Betty Skelton Frankman, A race car driver and aviator who established more records than any other person, she was the first woman inducted into the NASCAR International Automotive Hall of Fame.

Gladys Nichols Milton, Born at Caney Creek in southern Walton County, she became nationally known in the late 1970s, when she led a legislative fight for recognition of midwives as legitimate medical practitioners. The mother of seven, Milton safely delivered more than 2,000 babies.

Betty Mae Jumper, The first female chief of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, was born in South Florida’s Indiantown. She attended the Cherokee Indian School in North Carolina, and in 1949, became the first Seminole to earn a high school diploma.

Nikki Beare, was a founding member of the National, Florida, Dade County, and Capitol Women’s Political Caucuses, and helped found Florida NOW. She hosted the first radio talk show for women in Florida, ‘Women’s Powerline,’ for eight years, and founded the Women’s Almanac newspaper.

Sarah ‘Aunt Frances’ Brooks Pryor, was a Panhandle businesswoman and civic leader for three-quarters of a century. Born in an Okaloosa County log cabin, she rowed a boat to school. She was a teacher, the operator of a historic hotel, and postmaster of Fort Walton Beach. She was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1917 and served until 1943. A wife and mother, she also founded the Woman’s Club of Fort Walton Beach; as president, she worked for civic improvements such as mosquito and garbage control, the area’s first library, and its first medical facilities. Among her other activities, she preserved local Indian mounds and beautified roadways.

JoAnn Hardin Morgan, The first woman in launch control and later, in an executive position at the Kennedy Space Center, she was determined to be part of the exploration of space from girlhood. A Brevard County resident, she was born in Huntsville, Alabama and grew up in Florida, where she began working at Cape Canaveral on the day after graduating from Titusville High School.

Evelyn Stocking Crosslin, M.D., provided medical services in Volusia County for almost a half-century, especially to the poor. A Daytona Beach native and an African-American, she graduated from Bethune-Cookman College (which was founded by Hall of Fame member Mary McLeod Bethune).

Betty Castor, was the first woman elected to the Florida Cabinet and the first President Pro Tempore of the Florida Senate. Born in Glassboro, New Jersey, she graduated from Glassboro State College in 1963 and attended Teachers College of Columbia University, where she organized a drive to send learning materials to Uganda.

Marjorie Harris Carr, A nationally recognized environmentalist of Alachua County, founded the Florida Defenders of the Environment in 1969 and led the successful effort to stop construction of the Cross Florida Barge Canal. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she moved to Florida in 1918 with her family.

M. Athalie Range, A widowed mother of four small children, M. Athalie Range served as a president of local and county Parent Teacher Associations for 16 years, where she promoted equal rights in education for minorities.