Inducted: 2005
Winter Haven Senior High Graduate,
Katherine Blood Hoffman earned a master's degree from New York's Columbia University and joined Florida State University's chemistry faculty in 1940 when it was unusual for women to teach the subject at the university level. She was an instructor, assistant professor, full professor and associate chair of the chemistry department. She was also FSU's dean of women and president of the FSU Faculty Senate. Upon her retirement, the FSU Department of Chemistry dedicated the Katherine B. Hoffman Teaching Laboratory. She and her husband established the $100,000 Katherine Blood Hoffman Endowed Scholarship in Chemistry.