Orleana Hawks Puckett

Living in a rural mountain region with few doctors, Orleana Hawks Puckett became a midwife and successfully delivered more than 1,000 babies in her…
Christiana Burdett Campbell

Christiana Campbell became one of Williamsburg's most prominent and successful tavern keepers during the Revolutionary era.
Alice Jackson Stuart

By applying to the University of Virginia to pursue graduate studies, Alice Jackson challenged Virginia's laws of segregation.
Elizabeth Peet "Betty" McIntosh

As an intelligence agent with the Office of Strategic Services, Elizabeth Peet worked in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II.
Betty Sams Christian

A president of Central Coca-Cola Bottling Company for more than twenty years, Betty Sams Christian enriched her community through philanthropy.
Monica Beltran

As a result of her heroic actions while under attack in Iraq, Monica Beltran became the first woman in the Virginia National Guard to receive a Bronze…
Susie May Ames

Susie M. Ames's writings made major contributions to understanding the social and cultural life of seventeenth-century Virginia.