Gillian Bowler

Irish businesswoman, chair of Fáilte Ireland, first chair of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the first female chair of an Irish banking institution, the Irish Life & Permanent.

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Ida Culver

Ida Culver was a Seattle Public Schools elementary teacher, a founding member of the Seattle Education Auxiliary and first president of the Seattle Teachers Finance Association. She was a shrewd investor who left a legacy of retirement homes for educators and their families.

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Jennie E Precker

Lawyer Jennie E. Precker (1892-1981) founded the Susan B. Anthony Building and Loan Association, the nation’s first women’s bank, in Newark.

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Mary Herbert Roebling

Mary Herbert Roebling (1905-1994) was the first woman to serve as head of a major commercial bank when she became president of the Trenton Trust in 1936.

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Lily Okamoto

A Hawai’i-born, politically active Sansei who was the first woman in the Islands to be both a certified public accountant and licensed attorney.

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