Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

​Mother Teresa

1999

• Rebecca Nabors

2000

• Dolores Huerta, Activist, United Farm Workers;
• Dr. Patricia Hatton, OB/GYN;
• Linda Tregle, Professor of Dance, Delta College;
• Paula Camp, CEO, Lincoln Village Academy.

2001

• Stephanie Guardino-Clark
• Beverly Foster
• Gladys Ikeda
• Hazel Jackson
• Janet Lilly
• Cecilia Moran
• Erma Peterson
• Dr. Margaret K. Williams

2002

• Ruby Barnes
• Louisa Birrueta
• Wilma Mae Blalock
• Carol N. Hadley
• Darleine Jones-Longmire
• Lelslie Baranco Martin
• Lois McDonald,
• Ellen Powell
• Wilma Okamoto-Vaughn
• Junior Women of Color Honorees:
• Ms. Andrea Lee, Bear Creek High School.

2003

• Robin Ashgar
  
• Ranya Haddad
  
• Clemmie Hunt-Owens
  
• Robin Lilly
  
• Dr. Cynthia L. Morgan
  
• Rose Sandoval
  
• Marian Williams
  
• Evelyn William-Ary
  
• Junior Women of Color Honorees:
• Celeste Trahan, Edison High School.

2004

• Ada Edith Brown
• Terri Duvall
• Dawn Goodwin
• Augustine V. De La Rosa 
• Patricia LLoyd
• Megham Elam
• Monique Amous Roe
• Yvette Shields
• Constance Smith
• Carolyn Walters
• Junior Women of Color Honorees:
• Meghan Elam

2005

• Amelia Adams
• La Juana Bivens
• D. Marilyn Fullard
• Linda Giles
• Patricia Munson
• Willie Mae Quinn
• Gloria Nomura
• Janie Burroughs Reddish
• Theresa Seward
• Evelyn Tolbert
• Junior Women of Color Honorees:
• Jordan Gilchrist
• Hoa Cao
• Qiana Amiad Moore
• Zephani N. Smith 

2006

• Thel Atterbury,
• Aeko Yoshikawa,
• Dr. Evia Briggs Moore,
• Shirley Washington,
• Shirley Andrews,
• Debra Sanders,
• Erma Young,
• Patricia Cunningham,
• Cynthia Summers,
• Georgia Bradford
• Junior Women of Color Honorees:
• Anayeli Fuentes
• Ashley Hampton
• Laretha Griffin
• Lawanna Griffin
• Natasha Vital
• Akitra Moore

2007

Essie Gilchrist
WOC Award Sacramento

• Ruby Austin
• Barbara Simmons
• Donna Glover
• Joyce Gross
• Cynthia Lau
• Donna Evans
• LaVenna Gray
• Marilyn Gayles
• Mariela DeLeon
• Deborah Watson
• Junior Women of Color Honorees:
• Aura Anderson
• Jasmine Johnson
• Brittney Danielle Stewart,
• Jessica Benitez
• Ashley Williams
• Amy Ha Cao

2008

• Emily Glover
• Rose Marie Gross
• Lerline Harmon Kelley
• Doris Neal Meacham
• Rachelle Mimms
• Pearl Moore
• Lela Chavez Nelson
• Fayette Reynolds
• Marie Easter Saunders
• Pricilla Silvery
• Junior Women of Color Honorees:
• Desiree Cook
• Arizona Gladney
• Safietou Sambou
• Gabrielle Martin

2009

• Shani Adams
• Linda Verdun Brown
• Alone Coffee
• Bertha Ford
• Valerie Frazier
• Kathy Langford
• Mae Ola Thompson
• Dr. Katie Peters Terrell
• Junior Women of Color Honorees:
• Jessica Dill Emerson
• Kyndal Mancho

2010

Commemorative Reunion

2011

• Pastor Barbara Bridges
• Debbie Ellison
• Mabel Jimi Choice
• Sherrie Gray
• Tama Brisbane
• Junior Women of Color Honorees:
• Vanessa Trample

2012

• Alicia Hugg
• Senator Cathleen Galgiani
• Geraldine Hollis
• Susan Eggman
• Kenneth Stevens
• Junior Women of Color Honorees:
• Destiny Croft
• Tyanna Dunn

2013

• Gloria Allen
• Juanita French
• Mateena Okanlawon
• Barbara Presley
• Jill Whitaker-Kohn
• Allet Williams
• Junior Women of Color Honorees:
• Efemah Files

Women of Color International Stockton
Partnership & Collaboration with
Stockton Women's Collaborative
 
2015
Nora Clipper
Wilhelmina Henry
Addie Smith

2015
​Essie Gilchrist (WOC International Stockton—Honored—SUSAN B. ANTHONY AWARD 

2016
Ella Holman
Pastor Barbara Bridges
Reverend Mary Mims-Butts
Pastor Geneva Haynes

2017
Honorable Lauren Thomason
Mae Hill
Occeletta Briggs
Tama Brisbane

2018
Deitra Kenoly
Kimberly Miller
Olga Rodriguez
La Tosha Walden

2019
La Juana Bivens
Marjorie Andi Burrise
First Lady Yvette Shields

2019 Keynote Speaker
Anna Nti-Asare-Tubbs (Book Three Mothers)
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2020 Keynote Speaker
Gwendolyn Daily (Dome of Hope)

2022
​Dr. Portia Jackson Preston
Dr. Lisa Cooper Wilkins

2023
​Paulette Amous-Gross
Dr. Patricia Hatton​

2024
D’Andrea Davie
Vena Ford
Tivoli Walker
Kimberley Warmsley

2025
Akkia Pride-Polk
Deborah Sullivan
Virginia Ward-Gorman
Dr. Mary J. Lorax Ghirarduzzi

For a LIST of Past & Youth HONOREES from 2014 to the Present Year, please contact us by email or phone.
Thank you!

​Email: [email protected] 
Tel @ 209-403-2811

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For Additional Youth Honorees from 2014 to Present Year - See Scholarship AWARDS