CSW > Recognition and Awards > Women's Recognition Award > Previous Award Recipients

In 1997, the NH Commission on the Status of Women created the Annual Women’s Recognition Award. The award honors a New Hampshire woman who has brought honor and prestige to herself and to the state through her professional, civic, and/or personal accomplishments. The award is conferred each year in observance of Women’s Equality Day, August 26th, at the August meeting of the Governor and Executive Council. Past recipients of the award are:

 

1997 Sharon Cavanaugh, Laconia, Police Sergeant
1998 Rachel Stuart, Portsmouth, Executive Director, Women's Business Center
Grace Mattern, Northwood, Executive Director, NH Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
1999 Natalie Woodroofe, Littleton, Executive Director, Women's Rural Economic Network
2000 Sandra Hicks, Manchester, community activist, NAACP, Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, Greater Manchester Black Scholarship Foundation
2001 Liz Whaley, New Market, Oyster River HS teacher, women's studies initiator
2002 Eileen Phinney, Goffstown, Founder, Latin American Center
2003 Claire Houston, Exeter, Founder, Women Supporting Women Center
2004 Wendy Gladstone, Exeter, Pediatrician
2005 Kristann Moody, Barrington, Vice President, Orion Design Technologies
2006 Niki Miller, Manchester, Executive Director, NH Task Force on Women & Recovery
2007 JerriAnne Boggis, Milford, Founder, Director of the Harriet Wilson Project

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