Four women were honored posthumously at the Iowa Women of Achievement Awards Luncheon at the Women Lead Change Central Iowa Conference on Tuesday. The award recognizes the contributions of historical Iowa women who made outstanding and lasting contributions to Iowans or advanced the well-being of others throughout the world. Honorees were Mary J. Whitely Coggeshall, a leader of the women’s suffrage movement in Iowa; Christine Grant, the first director of women’s athletics at the University of Iowa and a strong advocate for Title IX; Maria (Hai-Mecha Eunka) Pearson, an American Indian activist who was said to be the “founding mother of the modern Indian repatriation movement”; and LaMetta Wynn, who became the first Black woman mayor in Iowa when she was elected to be the mayor of Clinton in 1995. Honorees will have their names on the Women of Achievement Bridge.