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Nancy Wilson
Wilson in 1968
Born	Nancy Sue Wilson (1937-02-20)February 20, 1937 Chillicothe, Ohio, U.S.
Died	December 13, 2018(2018-12-13) (aged 81) Pioneertown, California, U.S.
Occupations	Singer actress
Years active	1956–2011
Spouses	Kenny Dennis (m. 1960; div. 1970) Wiley Burton (m. 1974; died 2008)
Children	3
Musical career
Genres	R&B soul pop jazz blues
Instrument	Vocals
Labels	MCG Jazz Capitol Sony Records Columbia Records Blue Note
Musical artist

Nancy Sue Wilson (February 20, 1937 – December 13, 2018) was an American singer whose career spanned over five decades, from the mid-1950s until her retirement in the early 2010s. She was especially notable for her single "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" and her version of the standard "Guess Who I Saw Today". Wilson recorded more than 70 albums and won three Grammy Awards for her work. During her performing career, Wilson was labeled a singer of blues, jazz, R&B, pop, and soul; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer". The title she preferred, however, was "song stylist". She received many nicknames including "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice".

Early life

Nancy Wilson was born on February 20, 1937, in Chillicothe, Ohio, to Olden Wilson, an iron foundry worker, and Lillian Ryan.

Wilson attended Burnside Heights Elementary School and developed her singing skills by participating in church choirs. She attended West High School in Columbus, Ohio where she won a talent contest and was rewarded with a role as a host for a local television show. She then went on to attend Ohio's Central State University where she pursued her B.A. degree in education.

Career

When Wilson met Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, he suggested she move to New York City for career opportunities. In 1959, she moved to New York to try to hire Adderley's manager and get a contract with Capitol Records. Within four weeks of her arrival in New York she got her first big break, a call to fill in for Irene Reid at "The Blue Morocco". The club booked Wilson on a permanent basis; she was singing four nights a week and working as a secretary for the New York Institute of Technology during the day. John Levy sent demos of "Guess Who I Saw Today", "Sometimes I'm Happy", and two other songs to Capitol. Capitol Records signed her in 1960.

Wilson's debut single, "Guess Who I Saw Today", was so successful that between April 1960 and July 1962 Capitol Records released five Nancy Wilson albums. Her first album, Like in Love, displayed her talent in Rhythm and Blues. Adderley suggested that she should steer away from her original pop style and gear her music toward jazz and ballads. In 1962, they collaborated, producing the album Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley, which propelled her to national prominence with the hit R&B song, "Save Your Love For Me", and Wilson would later appear on Adderley's live album In Person (1968). Between March 1964 and June 1965, four of Wilson's albums hit the Top 10 on Billboard's Top LPs chart. In 1963, "Tell Me The Truth" became her first truly major hit, leading up to her performance at the Coconut Grove in 1964 – the turning point of her career, garnering critical acclaim from coast to coast. TIME said of her, "She is, all at once, both cool and sweet, both singer and storyteller." In 1964 Wilson released what became her most successful hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am", which peaked at No. 11. From 1963 to 1971 Wilson logged 11 songs on the Hot 100, including two Christmas singles. However, "Face It Girl, It's Over" was the only remaining non-Christmas song to crack the Top 40 for Wilson (No. 29, in 1968).

After making numerous television guest appearances, Wilson eventually got her own series on NBC, The Nancy Wilson Show (1967–1968), which won an Emmy. Over the years she appeared on many popular television shows from I Spy (more or less playing herself as a Las Vegas singer in the 1966 episode "Lori", and a similar character in the 1973 episode "The Confession" of The F.B.I.), Room 222, Hawaii Five-O, Police Story, The Jack Paar Program, The Sammy Davis Jr. Show (1966), The Danny Kaye Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Kraft Music Hall, The Sinbad Show, The Cosby Show, The Andy Williams Show, The Carol Burnett Show, Soul Food, New York Undercover, and recently Moesha, and The Parkers. She also appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Tonight Show, The Arsenio Hall Show and The Flip Wilson Show. She was in the 1993 Robert Townsend's The Meteor Man and in the film, The Big Score. She also appeared on The Lou Rawls Parade of Stars and the March of Dimes Telethon.

She was signed by Capitol Records in the late 1970s and in an attempt to broaden her appeal she cut the album Life, Love and Harmony, an album of soulful, funky dance cuts that included the track "Sunshine", which was to become one of her most sought-after recordings (albeit among supporters of the rare soul scene with whom she would not usually register). In 1977 she recorded the theme song for The Last Dinosaur, a made-for-TV movie which opened in theaters in Japan.

In the 1980s, she recorded five albums for Japanese labels because she preferred recording live, and American labels frequently did not give her that option. She gained such wide popularity that she was selected as the winner of the annual Tokyo Song Festivals.

In 1982, Wilson recorded with Hank Jones and the Great Jazz Trio. In that same year she recorded with the Griffith Park Band whose members included Chick Corea and Joe Henderson. In 1987 she participated in a PBS show entitled Newport Jazz '87 as the singer of a jazz trio with John Williams and Roy McCurdy. In 1982, she also signed with CBS, her albums here including The Two of Us (1984), duets with Ramsey Lewis produced by Stanley Clarke; Forbidden Lover (1987), including the title-track duet with Carl Anderson; and A Lady with a Song, which became her 52nd album release in 1989. In 1989, Nancy Wilson in Concert played as a television special. In the early 1990s, Wilson recorded an album paying tribute to Johnny Mercer with co-producer Barry Manilow entitled With My Lover Beside Me. In this decade she also recorded two other albums, Love, Nancy and her sixtieth album If I Had My Way. In the late 1990s, she teamed up with MCG Jazz, a youth-education program of the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, nonprofit, minority-directed, arts and learning organization located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

In 1995, Wilson performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and the San Francisco Jazz Festival in 1997. In 1999, she hosted a show in honor of Ella Fitzgerald entitled Forever Ella on the A & E Network. All the proceeds from 2001's A Nancy Wilson Christmas went to support the work of MCG Jazz. Wilson was the host on NPR's Jazz Profiles, from 1996 to 2005. This series profiled the legends and legacy of jazz through music, interviews and commentary. Wilson and the program were the recipients of the George Foster Peabody Award in 2001. Wilson's second and third album with MCG Jazz, R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) (2005), and Turned to Blue (2007), both won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. On September 10, 2011, she performed on a public stage for the last time at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. According to Wilson, "I'm not going to be doing it anymore, and what better place to end it than where I started – in Ohio."

Awards

In 1964, Wilson won her first Grammy Award for the best rhythm and blues recording for the album How Glad I Am. She was featured as a "grand diva" of jazz in a 1992 edition of Essence. In the same year, she also received the Whitney Young Jr. Award from the Urban League. In 1998, she was a recipient of the Playboy Reader Poll Award for best jazz vocalist.

In 1986, she was dubbed the Global Entertainer of the Year by the World Conference of Mayors. She received an award from the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in 1993; the NAACP Image Award – Hall of Fame Award in 1998, and was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1999. She received the Trumpet Award for Outstanding Achievement in 1994. Wilson received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1990, at 6541 Hollywood Blvd. She received honorary degrees from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA and Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. She is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Wilson has a street named after her in her hometown of Chillicothe, Ohio. She co-founded the Nancy Wilson Foundation, which exposes inner-city children to the country. Wilson was the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships award in 2004, the highest honors that the United States government bestows upon jazz musicians. In 2005 she received the NAACP Image Awards for Best Recording Jazz Artist. She received the 2005 UNCF Trumpet Award celebrating African-American achievement, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the NAACP in Chicago, and Oprah Winfrey's Legends Award.

In September 2005, Wilson was inducted into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site. Wilson was a major figure in Civil Rights Movement. Wilson noted that the ceremony gave her "one of the best ceremonies that I've ever had in my life." Times.com, August 20, 2006: "It's been a long career for the polished Wilson, whose first albums appeared in the 1960s, and she faces that truth head-on in such numbers as 'These Golden Years' and 'I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up'. Shorter breathed these days, she can still summon a warm, rich sound and vividly tell a song's story. With a big band behind her in 'Taking a Chance on Love', she also shows there's plenty of fire in her autumnal mood". At the Hollywood Bowl, August 29, 2007, Wilson celebrated her 70th birthday with an all-star event hosted by Arsenio Hall. Ramsey Lewis and his trio performed "To Know Her Is To Love Her".

Life and death

Wilson and her first husband, drummer Kenny Dennis, were married in 1960. They had a son Kenneth ("Kacy") Dennis Jr., but by 1970, they had divorced.

On May 22, 1974, Wilson married Reverend Wiley Burton, a Presbyterian minister. They married within a month of their first meeting. She gave birth to Samantha Burton in 1975, and the couple adopted Sheryl Burton in 1976.

As a result of her marriage, she abstained from performing in various venues, such as supper clubs. For the following two decades, she successfully juggled her personal life and her career. In November 1998, both of her parents died; she called this year the most difficult of her life.

In August 2006, Wilson was hospitalized with anemia and potassium deficiency, and was on I.V. sustenance while undergoing a complete battery of tests. She was unable to attend the UNCF Evening of Stars Tribute to Aretha Franklin and had to cancel the engagement. All of her other engagements were on hold pending doctors' reports.

In March 2008, she was hospitalized for lung complications, recovered, and reported to be doing well. Later that year, her husband, Wiley Burton, died after suffering from renal cancer. On December 13, 2018, Wilson died after a long illness at her home in Pioneertown, California. She was 81 years old.

Grammy history

Career wins: 3
Career nominations: 7 (Note: In a 2007 interview, Wilson stated that she had been nominated more than 20 times. However, the Grammy Awards web site lists seven nominations for Wilson.)

Year	Category	Genre	Title	Label	Result
Nancy Wilson Grammy History (wins only)
2007	Best Jazz Vocal Album	Jazz	Turned to Blue	MCG Jazz	Winner
2005	Best Jazz Vocal Album	Jazz	R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal)	MCG Jazz	Winner
1965	Best Rhythm & Blues Recording	R&B	"How Glad I Am"	Capitol	Winner

Discography

Main article: Nancy Wilson discography

Like in Love (1959)
Something Wonderful (1960)
The Swingin's Mutual! (with George Shearing) (1961)
Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley (1962)
Broadway – My Way (1963)
Hollywood – My Way (1963)
Yesterday's Love Songs/Today's Blues (1964)
Today, Tomorrow, Forever (1964)
The Nancy Wilson Show! (1965)
Tender Loving Care (1966)
Lush Life (1967)
Welcome to My Love (1967)
Just For Now (1967)
Hurt So Bad (1969)
Can't Take My Eyes Off You (1970)
Now I'm a Woman (1970)
But Beautiful (1971)
I’ve Never Been to Me (1977)
Life, Love and Harmony (1979)
A Lady with a Song (1989)
With My Lover Beside Me (1991)
Love, Nancy (1994)
If I Had My Way (1997)
A Nancy Wilson Christmas (2001)
R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) (2004)
Turned to Blue (2006)

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1964	The Killers	Singer	uncredited
1983	The Big Score	Angie Hooks
1993	The Meteor Man	Mrs. Laws
2005	The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie	Herself

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1965	Burke's Law	Choo Choo	Episode: "Who Killed Wimbledon Hastings?"
1966	I Spy	Lori	Episode: Lori
1966–1967	The Red Skelton Show	Singer/Store Detective/Dr. Cagney	Episode: "The Bum Who Came in from the Cold" (1966) Episode: "Clothes Make the Bum" (1967)
1968	That's Life	Lillian Moore	Episode: "Bachelor Days" Episode: "How We Met"
1968	The Carol Burnett Show	Herself	Guest starring with Lucille Ball and Eddie Albert Guest starring with Mickey Rooney
1970	Room 222	Michelle Scott	Episode: "Play It Loose"
	The Carol Burnett Show	Herself	Guest starring with Nanette Fabray
	Hawaii Five-O	Eadie Jordan	Episode: "Trouble In Mind"
1972	O'Hara, U.S. Treasury	Poppy Grant	Episode: "Operation: Rake-Off"
1973	Search	Sugar Francis	Episode: "The Mattson Papers"
1973	The F.B.I.	Darlene Clark	Episode: "The Confession"
1974	Police Story	Kelly Craig	Episode: "World Full of Hurt"
1989	It's a Living	Ivy Reynolds	Episode: "The Ginger's Mother Show"
1989	The Cosby Show	Lorraine Kendall	Episode: Grampy and NuNu Visit the Huxtables"
1993–1994	The Sinbad Show	Louise Bryan	9 episodes
1995–1997	The Parent 'Hood'	Dr. Carolyn Plemmer/Elizabeth	Episode: "The Paw That Rocks the Cradle" (1995) Episode: "Mother and Law" (1997)
2001	The Parkers	Aunt Rita	Episode: "Family Ties and Lies"

DVD concert films

Nancy Wilson at Carnegie Hall (2001)
Great Women Singers of the 20th Century – Nancy Wilson (2005)

5. Ed Sullivan Show appearance

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External links

Nancy Wilson's website – Biography at the Wayback Machine (archived February 8, 2012)
Billboard Chart History for Nancy Wilson
Nancy Wilson at IMDb
NEA Jazz Masters: Nancy Wilson – Biography and Interview
Nancy Wilson at Find a Grave

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Studio albums	Like in Love Something Wonderful The Swingin's Mutual! Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley Broadway – My Way Hollywood – My Way Yesterday's Love Songs/Today's Blues Today, Tomorrow, Forever How Glad I Am A Touch of Today Tender Loving Care Nancy – Naturally Just for Now Lush Life Welcome to My Love Easy The Sound of Nancy Wilson Nancy Son of a Preacher Man Hurt So Bad Can't Take My Eyes Off You Now I'm a Woman But Beautiful Kaleidoscope I Know I Love Him All in Love Is Fair Come Get to This This Mother's Daughter The Two of Us Keep You Satisfied Forbidden Lover A Lady with a Song With My Lover Beside Me Love, Nancy If I Had My Way A Nancy Wilson Christmas R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) Turned to Blue
Live albums	The Nancy Wilson Show!
Compilation albums	The Best of Nancy Wilson
Songs	"(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" "Uptight (Everything's Alright) " "You've Got Your Troubles" "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" "She Called Me Baby" "Love Won't Let Me Wait" "I Can't Make You Love Me" "Slippin' into Darkness"
Related articles	Discography Jazz Profiles

Awards for Nancy Wilson

NAACP Image Award – Hall of Fame Award

Lena Horne / Ray Charles (1983)
Ella Fitzgerald / Marian Anderson / Gordon Parks / Alberta Hunter / Paul Robeson (1984)
Esther Rolle / Linda Hopkins (1987)
Marvin Gaye (1988)
Sammy Davis Jr. / Oprah Winfrey / Ossie Davis / Ruby Dee (1989)
Etta James (1990)
Four Tops / The O'Jays / The Temptations / The Dells (1992)
Carmen McRae and Jerry Butler (1993)
Earth, Wind & Fire (1994)
Richard Pryor (1996)
Aretha Franklin / George Clinton (1997)
Nancy Wilson / The Isley Brothers (1998)
Kathleen Battle (1999)
Sidney Poitier (2001)
Little Richard (2002)
Spike Lee (2003)
Ray Charles (2004)
Oprah Winfrey (2005)
Carlos Santana (2006)
Bill Cosby (2007)
Stevie Wonder (2008)
Clarence Avant (2009)
Eddie Murphy (2021)

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist

Count Basie (1980)
Al Jarreau (1983)
Miles Davis (1987)
Ella Fitzgerald (1988)
Miles Davis (1989)
Natalie Cole (1992)
Wynton Marsalis (1993)
Kenny G (1994)
Quincy Jones (1996)
Quincy Jones (1997)
Kenny G (1998)
Lena Horne (1999)
Quincy Jones (2000)
Grover Washington, Jr. (2001)
Quincy Jones (2002)
Natalie Cole (2003)
Ramsey Lewis (2004)
Nancy Wilson (2005)
Najee (2006)
Gladys Knight (2007)
Stanley Jordan (2011)

Ohio Women's Hall of Fame

1970–1979

1978	Florence E. Allen Helen Chatfield Black Frances Bolton Elizabeth Boyer Harriet Bracken Martha Kinney Cooper Gertrude Donahey Jane Edna Hunter Consolata Kline Virginia Kunkle Margaret A. Mahoney Helen Grace McClelland Agnes Merritt Rose Papier Lottie Randolph Ella P. Stewart Marigene Valiquette Ann B. Walker Stella Walsh Marion Wells
1979	Mary Jobe Akeley Mary Ann Bickerdyke Beatrice Cleveland Charity Edna Earley Eleanor Jammal Bernice Kochan Emily Leedy Ruth Lyons Jerrie Mock Emma Phaler Rachel Redinger Bobbie L. Sterne Ethel Swanbeck Clara Weisenborn Marjorie Whiteman

1980–1989

1980	Grace Berlin Erma Bombeck Patricia M. Byrne Ruth Crawford Louisa Fast Dorothy Fuldheim Lillian Gish Esther Greisheimer Edith Keller Tella Kitchen Blanche Krupansky Hattie Larlham Mary Louise Nemeth Annie Oakley Doris Martha Weber
1981	Mildred Bayer Tina Bischoff Lovin Dorothy Cornelius Doris Day Phyllis Diller Eusebia Hunkins Andre Norton Jean Starr Untermeyer Harriet Taylor Upton Nancy Wilson
1982	A. Margaret Boyd Ann Eriksson Bernice Foley Zelma Watson George Grace Goulder Izant Toni Morrison Phyllis Sewell Jayne Spain Helen Zelkowitz
1983	Harriet J. Anderson Ione Biggs Eula Bingham Mary O. Boyle Mariwyn Heath Josephine Irwin Barbara Janis Minnie Player Gloria Steinem Freda Winning Mary E. Miller Young
1984	Sally Cooper Sarah E. Harris Cindy Noble Hauserman Marcy Kaptur Karen Nussbaum Mary Rose Oakar Catherine Pinkerton Willa Beatrice Player Judith Resnik Helen Hooven Santmyer Marian Trimble Joyce Wollenberg
1985	Lois Anna Barr Cook Mercedes Cotner Zell Draz Barbara Easterling Nikki Giovanni Aurora Gonzalez Mary K. Lazarus Barbara Mandel Norma Marcere Helen Mulholland Lauretta Schimmoler Marge Schott Mary Jen Steinbrenner
1986	Margaret Andrew Kathleen L. Barber Fay Biles Elizabeth Blackwell Marie Clarke Eva Mae Crosby Ruby Dee Cynthia Drennan Hooker Glendinning Louise Herring Katherine LeVeque Ruth Ratner Miller Amelia Nava Arline Webb Pratt Anastasia Ann Przelomski Virginia Purdy Selma Lois Walker Julia Montgomery Walsh Faye Wattleton Mary Ellen Withrow
1988	Anna Biggins Patricia Clonch Norma Craden Jewel Freeman Graham Cathy Guisewite Rebecca D. Jackson Carol Heiss Jenkins Carol Kane Bea Larsen Alice Raful Lev Linda Rocker Sogg Eleanor Smeal Carolyn Utz Anita Smith Ward
1989	Jeanette Grasselli Brown Maxine Carnahan Tracy Chapman Betsy Mix Cowles Ann Gazelle Michelle Graves Florence Harshman June Hutt Geraldine Jensen Carolyn Mahoney Linda James Myers Jennie Porter Diane Poulton Renee Powell Charlene Spretnak Charlene Ventura

1990–1999

1990	Marilyn Gaston Dorothy Jackson Luella Talmadge Jackson Janet Kalven Rosabeth Kanter Maggie Kuhn Joan Lamson Maya Lin Anne Variano Macko Alicia Mott Ludel Sauvageot Fanchon bat-Lillian Shur Phebe Temperance Sutliff Grayce Williams
1991	Berenice Abbott Earladeen Badger Hallie Brown JoAnn Davidson Raquel Diaz-Sprague Rita Dove Mary Ignatia Gavin Sara J. Harper Donna Hawk June Holley Martha C. Moore Darlene Owens Helen H. Peterson Martha Pituch Yvonne Pointer Virginia Ruehlmann Josephine Schwarz Suzanne Timken Nancy Vertrone Bieniek Stella Marie Zannoni
1992	Mary of the Annunciation Beaumont Antoinette Eaton Rubie McCullough Nancy Oakley Harriet Parker Susan Porter Helen Steiner Rice Alice Schille Louella Thompson
1993	Mildred Benson Amelia Bingham Virginia Coffey Viola Famiano Colombi Ivy Gunter Virginia Hamilton Lucy Webb Hayes Joy Alice Hintz Geraldine Macelwane Anne O'Hare McCormick Rena Olshansky Edna Pincham Maxine Plummer Jean Reilly Pauline Riel
1994	Christine M. Cook Claudia Coulton Ellen Walker Craig-Jones Nanette Ferrall Jill Harms Griesse Georgia Griffith Florence Melton Lucille Nussdorfer Jane Reece Emma Ann Reynolds Carol Scott Paula Spence Deanna Tribe Lillian Wald
1995	Sandra Beckwith Daeida Hartell Wilcox Beveridge Patricia Ann Blackmon Mary Bowermaster Christine Brennan Joy Garrison Cauffman Bunny Cowan Clark Grace L. Drake Naomi J. Evans Frances Dana Gage Jane Kirkham Sylvia Lewis Tami Longaberger Donna Moon Gratia Murphy Alice Robie Resnick Muriel Siebert
1996	Carol Cartwright Elizabeth Evans Rae Natalie Prosser de Goodall Elizabeth Hauser Bernadine Healy Carol Kelly Fannie Lewis Betty Montgomery Hope Taft
1997	Carol Ball Marilyn Byers Jean Murrell Capers Martha Dorsey Joan Heidelberg Clarice Herbert Beatrice Lampkin Jacquelyn Mayer Townsend Ann O'Rourke Beryl Rothschild Thekla Shackelford
1998	Marianne Boggs Campbell Carole Garrison Nancy Hollister Stephanie J. Jones Bettye Ruth Kay Barbara Ross-Lee Audrey Mackiewicz Kathy Palasics Margaret Diane Quinn Henrietta Seiberling Mary Emily Taylor Virginia Varga Jacqueline Woods Nancy L. Zimpher
1999	Mary Jo Behrensmeyer Alvina Costilla Sarah Deal Electra Doren Daisy Flowers Annie Glenn Ann Hamilton Carole Hoover Cheryl Han Horn Carol Latham Nancy Linenkugel Marie Barrett Marsh Marjorie Parham Mary Regula Lee Lenore Rubin Harriet Beecher Stowe Jerry Sue Thornton Janet Voinovich

2000–2009

2000	Paige Palmer-Ashbaugh Maude Charles Collins Faye Dambrot Margarita De Leon Patricia Louise Fletcher Jean Patrice Harrington Shirley Hoffman Dorothy Kazel Farah Majidzadeh Ada Martin Lorle Porter Lanna Samaniego Yvonne Walker-Taylor Margaret W. Wong Betty Zane
2001	Rebecca Boreczky Frances Jennings Casement Ruth L. Davis Lucille Ford Susan F. Gray Kathleen V. Harrison Adella Prentiss Hughes Janet E. Jackson Dorothy Kamenshek Maxine Levin Irene D. Long Martha MacDonell Mary Andrew Matesich Elizabeth Powell Deborah Pryce Maria Sexton Farah Walters Georgeta Blebea Washington
2002	Judy Barker Frances Seiberling Buchholzer Joan Brown Campbell Nancy Frankenberg Zell Hart-Deming Elsie Helsel Katie T. Horstman Jennie Hwang Cathy Monroe Lewis Viola Startzman Robertson Stefanie Spielman Kathryn D. Sullivan
2003	Sheila G. Bailey Jeraldyne Kilborn Blunden Shannon K. Carter Luceille Fleming Olga González-Sanabria Elsie Janis Lois Lenski Ellen Mosley-Thompson Cathy Nelson Evlyn Gray Scott Yvonne Williams
2007	Margaret Brugler Rogers Julia Chatfield Lucille Hastings Lillie Howard Mary Ann Jorgenson Joyce "Snowfeather" Mahaney Rozella M. Schlotfeldt Katherine May Smith Florence Wang
2008	Dorothy Baunach Carrie Black Caro Bosca Yvette McGee Brown Loann Crane Joan Durgin Carol Gibbs Billie Johnson Jih-Fen Lei Elizabeth Stewart Magee Kasturi Rajadhyaksha Julie Salamon Michele G. Wheatly
2009	Gail Collins Pamela B. Davis Kim de Groh Beverly J. Gray Sharon Howard Carol Kuhre Virginia Manning Helen Moss Judith Rycus Mary Adelaide Sandusky Glenna Watson Bernett Williams Celia Williamson

2010–2019

2010	Alvarene Owens Gayle Channing Tenenbaum Dorothy Maguire Barbara Fergus Merle G. Kearns Rebecca J. Lee Nina McClelland Lana Moresky Martha Potter Otto Elizabeth Ruppert Rita Singh
2011	Cheryl A. Boyce Elizabeth H. Flick Frances Harper Brenda Hollis Mary C. Juhas Kleia R. Luckner Valerie J. Lyons Linda S. Noelker Carrie Vonderhaar

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