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National Cowgirl

The artists, ranchers, rodeo champions, activists, and trailblazers who shape the West.

2026 Honorees

Cherie DeVaux

Laura Kraut

Kenda Lenseigne

A woman in a white blouse and a black skirt with white designs stands smiling by a window, resting one hand on her hip in a stylish, modern room with yellow seating and decorative pillows.

Lela Rose

Lisa Sorrell

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, M.D.

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Champions & Competitive Performers

Portrait of an older woman in a white cowboy hat, blazer, and ruffled blouse, looking slightly to the right in a studio portrait.

Billie Hinson McBride

Young girl wearing a straw cowboy hat and braided pigtails, smiling outdoors in a vintage photo

Ann Lewis

Black-and-white portrait of a cowgirl in a wide-brimmed hat and fringed jacket, holding a coiled lasso, with 'Cowgirls Hall of Fame' script at the bottom.

Vera McGinnis (Farra)

Cowboy in a wide-brimmed hat stands on the saddle of a horse, twirling a lasso overhead.

Reba Perry Blakely

A woman wearing a white cowboy hat and neck scarf leads a light horse by the reins indoors, smiling at the animal.

Nancy Binford

Portrait of a smiling woman wearing a large wide-brim hat, satin blouse, and a bow tie in a vintage studio portrait, 1920s style.

Mary Parks

Smiling older woman wearing a white cowboy hat, scarf, and denim jacket in a black-and-white portrait.

Isora DeRacy Young

A cowboy in a white shirt and hat rides a horse through a dirt arena, navigating tires and vertical poles as obstacles.

Dora Waldrop

Portrait of a woman in a large white cowboy hat, braided hair, and a zebra-like patterned jacket, looking softly at the camera.

Wanda Harper Bush

Black-and-white portrait of a woman wearing a large, wide-brim hat, looking to the left.

Tad Lucas

Black-and-white portrait of a smiling woman wearing a wide-brim hat and satin blouse with a ribbon tie.

Margie Greenough Henson

Black-and-white portrait of a smiling woman wearing a wide-brimmed cowboy hat.

Karen Vold

Woman in western riding outfit with embroidered white pants stands beside a saddled horse, smiling and holding its bridle.

Faye Blesing

Portrait of Fannie Sperry-Steele riding a bucking horse at the Winnipeg Stampede, 1913; caption reads 'World's Champion Lady Bucking-Horse Rider.'

Fannie Sperry Steele

Female rider leans into a turn on a galloping horse as it rounds a barrel in a rodeo arena; stands of spectators in the background.

Mike Reid Settle (Higley)

Person in a hat rides a horse that is rearing in a snowy field, black-and-white photo

Sydna Yokley Woodyard

Smiling woman in a black cowboy hat with a blue band, blue vest, white ruffled blouse, seated with arms crossed on a chair back.

Rhonda Sedgwick Stearns

Trick rider standing on the back of a rearing horse in an open field, with a crowd watching in the background.

Lucille Mulhall

Horse rider clears a jump at a show jumping event, while a man in a hat watches nearby; wooden fence and shrubs form the obstacle.

Bernice Walsh McLaughlin

Woman riding a horse in a dusty rural landscape, tipping her hat toward the camera while smiling (vintage photo).

Margaret Owens

Portrait of an older woman wearing a large black hat and black-framed glasses, smiling, in a colorful patterned blouse and earrings.

Jewel Frost Duncan

Older man in a white cowboy hat sits on an adobe wall beside a doorway framed by hanging red chili peppers, in a desert setting.

Fern Sawyer

A rider in a light shirt and cap leans forward on a horse as it jumps over a barrel obstacle at a nighttime equestrian event.

Blanche Altizer Smith

Black-and-white photo of a row of saddles on stands outside a wooden building, with a young person in a cowboy hat standing among them.

Jackie Worthington

A porcelain figurine of a girl in a lavender dress hugging the neck of a white horse with gold-trimmed tack, set against a light blue glittery background.