubojeeg |  |
| Leta Snow |  | (1880–1980) | 2008 | Founded the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, president of the Kalamazoo Musical Society |  |
| Sister Mary Francilene Van de Vyver |  | (1941–2001) | 2008 | President Madonna University |  |
| Mary Brown |  | (b. 1935) | 2007 | Michigan State House of Representatives |  |
| Gertrude Buck |  | (1871–1922) | 2007 | Education |  |
| Emma Cole |  | (1845–1910) | 2007 | Environmentalist |  |
| Haifa Fakhouri |  |  | 2007 | Founder, president, and CEO of the Arab American and Chaldean Council |  |
| Carolyn Geisel |  | (1862–1932) | 2007 | Health care, lecturer for the Battle Creek Sanitarium |  |
| Jane Briggs Hart |  | (1922–2015) | 2007 | Aviator, women's rights. Tested for fitness to enter NASA’s astronaut training program, submitting to the same physical and psychological tests administered to the Mercury 7 astronauts. |  |
| Abigail Rogers |  | (1818–1869) | 2007 | Education, women's rights |  |
| Kathleen Wilbur |  | (b. 1953) | 2007 | Michigan State University trustee, president Central Michigan University |  |
| Woman's Hospital Association (Charter Members)  |  |  | 2007 | 114 women who signed a charter in 1896 to establish the Woman's Hospital Association |  |
| Martha Strickland Clark |  | (1853–1935) | 2006 | First woman to argue a case before the Michigan Supreme Court.  Orator on women's suffrage, temperance, and finance |  |
| Mary Esther Daddazio |  | (1924–2015) | 2006 | Women's rights |  |
| Margery Feliksa |  | (1925–2001) | 2006 | Community service |  |
| Nancy Hammond |  | (b. 1937) | 2006 | Government, women's rights |  |
| Viola Liuzzo |  | (1925–1965) | 2006 | Civil Rights Activist |  |
| Marge Piercy |  | (b. 1936) | 2006 | Essayist, novelist, poet |  |
| Dora Hall Stockman |  | (1872–1948) | 2006 | Michigan House of Representatives |  |
| Helen Hornbeck Tanner |  | (1916–2011) | 2006 | History, Native American rights, senior research fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago |  |
| Margaret Chiara |  | (b. 1943) | 2005 | United States Attorney – Western District of Michigan |  |
| Eva Lois Evans |  | (b. 1935) | 2005 | President of the Lansing Community College Foundation |  |
| Georgia Lewis Johnson |  | (b. 1930) | 2005 | Medicine, health care |  |
| Lida Holmes Mattman |  | (1912–2008) | 2005 | Math, science, medicine, health care |  |
| Olivia Maynard |  | (b. 1936) | 2005 | First woman to chair the Michigan Democratic Party |  |
| Debbie Stabenow |  | (b. 1950) | 2005 | United States Senator |  |
| Caroline Thrun |  | (1897–1983) | 2005 | Assistant Attorney General for Michigan; drafted the 1979 Michigan School Code |  |
| Margaret Sellers Walker |  | (b. 1935) | 2005 | First African American to head a division of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources |  |
| Elizabeth Weaver |  | (1941–2015) | 2005 | 98th Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court in 1995, named Chief Justice of the Court in 1999 |  |
| Cynthia Yao |  | (b. 1940) | 2005 | Executive director of Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum |  |
| Geraldine Bledsoe Ford |  | (1926–2003) | 2004 | First black woman in the United States to be elected to a judgeship |  |
| Jennifer Mulhern Granholm |  | (b. 1959) | 2004 | 47th Governor of Michigan |  |
| Lystra Gretter |  | (1858–1951) | 2004 | Director of the Detroit Visiting Nurses Association |  |
| Florine Mark |  |  | 2004 | President and Chief Executive Officer of The WW Group, Inc. |  |
| Cathy McClelland |  | (b. 1954) | 2004 | Founder, president, and CEO of the Detroit Entrepreneurship Institute |  |
| Constance Mayfield Rourke |  | (1885–1941) | 2004 | Author specializing in notable American figures and American history |  |
| Mary Agnes Blair |  | (1909–1982) | 2003 | Advocate for deaf and hearing-impaired children, and special education programs |  |
| Verne Burbridge |  | (1896–2005) | 2003 | Community service |  |
| Nellie Cuellar |  | (1899–1987) | 2003 | Patricipant in the Selma to Montgomery marches; co-chair of the southwest Detroit United Citizens |  |
| Alice Scanlan Kocel |  | (1920–2017) | 2003 | Michigan Department of Civil Rights,  Liaison to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |  |
| Joyce Lewis Kornbluh |  | (b. 1928) | 2003 | Educator, activist, and advocate for improving lives of working-class individuals |  |
| Eliza Seaman Leggett |  | (1815–1900) | 2003 | Abolition, suffrage, women's rights |  |
| Ida Lippman |  | (1893–1980) | 2003 | Law enforcement |  |
| Marion Weyant Ruth |  | (1918–2004) | 2003 | Pioneering aviator |  |
| Bernice Steadman |  | (1925–2015) | 2003 | Mercury 13 astronaut |  |
| Pamela Withrow |  | (b. 1948) | 2003 | Law enforcement,  first woman warden of a male correctional institution in Michigan. |  |
| Ruth Zweifler |  | (b. 1930) | 2003 | Founder of the Student Advocacy Center of Michigan |  |
| Hortense Canady |  | (1927–2010) | 2002 | Governor's Committee on the Status of Women, Michigan Women's Commission |  |
| Julia Wheelock Freeman |  | (1833–1900) | 2002 | Civil War nurse with the Michigan Soldiers Relief Association |  |
| Lillian Mellen Genser |  | (1920–2006) | 2002 | Peace movement, conflict resolution |  |
| May Stocking Knaggs |  | (1847–1917) | 2002 | Suffrage |  |
| Naomi Long Madgett |  | (b. 1923) | 2002 | Poet and English professor emeritus of English at Eastern Michigan University |  |
| Lucille H. McCollough |  | (1905–1996) | 2002 | Politics |  |
| Lana Pollack |  | (b. 1942) | 2002 | Politics |  |
| Martha Louise Rayne |  | (1836–1911) | 2002 | Journalism |  |
| Muriel Dorothy Ross |  | (b. 1927) | 2002 | Math, science |  |
| Cora Reynolds Anderson |  | (1882–1950) | 2001 | The first woman, and the first Native American, to serve in the Michigan House of Representatives |  |
| Lucile Belen |  | (1912–2010) | 2001 | Politics |  |
| Theresa Maxis Duchemin |  | (1810–1892) | 2001 | Missionary |  |
| Aretha Franklin |  | (1942–2018) | 2001 | Entertainment |  |
| Francie Kraker Goodridge |  | (b. 1947) | 2001 | Track and field athletic coach |  |
| Marian Bayoff Ilitch |  | (b. 1933) | 2001 | Co-founder of Little Caesars Pizza, owner of Detroit Red Wings, MotorCity Casino Hotel |  |
| Mary Ellen Riordan |  | (1920–2010) | 2001 | President Emerita of the Detroit Federation of Teachers, Local 231, AFL-CIO, |  |
| Josephine Stern Weiner |  | (1912–2000) | 2001 | Community service |  |
| Loney Gordon |  | (1915–1999) | 2000 | Helped develop the vaccine against Whooping Cough |  |
| Katherine G. Heideman |  | (1910–2003) | 2000 | Education |  |
| Dauris Gwendolyn Jackson |  | (1933–1979) | 2000 | Civil rights, education |  |
| Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy |  | (1923–2014) | 2000 | Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit |  |
| Marjorie J. Lansing |  | (1916–1998) | 2000 | Education, women's rights |  |
| Chuan-Pu Lee |  | (1931–2016) | 2000 | Math, science |  |
| Marilyn Fisher Lundy |  | (1925–2014) | 2000 | Education |  |
| Katharine Dexter McCormick |  | (1875–1967) | 2000 | Philanthropist, women's rights |  |
| Kathleen N. Straus |  | (b. 1923) | 2000 | Civil rights |  |
| Clarissa M. Young |  | (1922–1979) | 2000 | Law enforcement |  |
| Patricia Beeman |  | (1925–1996) | 1999 | Civil rights |  |
| Olympia Brown |  | (1835–1926) | 1999 | Religion, suffrage |  |
| Doris DeDeckere |  | (1926–2010) | 1999 | Philanthropist, labor volunteerism |  |
| Margaret Drake Elliott |  | (1904–1999) | 1999 | Environment |  |
| Elizabeth Homer |  | (b. 1943) | 1999 | Women's rights |  |
| Eleonore Hutzel |  | (1885–1979) | 1999 | Medicine, health care |  |
| Ella Eaton Kellogg |  | (1853–1920) | 1999 | Philanthropist, nutrition, pioneer of dietetics |  |
| Emily Burton Ketcham |  | (1838–1907) | 1999 | Suffrage |  |
| Ardeth Platte |  | (b. 1936) | 1999 | Peace movement, conflict resolution |  |
| Connie Binsfeld |  | (1924–2014) | 1998 | 60th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan |  |
| Hilda Patricia Curran |  | (b. 1938) | 1998 | Director of Office of Women and Work, founding member of Women in State Government, a founding trustee of the Michigan Women's Foundation |  |
| Marie Dye |  | (1891–1974) | 1998 | Michigan State University professor who instituted many programs focused on home, the environment and nutrition |  |
| Eleanor M. Josaitis |  | (1931–2011) | 1998 | Co-founder of Focus: HOPE |  |
| Dorrie Ellen Rosenblatt |  | (b. 1948) | 1998 | Gerontology |  |
| Ella Merriman Sharp |  | (1857–1912) | 1998 | Chair Michigan Federation's Forestry Committee.  Chair of the Civic Improvement Committee of the Federation of Women's Clubs. |  |
| Martha Jean Steinberg |  | (1927–2000) | 1998 | Black Radio Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, R&B disc jockey, station owner. Ordained minister who founded the Home of Love church. |  |
| Ruth Thompson |  | (1887–1970) | 1998 | United States House of Representatives |  |
| Lily Tomlin |  | (b. 1939) | 1998 | Entertainment |  |
| Ellen Burstyn |  | (b. 1932) | 1997 | Entertainment |  |
| Marion Corwell-Shertzer |  | (1931–2016) | 1997 | President of  American Women in Radio and Television, Inc.; founded the Metropolitan Detroit Chapter, National School Public Relations Association |  |
| Four Sisters of Charity |  |  | 1997 | Social work |  |
| Della McGraw Goodwin |  | (b. 1931) | 1997 | Founding chairperson of the National Center for the Advancement of Blacks in the Health Professions (NCABHP) |  |
| Alice Hamilton |  | (1869–1970) | 1997 | Physician, research scientist, and author |  |
| Nancy Harkness Love |  | (1914–1976) | 1997 | Director of the WW II Women's Auxiliary Ferry Squadron |  |
| Maryann Mahaffey |  | (1925–2006) | 1997 | President of Detroit City Council 1990–1998, champion of human rights |  |
| Sharon E. Sutton |  | (b. 1941) | 1997 | Architect, Professor Emeritus at College of Built Environments |  |
| Matilda Dodge Wilson |  | (1883–1967) | 1997 | 43rd Lieutenant Governors of Michigan, philanthropist |  |
| Anna Clemenc |  | (1888–1956) | 1996 | Labor activist |  |
| Waunetta McClellan Dominic |  | (1921–1981) | 1996 | Odawa rights activist who spent her career advocating for the United States government to adhere to its treaty obligations to Native Americans. |  |
| Margaret Muth Laurence |  | (1916–1996) | 1996 | Trademark and copyright attorney |  |
| Claudia House Morcom |  | (1932–2014) | 1996 | Founding director of Wayne County Neighborhood Legal Services |  |
| Betsy Graves Reyneau |  | (1888–1964) | 1996 | Portrait artist, focusing on African Americans |  |
| Carrie Frazier Rogers-Brown |  | (b. 1948) | 1996 | Medicine, health care |  |
| Shirley E. Schwartz |  | (b. 1935) | 1996 | Chemist and senior staff research scientist at General Motors Corporation |  |
| Joan Luedders Wolfe |  | (b. 1929) | 1996 | Founder of the West Michigan Environmental Action Council. Member of  the Michigan Natural Resources Commission, and the  Governor's Advisory Committee on Electric Energy Alternatives and the first Natural Resources Trust Fund Board. |  |