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YWC Citizens Laureate The YWC Citizen Laureate award recognizes exemplary service to the Louisville community. Since 1961, the Younger Woman's Club has recognized a distinguished array of Kentuckians for their commitment to our city. |
2018 Citizen laureate- Cissy Musselman
In 1993, Elaine "Cissy" Musselman gathered a group of women for lunch to celebrate her 50th birthday. During lunch, she shared with them a dream she had nurtured for years: to raise awareness of and money for the issues and needs affecting women and girls in our community.
This group of women professionals, community activists, and philanthropists committed themselves and their corporations to an all-women’s golf tournament in Louisville in order to raise money for women's causes. Before lunch was over, $17,000 was raised and Women 4 Women was born.
That year, more than $40,000 was raised to benefit organizations serving women victims of violence and Women 4 Women was born.
The mission of Women 4 Women is to improve the economic self-sufficiency of women and girls in our community through grantmaking and collaboration.
Past Citizens Laureate
2017 - Lara MacGregor, Hope Scarves
2016 - Kate Holwerk, Community Volunteer
2015 - Tori Murden McClure, Explorer, Author, and Spalding University President
2014 - Dawne Gee, WAVE3 Anchorwoman, Healthcare Advocate, and Philanthropist
2013 - Cynthia Knapek, Civic Leader
2012 - Cathe Dykstra, President and CEO of the Family Scholar House
2011 - Jane K Beshear, Philanthropist and First Lady of Kentucky
2010 - Lynnie Meyer, Civic Leader and Fundraiser
2009 - Carla Sue Broecker, Social Columnist and Philanthropist
2008 - Anne Northup, Congresswoman and Civic Leader
2007 - Judith A. Lambeth, President and CEO of Maryhurst
2006 - Rev. Tim Moseley, President and CEO of Wayside Christian Mission
2005 - Madeline Abramson, Philanthropist and First Lady of Louisville
2004 - Robert J. Mueller, Senior Director of Mission and Stewardship at Hosparus
2003 - Rev. Tracy Holladay, Executive Director of The Cabbage Patch
2002 - Judge Nick King, Former KY Supreme Court Justice and Philanthropist
2001 - Mrs. Sharon Cecil, Founder and Executive Director of We Survive
2000 - Mrs. Joan Blincoe, Philanthropist
1999 - Dr Will Ward
1998 - Jerry E. Abramson, Louisville Mayor
1997 - Moses Goldberg, Producing Director, Stage One: The Louisville Children's Theatre
1996 - Mrs. Nova Hensley
1995 - Mary C. Bingham, Civic Leader & Philanthropist
1994 - John V. Blalock
1993 - Lois Hensley Windhorst
1992 - Henry V. Heuser
1991 - Wilson W. Wyatt, Sr., Mayor of Louisville, Lt. Governor of KY, and Civic Leader
1990 - Stan Curtis
1989 - Rose Lenihan Rubel
1988 - Lawrence Otto
1987 - Edith McGinnis Breed
1986 - Alberta Wood Allen
1985 - Owsley B. Frazier, Philanthropist & Historian
1984 - Mrs Jef Fish Conner & Mr. C. Hunt Rounsavall
1983 - J. David Grissom
1982 - Phyllis Knight
1980 - David A. Jones
1979 - Mrs. Harry L. Vallandingham, Jr.
1978 - The Reverend Richard M. Humke
1977 - Major General Dillman H. Rash
1976 - Mrs. Cornelia Atherton Serpell
1975 - Dr. Harper E. Richey
1974 - Mr. & Mrs. William K. Ewing
1973 - Baylor Landrum, Jr.
1972 - Cornelius E. Hubbuch
1971 - Armin W. Willig
1970 - Miss Louise Marshall
1969 - Charles J. Vettiner
1968 - Mrs. Albert C. Dick, Jr.
1967 - Scott C. Detrick
1966 - Thomas Ballantine & Archibald Cochran
1965 - Mrs. James S. Tate
1964 - Dr. & Mrs. Arthur K. Keeney, Professors and Civic Leaders
1963 - Mrs. Dann C. Byck, President of Louisville Philharmonic
1962 - C.R. Graham
1961 - Robert S. Whitney, Founder and Conductor of the Louisville Opera