2018
| Rev. Deborah Pope-Lance and Rev. Gail Seavey for their prophetic persistence that has kept the issue of clergy sexual misconduct within Unitarian Universalism in the public consciousness
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2016 | Monica Simpson of Sister Song and Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood |
2013 | Kay Montgomery, UUA Executive Vice President 1985-2013, for bringing feminist process into UUA leadership |
2011 | Rev. Debra Haffner, founder and executive director of the Religious Institute for Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing |
2010 | Dr. Cynthia Grant Tucker, author of Prophetic Sisterhood: Liberal Religious Women of the Frontier, 1880-1930 |
2007 | Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade |
2006 | Rev. Shirley Ranck, Ph.D., author of the ground-breaking adult religious education curriculum, Cakes for the Queen of Heaven |
2005 | Sarah Weddington, lead attorney in Roe v Wade, and women from the Alliance of the First Unitarian Church of Dallas, who supported Sarah during the early days of the case |
2002 | Saira Shah, freelance journalist and documentarian, for her production Inside Afghanistan: Beneath the Veil |
2001 | Rev. Dr. Roberta Nelson, distinguished religious educator
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2000 | Founders of the Ministry to Women Award
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1999 | The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
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1998 | Lucile Schuck Longview and Rosemary Matson, initiator and implementor of the 1977 UUA Women and Religion Resolution
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1997 | Carolyn McDade, songwriter and activist
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1996 | New Moon Magazine
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1995 | Rev. Marie Fortune, founder and executive director of the National Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence
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1994 | Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder and artistic director of Sweet Honey in the Rock
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1992 | Studio D of the National Film Board of Canada
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1991 | National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
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1990 | Planned Parenthood of America, Inc.
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1989 | Women of the UU Service Committee, in honor of the UUSC’s 50th Anniversary
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1987 | Dr. Jean Baker Miller, psychologist and author
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1986 | Justine Merrit, founder of The Ribbon peace project
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1985 | Women in the Pews (UU Laywomen)
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1984 | Marian Wright Edelman, founder, Children’s Defense Fund
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1983 | Sarah McClendon, Washington, D.C.-based journalist
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1982 | May Sarton, author, poet, diarist, feminist
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1981 | Tish Sommers, pioneer advocate for the rights of older women and displaced homemakers
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1980 | Tillie Olsen, author |
1979 | Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights |
1978 | Lt. Governor Thelma Stovall of Kentucky, who vetoed the Kentucky legislature’s bill to rescind their Equal Rights Amendment ratification vote |
1977 | Dr. Pauli Murray, lawyer and first black Episcopal woman priest |
1976 | Maggie Kuhn, founder of the Gray Panthers |
1975 | The first 11 women ordained as Episcopal priests |
1974 | Ms. Magazine |