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Rosemary Radford Ruether was a pioneering feminist theologian who received her doctorate in classics and patristics from Claremont School of Theology in 1965. Her illustrious career included positions at Howard University and several visiting lectureships including at Harvard Divinity School and Princeton Theological Seminary. Ruether spent almost 30 years as the Georgia Harkness Professor of Applied Theology at the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. After retiring from there she became the Carpenter Professor of Feminist Theology at the Pacific School of Religion and Graduate Theological Union. She was also the recipient of fourteen honorary doctorate degrees from esteemed institutions all over the world. Ruether authored or edited dozens of books, including Sexism and God Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology (1983) as well as hundreds of articles and chapters. She passed away in 2022 at the age of 85. Rosemary Radford Ruether is remembered as a scholar-activist committed to civil rights and ecofeminism with a passion for anti-racism, battling poverty, and advocating for progressive values and liberation in the Catholic Church.