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Patricia Buckley Moss uses the considerable commercial success she has earned as an artist to aid child-related charities and promote the use of the arts to help children with learning disabilities succeed in school and in life.

Waynesboro

The first woman to serve on the State Corporation Commission and on the Supreme Court of Virginia, Elizabeth Bermingham Lacy opened doors for Virginia women in the legal profession.

Richmond

The award-winning novels of Sharyn Elaine Arwood McCrumb celebrate the richness and variety of Appalachian culture.

Roanoke County

By striving to improve the lives of those around her, Providencia "Provi" Velazquez Gonzalez serves as an example to her community.

Dale City

As an educator and author, Isabel Wood Rogers advocated that Christians take an active and responsible interest in the secular world.

Richmond

Leland D. Melvin inspires young people and encourages them to aspire to careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Lynchburg

Claudia Alexander Whitworth has worked diligently over the decades to improve the quality of life in Roanoke.

Roanoke

John Cephas has become a world ambassador representing the Virginia Piedmont Blues tradition.

Caroline County

Edna Lewis created nationwide interest in southern cuisine and demonstrated that food could be more than just nourishment, but also a celebration of life.

Orange County

Claudia Emerson received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and is Virginia's poet laureate.

Fredericksburg