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1980s Hall of Fame Honorees

tag cloud 1980s
Please note that the table below includes year inducted, fields, locality, and ethnicity.
Year Name Field Additional Field Locality
 Ethnicity
'89 Bertha
Sheppard
Adkins

educator activist public servant

Education Government
& Public Service		 Talbot
County		 European American
'87 Clara
Barton

activist nurse administrator

Community Service
& Volunteers		 Civil Rights
& Social Equality		 Montgomery
County		 European American
'85 Margaret
Brent		 Women's Rights
& Feminism		 Business, Industry,
& Finance		 St. Mary's
County		 European American
'85 Rachel
Carson 		Science, Technology,
Engineering,
& Mathematics		 Montgomery
County		 European American
'89 Eugenie
Clark, Ph.D.

educator scientist

Science, Technology,
Engineering,
& Mathematics		 Prince
George's
County		 Anne Arundel County
'85 Rita C.
Davidson 		Law & the Courts Montgomery
County		 European American
'89 Lavinia
Margaret
Engle 		Women's Rights
& Feminism		 Government &
Public Service		 Montgomery
County		 European American
'87 Frances
Ellen
Watkins
Harper

abolitionist orator poet novelist

 Liberal Arts, History,
& Social Sciences		 Civil Rights
& Social Equality		 Baltimore
City		 African American
'86 Lillie
Carroll
Jackson

NAACP leader civil rights leader

 Education Civil Rights &
Social Equality		 Baltimore
City		 African American
'89 Lena
King Lee

educator public servant lawyer

Government
& Public Service		 Education Baltimore
City		 African American
'88 Barbara
Ann
Mikulski 		Government
& Public Service		 Education Baltimore
City		 European American
'88 Sadie
Kneller
Miller

photojournalist writer

 Communication
& Journalism 		Carroll
County,
Baltimore
County		 European American
'87 Juanita
Jackson
Mitchell

activist educator NAACP leader

 Law & the Courts Civil Rights
& Social Equality		 Baltimore
City		 African American
'89 Estelle R.
Ramey, Ph.D.

feminist educator researcher activist

 Medicine & Health Education Montgomery
County		 European American
'88 Mary
Eliza
Risteau

activist lawyer public servant state senator

 Government
& Public Service		 Education Harford
county
Baltimore
County
'85 Gladys
Noon
Spellman

public servant educator congresswoman

Government
& Public Service		 Prince
George's
County		 European American
'86 St. Elizabeth
Ann Seton

catholic canonized

Religion Community Service
& Volunteers		 Baltimore
City		 European American
'87 Mary
Shaw
Shorb, Ph.D.

scientist researcher

Science, Technology,
Engineering,
& Mathematics		 Baltimore
City
Prince
George's
County		 European American
'86 Henrietta
Szold

writer scholar educator humanitarian administrator jewish

 Education Religion Baltimore
City		 European American
'87 Helen
Brooke
Taussig, M.D.

physician educator awarded the Medal of Freedom

 Medicine & Health Baltimore
City		 European American
'88 Martha
Carey
Thomas

educator feminist activist

 Education Women's Rights
& Feminism		 Baltimore
City		 European American
'85 Harriet Ross
Tubman

slave nurse spy military planner abolitionist

 Civil Rights
& Social Equality		 Human Rights Dorchester
County		 African American
'88 Verda
Freeman
Welcome

activist state delegate educator public servant

 Government
& Public Service		 Baltimore
City		 African American
'86 Jeannette
Rosner
Wolman

lawyer public servant

 Law & the Courts Government
& Public Service		 Baltimore
City		 European American
'86 Hiltgunt
Margret
Zassenhaus,
M.D.

physician administrator nobel prize nominated

 Human Rights Medicine & Health Baltimore
City		 European American