It is fair to call Julia Strudwick Tutwiler, born in Havana Alabama (1841), one of the most transformational figures in Alabama history. Her name is writ across the landscape of the state, in places large and small, for good reason.
To write Tutwiler’s complete biography would be well beyond the scope of this countdown, but among the list of her numerous accomplishments:
- She was a tremendous supporter of troubled youth, believing in rehabilitation in a time marked by concepts like the Deserving Poor and the pitiless notion of predestined criminality based upon half-baked pseudoscience.