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Sophia
Kindrick Alcorn
(Lincoln, 1883-1967)
Alcorn was a teacher of the deaf and blind who invented the
Tadoma method for teaching students to speak using vibrations
through the lips and mouth.
Nannie R. Catlett
(Caldwell, 1866-1931)
First elected as
County School Superintendent in 1897.
She later served as Kentucky State School Examiner and
published a semi-weekly newspaper, The
Princeton Banner.
Jane
Coomes (Nelson, n. d.)
Kentucky's first schoolteacher in 1776, she opened
Kentucky’s first school in Harrodsburg.
Allyson Hughes Handley (Scott, b. 1947)
Hughes was the first female president of Midway
College, Kentucky’s only
women’s college, in its 150 year history.
Belle
Mitchell Jackson (Boyle,
1848-1942)
The first
black teacher at Camp Nelson in Jessamine County and one of the
founders of the black Orphan Industrial Home in Lexington.
Helen Lew
Lang (Jefferson, b.
1926)
Founded
The Crane House in Louisville, an internationally recognized
center for learning about Chinese culture and Asian life.
Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd (Knott, 1876-1962)
Founded
Caney Creek Community Center, High School, and Junior College.
Caney Creek Junior College later became Alice Lloyd
College.
Katherine
Pettit (Harlan,
1868-1936)
Established
Pine Mountain Settlement School in 1913.
She found a Kansas City woman architect to design the
school that opened windows on young minds for decades.
Today it is an environmental education center.
Alice
Slone (Knott,
1904-1994)
Founded Lotts Creek Settlement School in 1933.
It is the only one of the 7 settlement schools still open
today—a testament to her philosophy of community involvement and
ownership.
Lucy
Harth Smith
(Fayette, 1884-1955)
One of the
only women presidents
of the Kentucky Negro Education Association, which ceased to exist
around 1960. She was
instrumental in creating a Black History curriculum.
Jane
Stephenson (Madison,
b. 1938)
Opened the New Opportunity School for Women in 1986 for
financially distressed, out-of-work women who have had little work
experience or traditional job skills. After a 3-week residency,
women leave with a sense of worth and the courage to face
opportunity and conflict.
Cora Wilson
Stewart
(Rowan,
1875-1958)
The first
woman president of the Kentucky Educational Association and the
founder of the Moonlight School Movement, an effort to fight adult
illiteracy.
May Stone
(Knott, 1867-1946)
Along with Katherine Pettit, Stone established Hindman
Settlement School in 1902. She
remained at Hindman, acting as principal, until 1936.
Addie
Talbott (Daviess,
1923-1999)
One of
Owensboro’s most respected teachers and community members, she
participated in the integration of Owensboro schools and served on
both local and state committees, such as the State Archives and
Records Commission and the Owensboro NAACP.
Julia Ann
Tevis (Shelby,
1799-1880)
Opened Science Hill Female Academy in 1825.
She directed the school for more than 50 years with a
philosophy that science and math were important for young women to
study.
Marie Roberts Turner (Breathitt, 1900-1984)
Succeeded her husband as the powerful Democratic
Superintendent of Schools in Breathitt County, serving from
1931-1969. During her career she abolished one-room schools.
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