Seven women, including Mecklenburg commissioners Chair Jennifer Roberts, will be inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame next month.

Delores Johnson Hurt, one of the first African Americans accepted as an undergraduate student at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, also will be inducted.

The hall of fame was created in 2000 to celebrate Charlotte-Mecklenburg women who have “blazed trails, broken barriers, and initiated programs that have significantly impacted the community.” Past inductees include state lawmakers Becky Carney, Ruth Samuelson and Beverly Earle; community leader Sarah Stevenson and former Charlotte City Council member Susan Burgess.

Roberts is serving her third term as a Mecklenburg commissioner. She was executive director of the Charlotte World Affairs Council from 1997 until 2002 and is currently an adjunct professor in the International Studies Department at UNC-Charlotte.

Hurt was one of two African Americans admitted to the formerly all-white Winthrop College as undergraduate students in 1964. She has worked as a journalist, an entrepreneur and as a teacher in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

Other 2001 inductees include: Girls on the Run Founder Molly Barker; pediatric eye surgeon Dr. Buhilda McGriff; athletics leader Judith W. Rose; civic/community leader Mary Gill, and businesswoman/hat designer Ellen Floyd Johnson.

The Women’s Hall of Fame is sponsored by the Charlotte chapter of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs and the Levine Museum of the New South.

The induction ceremony will be held March 25 at 5:30 p.m. in the Levine museum. Ticket are $15.

For more information, contact: Dr. Carlether Burwell, 704-455-7205 or cburwell@carolina.rr.com.

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