Voices from the Garden is the first monument of its kind in the nation recognizing the full range of women's achievements when a dozen life-sized statues of women find their place on the newly constructed plaza. The addition of these Virginians – representative of the state's regions, its 400-year history, and the diversity of achievement, ethnicity and thought that has made the Commonwealth what it is today – will complete the story of Virginia told at Capitol Square, and celebrate the importance of women in that history.

Voices from the Garden draws visitors into an oval forum to interact with the twelve women who await them. At the center stands a bronze sundial on a granite pedestal. Tempered glass panels, a metaphor for the social filter that has long obscured women's accomplishments from public view, provide space for the names of additional important women of history, with room to add the names of women of today and tomorrow.

The Need for a Tribute:

From the Founding of the Commonwealth, the genius and creativity of women and their presence and contributions have been evident in every aspect of Virginia history and the life of people in the Commonwealth; however, they have received little appreciation, recognition, or official acknowledgement. 

The Purpose of the Monument is History, Education, Importance, Appreciation

• Monument to Virginia Women that signals the importance of their contributions and achievements
• Honors them and expresses appreciation
• Teaches the history of their important contributions

The Monument is to Honor: Virginia Women who Contributed to Virginia's History Over Four Centuries, Through Individual, Collective and/or Symbolic Interpretations That May Include:

• Their ideals, visions and spirit of sacrifice that illuminates the path today for all those who follow them
• Their accomplishments in spite of restrictions
• Their legendary achievements in many fields
• Their noble and heroic deeds indispensible to the founding of the Commonwealth (and the nation)
• Their vital role in public and private life 
• Their unique contributions in nurturing and protecting their families and contributing to the quality of life in their communities

The twelve women chosen to be depicted as bronze statues in the Virginia Women's Monument represent women from all corners of the Commonwealth, both widely-celebrated women, as well as those with previously unknown, but equally important, stories. The names of the memorialized women are as follows.

Anne Burras Laydon

Cockacoeske

Mary Draper Ingles

Martha Washington

Clementina Rind

Elizabeth Keckly

Sally L. Tompkins

Maggie L. Walker

Sarah G. Jones

Laura S. Copenhaver

Virginia E. Randolph

Adèle Clark

In addition, the names of 230 Virginia women are inscribed on the monument's glass Wall of Honor. The names inscribed on Voices from the Garden: The Virginia Women's Monument's Wall of Honor are as follows.

Em Bowles Locker Alsop

Pocahontas (Matoaka)

Anne Burras Laydon

Cockacoeske

Martha Washington

Mary Draper Ingles

Clementina Rind 

Elizabeth Keckly

Sally L. Tompkins

Maggie L. Walker

Sarah G. Jones

Laura S. Copenhaver

Virginia E. Randolph

Adèle Clark

Pauline F. Adams

Mollie Adams

Lucy Addison

Mary Aggie 

Ella G. Agnew

Mary C. Alexander

Sharifa Alkhateeb

Susie M. Ames

Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson

V. C. Andrews

Orie Moon Andrews

Ann (Pamunkey chief)

Grace Arents

Nancy Astor 

Addie D. Atkinson

Anne Bailey

Odessa P. Bailey

Mary Julia Baldwin

Lucy Barbour

Hazel K. Barger

Janie Porter Barrett 

Kate Waller Barrett

M. Majella Berg

Frances Berkeley

Ann Bignall

Aline E. Black

Mary Blackford

Catherine Blaikley

Florence A. Blanchfield

Anna Bland

Cynthia Boatwright

Elisabeth S. Bocock

Anna W. Bodeker

Carrie J. Bolden

Mary Marshall Bolling

Matilda M. Booker

Gladys Boone

Dorothy Rouse Bottom

Geline MacDonald Bowman

Mary Richards Bowser

Rosa D. Bowser

Belle Boyd

Sarah Patton Boyle

Mildred Bradshaw

Lucy Goode Brooks 

Belle S. Bryan

Mary E. Brydon

Annabel Morris Buchanan 

Dorothea D. Buck

Pattie Buford

Evelyn T. Butts

Mary Willing Byrd

Sadie Heath Cabaniss

Mary Virginia Ellet Cabell

Willie Walker Caldwell

Edith Lindeman Calisch

Christiana Campbell

Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell

Eliza J. Carrington

Maybelle Carter

Sara Carter

Virginia Cary

Ruth Harvey Charity

Jean Outland Chrysler

Patsy Cline

Matty L. Cocke

Sarah Johnson Cocke

Naomi S. Cohn

Cynthia B. T. Coleman

Edna M. Colson

Esther I. Cooper

Hannah Lee Corbin

Ann Cotton

Lucy Ann Cox

Daphne Dailey

Margaret Dashiell

Jo Ann Davis

Grace E. Davis

Jennie Dean

Helen Dewar

Emily W. Dinwiddie

Claudia Dodson

Bertha L. Douglass

M. Estelle Eley

Virginia Randolph Ellett 

Margaret Erskine

Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans

Sarah Lee Fain

Lillie Fearnow

Rachel Findlay

Edith Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald

Eve D. Fout

Ethel Bailey Furman

Elizabeth Furness

Mary Jeffery Galt

Charlotte C. Giesen

Ellen Glasgow

Meta Glass

Thelma Young Gordon

Nancy Hale

India Hamilton

Dorothy Hamm

Marion Harland

Laura Jane Harper 

Jean Harris

Orie Latham Hatcher

Della I. Hayden

Mary Rice Hayes-Allen

Sally Hemings

Rachel Henderlite

Helen T. Henderson

Susanne Hirt

Ann Makemie Holden

Judith Hope

Grace Hopper

Nora Houston

Mary W. Jackson

Annabella R. Jenkins

Kate Jeter

Florence Jodzies

Barbara Johns

Julia Johns

Mary Johnston

Mary Johnston-Brittain

Georgeanna Jones

Thomasina E. Jordan

Ona Judge

May L. Keller

Emma V. Kelley

Christine Herter Kendall

Lucille Chaffin Kent 

Elizabeth Key

Ellen G. Kidd

Alice Kyle

Henrietta Lacks

Anna Maria Lane

Orra Langhorne

Irene Leache

Edna Lewis

Elizabeth D. Lewis

Matilda Lindsay

Judith Lomax

Rebecca Lovenstein

Louise O'Connor Lucas

Mary Tyler Cheek McClenahan

Dorothy S. McDiarmid

Sarah Madden

Dolley Madison

Pauline F. Maloney

Miriam D. Mann

Bessie N. Marshall

Lucy Randolph Mason

Vivian Carter Mason

Amaza Lee Meredith

Alice duPont Mills

Jane Minor

Nannie J. Minor

Lottie Moon

Undine Smith Moore

Georgia Weston Morgan

Irene Morgan

Mary-Cooke Branch Munford

Elizabeth Nottingham

Opossunoquonuske 

Elizabeth L. Otey

Mary Morton Parsons

Nina K. Peace

Mary Peake

Rebekah Peterkin

Marian Poe

Theresa Pollak

Amelia E. P. Pride

Orleana Puckett

Caroline F. Putnam

Mary Randolph

Jessie M. Rattley

Eudora Ramsay Richardson

Isabel Rogers

Wané Roonseraw

Dorothy Roy

Elizabeth Russell

Nellie Pratt Russell

Marion duPont Scott

Mary Wingfield Scott

Eleanor P. Sheppard

Grace Sherwood

Catherine Filene Shouse

Henrietta Shuck

Jean Skipwith

Isabel Dodge Sloane

Louise J. Smith

Anne Spencer

Elizabeth Allen Smith

Annie Snyder

Ora B. Stokes

Kathryn H. Stone

Queena Stovall

Mary C. Stowers

Alice Jackson Stuart

Kate Peters Sturgill

Evelyn Reid Syphax

Elizabeth N. Tompkins

Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy

Lucile Barrow Turner

Lila Meade Valentine

Elizabeth Van Lew

Mary B. Wade

Mabel Lee Walton

Melissa Warfield

Laura Martin Wheelwright

Edith Bolling Wilson

Jean Wood

Helen Wood

Temperance Flowerdew Yeardley

Martha Anne Woodrum Zillhardt

Source: https://womensmonumentcom.virginia.gov/index.html