Joyner, a civil-rights activist who spent 16 years in the Legislature, was the first Black woman to practice law in Hillsborough and Polk counties.
Castor spent 31 years with the Tampa Police Department, including six years as chief. She was elected mayor in 2019.
Other nominees are suffragist Alice Scott Abbott; Florence Alexander, founder of the management consulting firm Ebon Research Systems; Samira Beckwith, president and CEO of Hope Healthcare; Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a gold-medal winning Olympic swimmer and attorney; suffragist May Mann Jennings; Alma Lee Loy, a charter member of the Florida Commission on the Status of Women and the first woman elected chair of the Indian River County Commission; children’s advocate Audrey Schiebler, a founding member of the Alachua County Council on Child Abuse; and Indiantown community activist E. Thelma Waters.
The Hall of Fame, featured on a wall in the Capitol rotunda, was created in 1982. Gov. Ron DeSantis will select the 2020 inductees from the list.
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This article appears in Aug 13-19, 2020.