New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame

The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame was established in 2011, by the YWCA of Trenton, in Trenton, New Jersey.

Inductions into the hall of fame occur at the Annual Induction Gala, which is held in the Spring. Each inductee receives the Gerber Daisy Award, created in 2011 by Boehm Porcelain, of Trenton, for the hall of fame. The inaugural class was inducted on March 31, 2011.

The YWCA of Trenton—sponsor of the hall—was founded in 1904, to empower women, eliminate racism, and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for everyone.

Criteria
See footnote
For each inductee's biography, see footnote
For photos of the induction gala, see footnote

Inductees
New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame
Name Image Birth–Death Year Area of achievement Ref(s)
Kim Guadagno (b. 1959) 2011 Lt. Governor of the State of New Jersey [1]
Mary Jo Abbondanza 2011 Executive Director of Health Promotions at St. Francis Medical Center [2]
Edith Savage-Jennings 2011 Civil-rights and women's rights [3]
Meta Griffith (d. 2010) 2011 Business woman, community activist [4]
Brenda Ross-Dulan 2011 Wells Fargo [5]
Christina Seix (b. 1950) 2011 Investment counselor, founder of Christina Seix Academy prep school for underserved kids [6]
Elise Tretola 2011 Founded a non-profit organization to serve the needs of people with disabilities [7]
Lynne Azarchi (b. 1963) 2012 Creator of Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum [8]
Mary Higgins Clark (b. 1927) 2012 Novelist [9]
Carmen M. Garcia 2012 Former Chief Judge of Trenton Municipal Court; member of the New Jersey State Patrol Board [10]
Lillian Harrington 2012 Sister Harrington is a member of the Religious Teachers Filippini and president of Villa Victoria Academy [11]
Anne LaBate 2012 Community volunteerism; president of Segal LaBate Commercial Real Estate [12]
Alice Paul (1885–1977) 2012 Women's Right Suffragist and author of the Equal Rights Amendment [13]
C. Vivian Stringer (b. 1948) 2012 Head coach of the Rutgers Women’s Basketball Team [14]
Lisa P. Jackson (b. 1962) 2013 Administrator of the U.S. EPA [15]
Amy B. Mansue 2013 President and CEO of Children's Specialized Hospital [16]
Becky Halstead (b. 1959) 2013 Retired United States Army Brigadier general; first woman graduate of United States Military Academy to rise to the rank of general officer [17]
Eleanor V. Horne 2013 Second Vice Chair to NNSTOY (National State Teachers of the Year) Board of Directors; community activist and retired Vice President of Educational Testing Service [18]
June Ballinger 2013 Executive Artistic Director, Passage Theater Company [19]
Gloria Bonilla-Santiago (b. 1954) 2013 Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor Rutgers University [20]
Mary G. Roebling (1905–1994) 2013 Chairwoman of National State Bank; first woman head of a national bank [21]
Beverly Richardson 2014 Vice President, Burlington County College [22]
Ivonne Diaz-Claisse 2014 President of HISPA (Hispanics Inspiring Students' Performance and Achievement) [23]
Mildred B. Gershen 2014 President and CEO of Moderate Income Management Company [24]
Hazel Gluck (b. 1934) 2014 Partner, MBI GluckShaw [25]
Kim C. Hanemann 2014 Vice President of Delivery Projects & Construction, PSE&G [26]
Nina D. Melker 2014 Sr. Vice President of Hopewell Valley Community Bank [27]
Etta Rudolf Denk 2015 Senior VP Bank of America New Jersey [28]
Jennifer A. Downing 2015 Chief Assistant Prosecutor Mercer County Prosecutor's Office [29]
Caren S. Franzini 2015 Financial/economic advisor, former Chief Executive Officer of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority [30]
Patricia A. Hartpence 2015 Assistant Vice President for Corporate Giving NJM Insurance Group [31]
Virginia Long (b. 1942) 2015 Legal counsel, retired justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey [32]
Sheila Gallagher-Montone 2015 Retired Times of Trenton publisher [33]

See also

Footnotes
  1. Harrison, Brigid (July 5, 2015). "Stepping out of the Shadows". The Record – via Questia (subscription required) . Retrieved December 28, 2015."Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno (Class of 2011) State of New Jersey". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  2. "Mary Jo Abbondanza (Class of 2011) St. Francis Medical Center". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  3. "Edith Savage-Jennings". Museum of Women's Resistance. Archived from the original on June 18, 2015. Retrieved December 27, 2015."Edith Savage Jennings (Class of 2011) Civil Rights Icon". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on 2016-01-07. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  4. "Meta Griffith posthumously (Class of 2011) Griffith Electric". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  5. "Brenda Ross-Dulan (Class of 2011) President of Wells Fargo Bank". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  6. "Christina Seix (Class of 2011) Christina Seix Academy". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  7. "Elise Tretola (Class of 2011) Allies, Inc". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  8. "Lynne Azarchi (Class of 2012) Executive Director Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  9. "Mary Higgins Clark (Class of 2012) World Renowned Author". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  10. "Carmen M. Garcia, Esq. (Class of 2012) Former Chief Judge Trenton Municipal Court". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  11. "Sr. Lillian Harrington, MPF (Class of 2012) President Villa victoria Academy". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  12. "Anne LaBate (Class of 2012) President Segal LaBate Commercial Real Estate". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on April 25, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  13. Fry, Amelia R. (Summer 1977). "Suffragist Alice Paul's Memoirs: Pros and Cons of Oral History". Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Women's Oral History. University of Nebraska Press. Vol. 2 (2): 82–86. JSTOR 3346017.
  14. "C. Vivian Stringer (Class of 2012) Head Coach Rutgers Women's Basketball". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  15. "Biography of Lisa P. Jackson". EPA. United States Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  16. "President's Message". Children's Specialized Hospital. Children's Specialized Hospital. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  17. McEntee, Marni (September 1, 2004). "Brigadier general in Germany is first female West Point grad to reach rank". Stars and Stripes. Stars and Stripes. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
  18. "Eleanor Horne". NNSTOY. NNSTOY. Archived from the original on January 25, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  19. "June Ballinger". Passage Theatre Company. Passage Theatre Company. Archived from the original on January 20, 2016. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  20. "Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, Ph.D". Rutgers. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
  21. "Mary Roebling, 89, First Woman To Head Major U.S. Bank, Dies". New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  22. "Dr. Beverly Richardson (Class of 2014) Vice President Burlington County College". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  23. "HISPA President and CEO". HISPA. HISPA.org. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015."Ivonne Diaz-Claisse, PhD (Class of 2014) President & CEO HISPA". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  24. "Mildred B. Gershen (Class of 2014) President & CEO Moderate Income Management Co. Inc". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  25. "Hazel Gluck (Class of 2014) Partner MBI GluckShaw". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  26. "Kim C. Hanemann (Class of 2014) Vice President – Delivery Projects and Construction Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G)". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  27. "Nina D. Melker (Class of 2014)". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  28. "Etta Rudolf Denk (Class of 2015) Senior Vice President – NJ Market Manager Corporate Social Responsibility / Market President Team Bank of America New Jersey". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  29. "Jennifer A. Downing, Esq. (Class of 2015) Chief Assistant Prosecutor Mercer County Prosecutor's Office". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  30. "Franzini Ends Productive and Respected Tenure". New Jersey Economic Development Authority. July 25, 2015. Retrieved December 28, 2015."Caren S. Franzini (Class of 2015) President Franzini Consulting, LLC". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  31. "Patricia A. Hartpence (Class of 2015) Assistant Vice President for Corporate Giving NJM Insurance Group". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  32. "Virginia Long biography". Fox Rothschild LLP. Fox Rothschild LLP. Retrieved December 28, 2015."Justice Virginia Long (Class of 2015) Counsel Fox Rothschild, LLP". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  33. Rojas, Christina (January 5, 2015). "Times of Trenton Publisher Sheila Gallagher-Montone announces retirement". nj.com. New Jersey On-Line LLC. Retrieved December 28, 2015."Sheila Gallagher-Montone (Class of 2015) Publisher (Retired effective 1/30/15) The Times of Trenton". The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame. YWCA Trenton. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.

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