| 1937 | Agnes Regan | First Executive Secretary of the National Council of Catholic Women |
| 1938 | Mary Merrick | Founder & lifetime director of the National Christ Child Society |
| 1939 | Agnes Repplier | Essayist |
| 1940 | Jane M. Hoey | Director of the Public Assistance Bureau of the Social Security Board |
| 1941 | Anne O’Hare McCormick | Editor/reporter for The New York Times; first woman recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism, 1937 |
| 1942 | Anne Sarachon Hooley | President of the National Council of Catholic Women |
| 1943 | Rev. Mother M. Katherine Drexel | Founder and lifetime superior of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians & Colored People |
| 1944 | Helen C. White | American Assoc. of University Women President; American Assoc. of University Professors President |
| 1945 | Alleta Sullivan | Mother of five sons lost off Guadalcanal on the U.S.S. Juneau in World World War II |
| 1946 | Frances Parkinson Keys | Novelist and biographer |
| 1947 | Mary Theresa Norton | 1925-1951 United States Congresswoman from New Jersey; chairman of the House Committee on Labor |
| 1948 | Sister M. Madeleva, C.S.C. | Educator, author, poet; President of St. Mary’s College; President of the Catholic Poetry Society of America |
| 1950 | Loretta Young | Actress |
| 1951 | Anne Laughlin | Administrator of National Youth Administration, UN Relief & Rehabilitation Administration, and UNICEF |
| 1952 | Elizabeth Salmon | First woman President of American Catholic Philosophical Association |
| 1954 | Sister M. Ignatia, C.S.A. | First to cooperate with the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous in the hospitalization of alcoholics in 1939 |
| 1956 | Phyllis McGinley | 1 of 250 Americans elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters; 1961 Pulitzer Prize recipient |
| 1958 | Mary Harden Looram | Motion Picture Department of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae Chairman |
| 1960 | Mary Ellen Kelly | Immobolized arthritic who founded the League of Shut-In Sodalists |
| 1962 | Maria Augusta Trapp | Leader of the Trapp Family Singers |
| 1964 | Irene M. Auberlin | Founder and President of World Medical Relief, Inc |
| 1966 | Dorothy Julia Willman | Co-founder of the Summer Schools for the Christian Apostolate; Associate Editor of Directions magazine |
| 1968 | Rosemary Kilch | Women in Community Service, Inc President; Religious Heritage of America’s Churchwoman of the Year 1967 |
| 1976 | Hattie Larlham | Co-founder and former administrator of the Hattie Larlham Foundation |
| 1986 | Candy Lightner | Founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving |
| 1988 | Anne M. Burke | Court of Claims Judge for the State of Illinois; Founder and Director of the Special Olympics |
| 1990 | Helen Thomas | White House UPI Chief of Staff; White House Correspondents Association 1st woman member/president |
| 1992 | Eileen Stevens | Founder of C.H.U.C.K. (Committee to Halt Useless College Killings) |
| 1994 | Linda Caldwell Fuller | Co-founder of Habitat for Humanity International |
| 1996 | Nancy Goodman Brinker | Founder of The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation |
| 1998 | Barbara McKillip | Founder of The Libri Foundation, an organization dedicated to providing children’s books to rural libraries |
| 2000 | Kaye Redfield Jamison, Ph.D | Expert/advocate in the field of manic depressive illness |
| 2002 | Dr. Pamela Martin | Executive Director of Homeward Bound |
| 2004 | Susan Davenney Wyner | Acclaimed soprano soloist who became a top conductor in America after a serious accident |
| 2006 | Andrea Cooper | Mother who shares the story of her daughter’s rape and subsequent suicide with college students |
| 2008 | Diane Straub, M.D., M.P.H. | U.S. Paralympic team gold medalist and world record holder (1992, Barcelona; swimming) |
| 2010 | Emily Elizabeth Douglas | Founder of Grandma’s Gifts, Inc, in 1993, at the age of eleven, in memory of her grandmother, Norma Ackison |
| 2012 | Elizabeth Smart (Gilmour) | Activist for sexual predator legislation and the AMBER Alert system after her own kidnapping |
| 2014 | Rachel Simmons | Author of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls |
| 2016 | Terry Grahl | Founder and CEO of Enchanted Makeovers |
| 2018 | Ginny Carroll | Founder of Circle of Sisterhood |
| 2020 | Nikole Collins-Puri | Founder of TechBridge Girls |
| 2022 | Dolly Chugh | Award-winning professor at the New York University Stern School of Business and author |
| 2024 | Kristin Smedley | Kristin is an activist & educator about blindness being the mother of two blind children; she is dedicated to her nonprofit, thrivingblindacademy.org |
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