upon her retirement, Monmouth Reform Temple set up the "Sally Priesand Endowment Fund for the Future" in her honor to preserve and protect the temple's legacy. On April 23, 2009, she received the prestigious Elizabeth Blackwell Award given by Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York to women whose lives exemplify outstanding service to humanity. The award is named after Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), the first woman in America to receive the Doctor of Medicine degree. In 2010, in honor of its 125th anniversary, Good Housekeeping magazine named her one of "125 women who changed our world". The Rabbi Sally J. Priesand WRJ Award was created to honor the 45th anniversary of Priesand's ordination. The award is given out once every year to a graduating Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Cincinnati campus woman, chosen because she "exemplif[ies] the mission and values of WRJ and embod[ies] the qualities that Rabbi Priesand has exhibited throughout her career, including her clarity of vision, her commitment to excellence, her professionalism, her dedication to the continuity of Reform Judaism, her passion, and her perseverance. See also List of Reform rabbis Timeline of women rabbis References Bibliography External links Bibliography in Jewish Women's Archive Bibliography in Jewish Women's Encyclopedia Monmouth Reform Temple Rabbi Sally J. Priesand on Monmouth Reform Temple First American woman rabbi Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution from the Jewish Women's Archive Rabbi Sally J. Priesand: Private Thoughts of a Public Person. Watercolors of the First Woman Rabbi in America on view at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, Manhattan, April 22-June 28, 2002 1946 births Living people American Reform rabbis Religious leaders from Cleveland People from Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey Reform women rabbis Jewish-American history Reform Jewish feminists Brookdale Community College faculty 1972 in Judaism 20th-century American rabbis 21st-century American rabbis