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Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics

Submit a Nomination

To nominate a woman for the Women Impacting ISU calendar, you will need the following materials ready to upload:

  • Contact information for your nominee
  • Contact information for two nominators
  • A letter of recommendation from each nominator (2 pages or less, Adobe PDF format)
  • Optional: résumé or CV of nominee (Adobe PDF format)

The nomination may be submitted by either of the nominators or by a third party on behalf of the nominators.

Note: All nominations must have two nominators. Submissions with only one nominator will not be considered by the selection committee. If someone is included as a nominator for the same woman on two submissions in the same year, only the first submission will be considered by the selection committee.

Any woman who is currently employed by Iowa State University or who is a current student at Iowa State University is eligible to be nominated. Faculty and staff nominees must still be employed for the entire calendar year in which they would be honored. Students graduating in May of the calendar year in which they would be honored are eligible.

Before nominating someone, please check the list of previous honorees to make sure that they have not previously been honored. We also encourage you to read the FAQs below before submitting a nomination.

Nomination deadline: Sept. 20, 2026

Frequently asked questions

Self nominations will not be considered.

Nominations of organizations will not be considered.

Yes! One does not have to work at, be enrolled at, or be otherwise associated with Iowa State University to nominate a woman for the calendar.

We recommend telling your nominee about the nomination and sharing the information you are including in the nomination letters before submitting them. That way, the nominee can let you know if there is anything else about her impact at Iowa State that could be included.

A committee of representatives from the Catt Center’s student programs, previous calendar honorees and other members of the ISU community review the nominations and select the honorees. A different selection committee is formed each year.

Depending on the nominee’s role on campus, nominations will be judged on the nominee’s impact through their job performance, research, scholarship, teaching, academic achievement, other service to their unit or a broader campus audience, and/or mentorship of others.

If you are interested in serving on the selection committee, email the Catt Center at cattcntr@iastate.edu. At the beginning of the fall semester, potential committee members will be contacted about their availability to attend one or two review meetings in October. Nominators are not eligible to serve on the committee for that year.

Honorees will be notified within a few days after the review committee makes their decision, in mid- to late October.

If your nominee is not selected, we will email you to let you know, and if you had indicated that your nominee is aware of her nomination, we will also email her. We welcome you to nominate her again the next year – many past calendar honorees were nominated more than once before being selected. We also encourage you to consider nominating her for other university or college awards.

A reception to publicly honor the women selected to appear on the calendar and unveil that year’s calendar is held in the Memorial Union each January, typically on the first Wednesday of the semester. This reception is free and open to the public. Check the Catt Center’s Events page for more information.

Calendars will be available at the reception in January, immediately following the program. Calendars will be also available at various campus locations while supplies last, including the Catt Center, the Margaret Sloss Center, Beardshear Hall, and the Memorial Union.