November 11, 2022

100 years of caring

1922

Cornelia Keeble Ewing and 46 other young women found the Junior League of Nashville — the 30th member of the Association of Junior Leagues of America.

 

1923

The Junior League Home for Crippled Children opens at Ninth Avenue and Monroe Street to help children with orthopaedic illnesses.

 

1929

The Junior League purchases five acres at 2400 White Avenue and breaks ground on a new building.

 

1971

The Junior League relocates its Home to the children’s floors of Vanderbilt University Hospital.

 

1988

Junior League support of the Child Life Program’s services begins.

 

1998

Junior League pledges $2 million to support new freestanding Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at

Vanderbilt.

 

2007

Begins support/expansion of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Follow-Up Clinic.

 

Junior League Fetal Center formed.

 

2012

Junior League gifts $1.5 million to start the Sickle Cell Disease and Asthma Program.

 

2016

Junior league commits $1.5 million to Child Life Program.

 

2022

For 100th anniversary, Junior League gifts $1.5 million for pediatric rehabilitation.