25 Women You Need to Know for 2024: It's time to nominate Tallahassee motivators

It's a year to commemorate history and plan for the future as Tallahassee celebrates its bicentennial year.

We are thinking about all the women who have taken chances, broken barriers, helped others and made Tallahassee a better place. You can help acknowledge the women making a difference today as 2024 gets off to a positive start with a call to nominate a new round of 25 Women You Need to Know.

The Tallahassee Democrat's 25 Women You Need to Know tradition marks its 18th year in 2024. A generation of dedicated, talented and altruistic women and young women have accomplished big things since it started in 2006. This year marks the 10th year of the Young Women category, added in 2014.

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Who do you know behind the scenes or on the front lines, keeping the good work going in Tallahassee? It's time to recognize them.

Over the years the Tallahassee Democrat has honored nearly 500 women and young women for their outstanding work. But there is a new generation of women and young women deserving of the "25 Women You Need to Know, 5 Young Women to Watch" honor.

Help us meet them by sending in your nominations. The woman or girl you admire could be your daughter's doctor, mother's friend, or sister's teacher.

Each year, nominations are submitted by friends, spouses, children, co-workers or just admirers of women who are passionate about making positive changes in the lives of others and our community.

The award celebrates women who have not only achieved success in their careers but have gone above and beyond their profession to take on leadership roles in the community or by giving of their time and talent to volunteer and provide public service.

We are looking for those women whose passion is making Tallahassee the best place for all of us to live while still achieving professionally. Previous honorees include principals, professors, businesswomen, state representatives, a Florida Supreme Court Justice, attorneys, volunteers and more.

Their public service ranges from starting organizations to helping girls and teenagers to organizing AIDS walks to volunteering with local homeless and domestic abuse groups to serving on the boards of numerous civic, nonprofit and charity groups.

Just as important as honoring this year's 25 Women You Need to Know is finding the 5 Young Women to Watch.

These high school age girls are on the way to change not only our community, but the world. They give of their time and talents to others and still manage to succeed in sports or other extracurricular activities while maintaining their impressive GPA's.

Once all the nominations are in on Feb. 15 at 5 p.m., the judges take on the challenging task of finding the best of the best. Check out past winners at tallahassee.com/25women.

So, take a moment and go to data.tallahassee.com/nominate-25-women and fill out the short nomination form. Your nomination form matters, so make sure you detail all of the great volunteer and community service work she has contributed. Show the judges through your words what an asset she is to Tallahassee.

Throughout March — Women's History Month — the Democrat will publish individual profiles on the 30 chosen women and 5 young women in the newspaper and on Tallahassee.com.

Nominate someone today. The deadline is Feb. 15.

This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: 25 Women You Need to Know for 2024: Here's how to nominate