For the 37th year, Memphis and Shelby County women will be honored for changemaking leadership at the annual Women of Achievement awards and celebration of March National Women’s History Month. Eight local women will be celebrated from 3-6 pm on March 26 in a ceremony in the spacious sanctuary of First Congregational Church, 1000 Cooper. Bettye Boone, 2015 Woman of Achievement for Vision, and Kim Bearden, Elmwood Cemetery executive director, will host the awards ceremony. Celebrate women who stand up and speak out – to empower women, to protect women’s rights, to preserve farmland, to feed the hungry, to ordain women to preach and to grow equitable jobs and workplaces. Nominations for awards come from across the community; finalists are selected by WA members. Since the first celebration in 1985, 262 individual women plus the Yellow Fever martyrs, local suffragists and the women who save Overton Park have been honored. A three-volume book series captures the biographical essays and photographs of the WA honorees thru 2004. In addition, all essays and images are on the website womenofachievement.org Women of Achievement Ceremony 2023
