Queen D. Fowler

First African American woman school superintendent in State of Missouri.

Mary Frances Berry

Appointed Assistant Secretary of Education, US Department of Education; former Chancellor, University of Colorado-Boulder.

Gwendolyn Boyd

First African American woman to graduate from Yale University School of Engineering.

Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray

First African American female Episcopal priest in the US First Black Attorney General in the State of California. Only woman in her law school class at Howard University.

Sheila Wheatley Clark

First African American woman to be admitted into partnership in a Big Eight accounting firm- Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., an international public accounting firm.

Constance Clayton

First African American woman superintendent of the Philadelphia Public School System.

Ethel L. Payne

First African American woman journalist to cover international affairs.

Shirley A. Jackson, Ph.D

The 18th President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African American woman to head a leading technological university. First Black woman to earn a doctorate in physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology- degree in theoretical particle physics. She was the first African American woman to become a commissioner of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Edith White Ming

First African American world president of the World Federation of Methodist Women.

Gloria Randle Scott

First African American woman to serve as president of the Girl Scouts of America. She was named President of Bennett College, Greensboro, NC.

Juanita Kidd Stout

Highest ranking African Americanwoman jurist on the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court.

Niara Sudarkasa

First African American to be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. She was named President of Lincoln University (PA).

Carrie Meek

First African American female elected to the Florida Senate. First Black woman elected to the US House of Representatives from the State of Florida.

Alexis Herman

Named Chief Executive Officer of the 1992 Democratic National Convention Committee. She served previously as Deputy Director of the Presidential Transition Office and as Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee and Chief-of-Staff. Appointed Assistant to the President of the United States and Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison. She is the Secretary of Labor and a Cabinet Member in the Administration of President William Clinton.