Thank you for visiting the website of Williamson County Democratic Women. Throughout the site you will see colors and images of a sunflower against a clear blue sky. The sunflower symbolized the dawn of a new day for the early suffragists who fought for a woman’s right to vote. The WCDW have adopted it as our symbol to honor their work and inspire our own.

On January 20, 2009 President Barack Obama’s spoke these words in his Inaugural Address.

“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. “What is demanded, then, is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility -- a recognition on the part of every American that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world; duties that we do not grudgingly accept, but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character than giving our all to a difficult task.”

At the January 24th meeting of the Williamson County Democratic Women, we accepted our president’s call to service and sketched out a calendar that will get us into the community more than usual. Each of our monthly meetings will center on a service project for a community organization. Sometimes these projects will be collecting needed items for the organization to continue to do its work effectively. Sometimes we will work side-by-side the organization’s staff and participate in their life-giving activities.

Every monthly meeting we will be collecting snacks for Gilda’s Club. If you are able, please bring some comfort food (or money to buy comfort food) to share with those whose lives have been forever changed by cancer. One of our members knows first-hand of the importance of Gilda’s Club, and she will deliver the goodies for us.

The Woman’s Suffrage Memorial in Knoxville by sculptor Alan LeQuire honors three Tennessee suffragists: Lizzie Crozier French of Knoxville, Anne Dallas Dudley of Nashville, and Elizabeth Avery Meriwether of Memphis.