Mayor Hutchinson, Susie Clark join Iowa Women of Achievement

WLC honors historic QC area leaders

By: Kenda Burrows|September 11, 2025

|8 min read

Mary Ann Hutchinson works the crowd during Bettendorf's 1999 4th of July Festival. CREDIT CITY OF BETTENDORF

The late visionary Bettendorf Mayor Ann Hutchinson and Muscatine’s Susie Clark, the first Black student to desegregate a U.S. public school through a court order 86 years before Brown v. Board of Education, are among the 2025 Iowa Women of Achievement.

The Women Lead Change (WLC) posthumous awards program recognizes historic…

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Mayor Hutchinson, Susie Clark join Iowa Women of Achievement

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