Edna Westbrook Trigg, a homemaker from Texas, is inducted for her pioneering efforts to help rural women coordinate and improve homemaking efforts.

While the principal of a rural school in Liberty, Texas, Trigg recognized the need to specialize education for farm women and their daughters. She organized local workshops in the arts and crafts of homemaking. These classes evolved into “Girl’s Tomato Clubs” in rural Milam County, Texas. Trigg dedicated her non-teaching hours to organize and work with local girls to grow and market tomatoes. In 1912, the clubs exhibited canned tomato products at the local fair, which was the first exhibit of this kind in Texas. By 1914, the popularity of her clubs grew into neighboring counties.

The Smith-Lever Act, passed by Congress in 1914, established the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cooperative Extension Service and Home Demonstration. Trigg became the first County Home Demonstration Agent in Texas, following her efforts that piloted this dream.