1850s
Julia Elizabeth Christiansen Hoffman (30 mar 1856 – 30 nov 1934 | Manti UT – Portland OR) artist, arts patron, Arts and Crafts curator / teacher, eponym of Hoffman Gallery at OCAC, first person to walk across Willamette River Bridge, founded Arts and Crafts Society of Portland (later the Oregon College of Art and Craft)
1860s
Florence Prag Kahn (09 nov 1866 – 16 nov 1948 | Salt Lake City UT – San Francisco CA) educator, politician, first Jewish US Congresswoman
1870s
Maude Ewing Adams Kiskadden (01 nov 1875 – 17 jul 1953 | Salt Lake City UT – Tannersville NY) stage actress, lighting designer, drama teacher
1880s
Amelia Ford Porter Walton (25 jan 1883 – 08 mar 1973 | Centerville UT – Centerville UT) teacher, civic activist, Mormon, Daughters of Utah Pioneers member
Margrethe Mather (04 mar 1886 – 25 dec 1952 | Salt Lake City UT – Los Angeles CA) photographic artist, one of best known female photographers of early 20th c. but died unrecognized for her work
Aurania Rouverol (13 aug 1886 – 23 jun 1955 | Utah US – Palo Alto CA) playwright, created character Andy Hardy
Ethel Georgina Reynolds Smith (23 oct 1889 – 26 aug 1937 | Salt Lake City UT – Provo UT) early Mormon, member of upper echelon LDS family
1890s
Reva Beck Bosone (2 apr 1895 – 21 jul 1983 | American Fork UT – Vienna VA) judge, attorney, first elected female Representative from Utah
Natacha Rambova (19 jan 1897 – 05 jun 1966 | Salt Lake City UT – Pasadena CA) actress, ballerina, producer, playwright, memoirist, artistic director, screenwriter, set / costume / fashion designer, elite couture fashion shop owner, born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy
1900s
Ivy Baker Priest (07 sep 1905 – 23 jun 1975 | Kimberly UT – Santa Monica CA) memoirist, Treasurer of the United States, California State Treasurer
Esther Eggertsen Peterson (09 dec 1906 – 20 dec 1997 | Provo UT – Washington DC) memoirist, professor, organizer, women’s / consumer rights activist, US Assistant Secretary of Labor, Director of US Women’s Bureau
Helen Foster Snow (21 sep 1907 – 11 jan 1997 | Cedar City UT – Guilford CT) novelist, journalist, aka Nym Wales, short fiction writer, autobiographical author
Evelyn Nielsen Wood (08 jan 1909 – 26 aug 1995 | Logan UT – Tucson AZ) educator, businesswoman, speed reading expert
1910s
Loretta Gretchen Young (06 jan 1913 – 12 aug 2000 | Salt Lake City UT – Los Angeles CA) actress, memoirist, Catholic charities activist
Anna Thilda [May] Swenson (28 may 1913 – 04 dec 1989 | Logan UT – Bethany Beach MD) poet, translator, playwright, writer-in-residence, American Academy of Poets Chancellor
Fawn McKay Brodie (15 sep 1915 – 10 jan 1981 | Ogden UT – Santa Monica CA) author, biographer, psychohistory / psychobiography innovator, one of first female professors of history at UCLA [University of California Los Angeles]
1920s
Portia Nelson (27 may 1920 – 06 mar 2001 | Brigham City UT – New York NY) author, actress, singer-songwriter
Catherine Compton Fahringer (12 sep 1922 – 12 dec 2008 | Salt Lake City UT – San Antonio TX) writer, separation of church and state activist / advocate
Anne Pippin Burnett (10 oct 1925 – 22 apr 2017 | Salt Lake City UT – Kingston, Ontario) author, professor, Greek poetry scholar / translator
Lorna Jolley Kesterson (30 dec 1925 – 16 jan 2012 | St George UT – Las Vegas Valley NV) journalist, politician, newspaper editor / reporter, first female mayor in Henderson Nevada
Paula Fickes Hawkins (24 jan 1927 – 04 dec 2009 | Salt Lake City UT – Winter Park FL) author, politician, first / only female Florida State Senator, children’s welfare activist / legislator
1930s
Dwan Jacobsen Young (01 may 1931 – Salt Lake City UT) Mormon, LDS leader, incorporated Cub Scouting into LDS Church’s Primary
Bessie LaRae Orullian (13 may 1933 – Salt Lake City UT) banker, executive, women’s rights activist, member of the Velvet Hammer, former President of Girls Scouts of USA
Jeanette Callister Hales Beckham (07 jun 1933 – Springville UT) author, lecturer, state politician, tenth general president of Young Women organization of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mary Ellen Wood Smoot (19 aug 1933 – Ogden UT) author, LDS Relief Society leader
Marilyn Arnold (26 nov 1935 – Salt Lake City UT) LDS author, scholar, academic, hymnist, professor emerita
Elizabeth Wagele (31 may 1939 – 27 mar 2017 | Salt Lake City UT – Berkeley CA) artist, musician, essayist, cartoonist, Enneagram specialist, self-help / psychology nonfiction writer
1940s
Rebecca Brown Burton (14 feb 1940 – Salt Lake City UT) romance novelist, pen-name: Rebecca Winters
Carolyn Tanner Irish (14 apr 1940 – Salt Lake City UT) author, fourth female US Episcopal Bishop, retired Bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Utah
Michaelene Packer Grassli (19 jun 1940 – Salt Lake City UT) author, children’s writer, former general president of LDS Primary organization
Sandra McGee Tanner (14 jan 1941 – Salt Lake City UT) author, ex-Mormon, LDS historian, publisher, co-founder / head Utah Lighthouse Ministry
Cheryl Clark Lant (30 jan 1944 – Provo UT) LDS leader, teacher, preschool founder, phonics-based reading program innovator
Kathleen Hurst Hughes (19 oct 1944 – Tooele UT) LDS leader, educator
Susan Evans McCloud (28 jul 1945 – Utah US) poet, author, novelist, hymn writer, member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Sheryl Allen (30 jun 1946 – Salt Lake City UT) LDS / Mormon educator, politician, school district foundation director
Lois Thompson Bartholomew (27 apr 1947 – Payson UT) young adult adventure novelist, short story / magazine writer
Esther Weaver Hicks (05 mar 1948 – Coalville UT) author, inspirational speaker, focus on Abraham-Hicks law of attraction
Jill Carol Mulvay Derr (08 sep 1948 – Salt Lake City UT) author, Mormon, biographer, women’s historian
Heidi Hayes Jacobs (04 oct 1948 – Salt Lake City UT) author, educational leader, curriculum expert / reformer
1950s
Bonnie Lee Green Oscarson (23 oct 1950 – Salt Lake City UT) president of LDS Young Women’s Organization, first female member of LDS Church’s Missionary Executive Council
Vicki Fujii Matsumori (15 dec 1950 – Murray UT) journalist, LDS Church leader
Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans (18 jun 1951 – Salt Lake City UT) author, academic, Mormon feminist, planning and architecture professor, former president of Mormon History Association
Roseanna Cherri Barr (03 nov 1952 – Salt Lake City UT) writer, actress, comedian, politician, director, producer, medical marijuana proponent
MaryJane Butters (06 may 1953 – Utah US) author, organic farmer, environmental activist, entrepreneur, MaryJanesFarm magazine founding editor, grassroots self-sufficiency movement leader
Julie Bangerter Beck (29 sep 1954 – Granger UT) author, LDS leader
Pat Marie Gagnon (12 dec 1955 – Orem UT) singer, actress, aka Patti Miner, entrepreneur, nonfiction author
Marie Osmund (13 oct 1959 – Ogden UT) singer, actress, screenwriter, doll designer, music family matriarch