Con-Con Eleven

The Con-Con Eleven were a group of eleven women delegates to the 1961-1962 Michigan Constitutional Convention. The group of eleven women (5 Democrats and six Republicans) were the first and only women to attend a Michigan Constitutional Convention. The eleven women were Vera Andrus (1896-1976), Ruth Gibson Butler (1891-1981), Anne M. Conklin (1925-1975), Katherine Moore Cushman (1916-1991), Ann Elizabeth Donnelly (1924-1984), Daisy Elizabeth Elliott (1919-2015), Adelaide Julia Hart (1900-1995), Lillian Hatcher (1915-1998), Dorothy Leonard Judd (1898-1989), Ella Demmink Koeze (1905-1986) and Marjorie Frances McGowan (1930-1980).

The eleven were appointed to 11 of the fourteen committees of the Constitutional convention, and three would serve as vice-chairs, though none were chairs. The delegates were from Port Huron, Houghton, Livonia, Dearborn, Highland Park, Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan.