Award ceremony to be held on February 15, 2025, at the Stock

The San Joaquin County Commission on the Status of women will be celebrating ten county women on February 15, 2025, at the Stockton Hilton. The event is held each year on the birthday of Susan B. Anthony and the awarded women will receive a medallion that is known as the Susan B. Anthony Award.

This will be the 49th celebration and award. Begun in 1975, in honor of Tillie Lewis, the medal has been awarded yearly to ten women who have contributed to the community in one of sixteen ways. Since its inception, over 425 women have been honored.

The San Joaquin County Commission on the Status of Women, founded by Beverly Fitch McCarthy in 1975, sponsors the Susan B. Anthony Award to honor women who make significant changes to the community through their voluntary activities. Businesses, organizations, or individuals who recognize these women's work nominate them.

Beverly Fitch McCarthy observed that very little positive public recognition was given to women and their work in the community. So in 1975, which was the International Women’s Year, she established this award. Each year up to ten women are recognized. These women have been recognized in areas of Business, Community service, Creative Arts, Education, 

Government/ Politics, Health Care, Homemaking, Law and Legal Services, Labor and Employment, Media, Peace, Religion, Research, Science, Sports, Women’s Rights, Women’s Services.

Nominators provide evidence and endorsements for the nominees who then provide detailed information explaining their work in the community. From this nomination packet, a committee deliberates and selects ten individuals.

The San Joaquin County Commission on the Status of Women (SJCCSW) is in the process of reorganizing the work begun by Beverly Fitch McCarthy. Continuing with the Susan B. Anthony Award was most important to Beve McCarthy, and so throughout the re-organization, the banquet and honor are foremost.