Mildred Mitchell-Bateman
The first African-American woman to head a West Virginia state
government agency
Irene
Drukker Broh
Huntington suffragist and civic leader
Elizabeth Simpson Drewry
The first African-American woman elected to the West Virginia
Legislature
Anna
Maria Reeves Jarvis
The founder of Mothers' Day Work Clubs and the inspiration for
Mother's Day
Harriet B. Jones
The first woman in West Virginia to be licensed as a doctor and one
of the first women to be elected to the West Virginia
Legislature
Elizabeth Kee
The first woman from West Virginia to be elected to the United
States Congress
Lenna
Lowe Yost
One of the leaders of West Virginia's suffrage movement and the
first woman to chair a major political party national
convention