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User:Tokyogirl79LVA/Virginian women

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Here is a list of Virginian women that I've discovered through my work with the Library of Virginia. Hopefully all of them can pass notability guidelines, but I'm aware that some of them may fall short of GNG. However, ideally we should be able to find some way to include them somewhere, if at all possible. I'm going to include some sourcing for them, but this is not an exhaustive list of sourcing since I wasn't always able to make as thorough a search as possible. I will also include some names for women who have articles but are woefully slim in details.

Given that there's been interest in some of these for Black History Month next year, I'm going to try to bold the names of African Americans in this list in case anyone wants to get a jump start on them.

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  • Odessa Pittard Bailey, first woman in Virginia to hold a judicial post higher than justice of the peace or county trial justice.
  • Sarah Ann Brock, also known as "Virginia Madison" (pseudonym) and also referred to occasionally as Sallie Brock Putnam. Author, whose work is still in print today.
  • Lucy Goode Brooks, a former slave that was integral in establishing the Friends’ Asylum for Colored Orphans, an orphanage for African-American children that was opened after the Civil War.

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  • Naomi Silverman Cohn, civic activist, cofounded the Virginia Women's Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations (later the Virginia Council on State Organizations)
  • Emily Couric, Senator (has an article but it's very, very brief)
  • Katherine Cabell Claiborne Cox, historian, was VP (elected and then permanently honorary) of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (Preservation Virginia) and president of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, organizations that helped save the John Marshall House (may not be notable enough for her own article, there's little out there)
  • Fanny Graves Crenshaw, Professor of Physical Education, Emerita at the University of Richmond, Director of Athletics, Westhampton College (not sure if she'd pass NPROF or not, which seems to be the main thing she may qualify for)

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  • Bertha Louise Douglass, attorney, civil rights activist, one of the first three black women to become an attorney in Virginia (finding sources for her will be hard)

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  • Nancy Hale, author, also served as the first female news reporter for the New York Times
  • Rachel Henderlite, the first woman ordained in the Presbyterian Church in the United States

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  • Georgeanna Seegar Jones, pioneer of in-vitro fertilization (has an article, but it's very light when you figure her accomplishments)
  • Thomasina Jordan, Native American civil rights activist (article needs improvement)

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  • Amaza Lee Meredith, architect, educator and artist (has an article but could be expanded?)
  • Jane Minor, also known as Gensey Snow, healer and emancipator

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  • Isabel Wood Rogers, Presbyterian educator and lay leader (possibly nn enough for Wikipedia)

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  • Sandra Treadway, historian, author, current State Librarian, State Archivist, and State Coordinator

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