Women of Conscience Award winners

Women who have been deemed by the National Council of Women to have contributed to improving the world through their leadership and dedication.

• Dr. Anne Carlson

  American educator; quadriplegic from birth.

  • 1981 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her work with severely handicapped children
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh (born 1907)

  American aviator, author and poet. Wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh.

  • 1986 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her books, which have influenced thousands of women
• Annie Mae Bankhead

  African-American community leader.

  • 1969 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for community-building in the impoverished College Station area of Arkansas
• Barbara Charline Jordan (born 1936, died 1996)

  American lawyer, legislator and professor. The first African-American woman elected to Congress by a Southern state.

  • 1976 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner
• Betty Bumpers

  Peace activist.

  • 1985 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her Peace Links organization, which involved 40,000 women in the disarmament movement
• Daisy Scraven George

  American activist.

  • 1986 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her involvement with the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women, and for her work with women in developing countries
• Elise Boulding (born 1920)

  Norwegian-born American sociologist, educator, and writer.

  • 1980 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her ''''urging of peaceful solutions to global conflicts''''
• Ellen Jackson

  American educator.

  • 1967 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her creative community programs for children in Roxbury, Massachusetts
• Ellen Sulzberger Straus

  Urban housing activist.

  • 1970 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her work on housing problems in New York City
• Ethlyn Christensen

  American activist for the elderly.

  • 1982 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her work on behalf of senior citizens in Colorado
• Florence M. Kelley

  American judge.

  • 1966 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her work defending distressed youth
• Frances Pauley

  African-American civil rights activist.

  • 1974 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner
• Frances Lehman Loeb

  Volunteer activist.

  • 1978 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her contributions to volunteerism
• Hazel Brannon Smith

  American journalist and editor.

  • 1964 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for ''''her courageous editorial stand on civil rights in her Mississippi newspaper''''
• Julia E. Robinson

  Youth activist.

  • 1984 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her devotion to the needs of troubled youths
• Julia Hines Mabus

  Literacy activist and educator. Chair of the Mississippi Literacy Foundation and the Governor's Task Force on Childcare.

  • 1990 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner
• Margaret C. Snyder

  Head of the United Nations Funds for Women.

  • 1989 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner
• Margaret Mead (born 1901, died 1978)

  American anthropologist.

  • 1975 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her innovative field work and study of the cultures of Samoa and New Guinea
• Mary Allen Engle (born 1922)

  American physician.

  • 1979 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her pioneer work researching and treating congenital cardio-vascular disease in children
• Mildred Robbins Leet (born 1922)

  American United Nations official.

  • 1986 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her Trickle-Up Program
• Nancy Hanks

  American educator. Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts.

  • 1977 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her support of diversity in the arts
• Patricia Smith

  American physician and activist.

  • 1973 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her medical work among the people of Vietnam
• Sister Ruth Dowd

  American educator. Founder of the Harlem Preparatory School.

  • 1972 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for encouraging black youth to continue their education
• Sarah McClendon (born 1910)

  American journalist.

  • 1983 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her outspoken and insightful reporting on the White House, Congressional hearings and the Pentagon
• Suzan D. Johnson

  Senior pastor in the American Baptist Churches.

  • 1987-88 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her contributions to the well-being of working women and their families
• Virginia Sanders

  American educator.

  • 1965 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner for her work in continuing education for women returning to the workforce
• Rachel Louise Carson (born 1907, died 1964)

  American biologist, environmentalist and writer. Her books were among the first to draw attention to human environmental devastation.

  • 1963 National Council of Women''s Women of Conscience award winner