All Past Pioneers (by name)

Names are listed alphabetically by last name. The year each pioneer received her award is listed after their name.

Sandra 'Captain Sandy' Anderson (2005)

Anne Bridge Baddour (2005)

Mary Barr (2001)

Colleen C. Barrett (2005)

Trish Beckman (2010)

Olive Ann Beech (1994)

Fran Bera (2006)

Rosella Bjornson (2004)

Priscilla Blum (2015)

Lt. Col. Karen Fuller Brannen (2013)

Maj. Deanna 'Dee' Brasseur (2007)

Bonnie Tiburzi Caputo (2018)

Leanne Caret (2019)

Ann Baumgartner Carl (2001)

Dr. Peggy Chabrian (2011)

Katherine Cheung (2000)

Capt. Julie E. Clark (2002)

Jerrie Cobb (2000)

Jacqueline Cochran (2009)

Bessie Coleman (1995)

Lt. Col. Eileen Collins (1995)

Ann Lewis Cooper (2004)

Vice Admiral Vivien Crea (2010)

Iris Cummings Critchell (2007)

Dr. Nancy J. Currie (2014)

Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann (2010)

Fiorenza De Bernardi (2002)

Lorna deBlicquy (1996)

L. Tammy Duckworth (2011)

Amelia Earhart (1997)

Arlene Elliott (1999)

Mary Feik (1994)

Arlene B. Feldman (2004)

The First Class of Women Naval Aviators (2017)

The First Women of U.S. Coast Guard Aviation (2019)

The First Women’s National Air Derby Pilots (2012)

Kathleen Fox (2018)

Wally Funk (1995)

Elizabeth "Betty" Everts Greene (2017)

Lt. Gen. Stayce Harris (2017)

Bernice 'Bee' Falk Haydu (2012)

Gloria Heath (1999)

Lt. Gen. Susan J. Helms (2011)

Jeanne Holm (2006)

Nancy Hopkins (1993)

Jean Ross Howard (1995)

Marion P. Jayne (2000)

Nadine Jeppesen (1995)

Amy Johnson (2016)

Evelyn Bryan Johnson (1994)

Loretta Jones (1998)

Galina Gavrilovna Korchuganova (2006)

Moya Olsen Lear (1992)

Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt (2020)

Hazel Ying Lee (2011)

Nelda Lee (2004)

Dorothy 'Dot' Swain Lewis (2004)

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1999)

Doris Lockness (2002)

Barbara Erickson London (2005)

Nancy Harkness Love (2008)

Elizabeth 'Elsie' MacGill (2012)

Mary Magdalene 'Maggie' Maga (2012)

Nicole Malachowski (2008)

Patricia 'Mother' Malone (2009)

Beryl Markham (2014)

Marie Marvingt (2007)

June D. Maule (1999)

Brig. Gen. Linda K. McTague (2018)

Mercury 13 'The Fellow Lady Astronaut Trainees' (FLATs) (1996)

Alice du Pont Mills (2010)

Geraldine 'Jerrie' Mock (2008)

Major General Betty Mullis (2006)

Navy Women Navigators of WWII (WAVES) (1997)

Ruth Nichols (2009)

Phoebe Omlie (2015)

Deanie Parrish (2015)

Nancy Parrish (2015)

Elizabeth 'Betty' Pfister (2001)

Audrey Poberezny (1996)

Harriet Quimby (1998)

Dr. Sally K. Ride (2014)

Margaret Ringenberg (2008)

Lt. Cmdr. Brenda E. Robinson (2016)

Blanche Stuart Scott (2002)

Sheila Scott (2014)

Dawn Seymour (2009)

Mary Frances Silitch (2013)

Betty Skelton Frankman (1997)

Elinor Smith (2001)

Jacqueline L. Smith (1998)

Kathy Sullivan (2010)

Louise McPhetridge Thaden (2000)

Anna Timofeyeva-Yegorova (2009)

Evelyn 'Bobbi' Trout (1993)

UPT Class 77-08 (2016)

U.S. Army's First Women Rotary Wing Aviators (2020)

The WAI Founding Board of Directors (2013)

Patricia "Patty" Jean Wagner (2020)

Patty Wagstaff (1997)

Emily Howell Warner (1992)

Florene Miller Watson (2005)

Fay Gillis Wells (1992)

The Whirly-Girls, Inc. (1998)

Edna Gardner Whyte (1992)

Dr. Sheila Widnall (1996)

Betty Jane 'BJ' Williams (2006)

Gen. Janet C. Wolfenbarger (2016)

The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) (1993)

The Women's Section of the Air Transport Auxiliary (2008)

Jessie Woods (1994)

Mary Anna "Marty" Martin Wyall (2011)

Jeana Yeager (1992)

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