Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame

The CWHF had its beginnings in 1993 when a group of volunteers partnered with Hartford College for Women to establish an organization to honor distinguished contributions by female role models associated with Connecticut.

Artist Laura Wheeler Waring, who found fame by creating portraits of prominent African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance, was added in 1997.

African American opera divas are on the list, Marian Anderson in 1994 and Rosa Ponselle in 1998.

Ambassador, politician and playwright Clare Boothe Luce's 1994 appearance on the list was later joined by 19th century free black woman journalist Maria W. Stewart in 2001 and by war correspondent and human rights activist Jane Hamilton-Merritt in 1999.

In 2008, the list gained Nobel Prize in Medicine winner, geneticist Barbara McClintock.