American Women in Religion

American Women in Religion

Betty Bone Schliess (1923-2017)

  • Led the successful effort to have women ordained priests in the Episcopal Church in America

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821)

  • First native-born American Saint

Rev. Doctor Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919)

  • Ordained minister, physician, ardent feminist—and first woman to earn the Distinguished Service Medal

Henrietta Szold (1860-1945)

  • Founder of Hadassah, American-born Jewish Zionist leader

Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)

  • The “traveling Preacher” and first African-American woman to speak publicly against slavery