Michelle Easton—a wife, mother, and patriot who served in the Reagan administration—founds the Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women (originally named the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute).  

Star Parker, a former welfare recipient and founder of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), speaks at the second annual College Women’s Luncheon. She remarks: “Women get caught up in current trends, and think they have to be what others tell them. You can make your priorities based on your own values and stick with them.” She becomes a popular campus lecturer for the Center.  

Rutgers University student Kimberly Martin (now Kimberly Begg – pictured far right) hosts a Luce campus lecture with Washington Times columnist Suzanne Fields. Fields writes a column about her experience speaking to a large group of students who “seemed itching for a fight.” She shares that as she spoke and respectfully answered questions, “everyone began listening to each other as if realizing that they all share a common concern about the future, how to become what they want to be.” She writes: “Voices were raised, and some of them were shrill, but no one walked out, no one tried to shut off debate…. Several students even thanked the organizers for creating ‘a dialogue’ on a subject that mattered to them all.”  

Jeanne Kirkpatrick, 16th U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in the Reagan administration, speaks at a Conservative Women’s Network event on the topic of “Women Should Refuse to Choose Between Family and Career,” saying that, of her many accomplishments, being a mother to her three sons was her most fulfilling role. 

The Center hosts a tribute to Barbara Olson, the conservative author who was killed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Speakers at the memorial included Barbara’s husband Solicitor General Ted Olson and Mary Ellen Bork, a writer, lecturer, and wife of Judge Robert Bork. Publisher Al Regnery gives every woman in attendance a copy of Barbara’s last book, The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House.   

The Center publishes its first Great American Conservative Women calendar. Tom Phillips—founder of Phillips Publishing and Eagle Publishing, which included Regnery Publishing and Human Events—encourages the Center to make the calendar an annual project.  

Supporters of the Center host the first Circle of Friends event in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, beginning a tradition of gathering with local patriots in Seattle, Santa Barbara, Vero Beach, and other cities across the country.    

The Center honors Becky Norton Dunlop, deputy assistant to the president during the Reagan administration and a longtime vice president for the Heritage Foundation, as Woman of the Year.  

The Center hosts its first Western Women’s Summit to gather young women and supporters of all ages to hear from inspiring speakers at the Reagan Ranch and Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, California. 

Clare Luce Abbey, granddaughter of Clare Boothe Luce, joins the Center’s board of directors.  

Lauren McCue (now Lauren Snyder), a 2014 Luce summer intern, hosts Bay Buchanan for a Luce campus lecture on illegal immigration at Virginia Tech. The over-capacity crowd fills the room and spills out into the hallway. Despite a few hostile attendees, most students listen respectfully to Bay’s conservative perspective on an issue of critical national importance. The event receives front-page newspaper coverage.  

Actress Stacey Dash, best known for her role in the 1995 hit movie, “Clueless,” speaks at an Afternoon with an Author event about her book, There Goes My Social Life: From Clueless to Conservative. C-SPAN broadcasts the event live.

The Center begins the expansion of its headquarters to create a national Center for Conservative Women with event space and intern stations, as well as a board room, offices, and kitchen. 

Kate Obenshain Keeler, a popular speaker and commentator on campuses, television, and radio, deconstructs the anti-truth, anti-American foundation of critical race theory to an in-person and livestream audience at the Center’s Western Women’s Summit. She encourages young women to speak out on their campuses to inspire courage in their peers to stand up for hard truths and help restore America’s founding principles. 

The Center honors Winsome Sears, 42nd lieutenant governor of Virginia and the first woman to hold that position, as Woman of the Year. 

The Center celebrates 30 years of educating and mentoring young women for conservative leadership, honoring Wisconsin State Representative Ellen Schutt with its first-ever Outstanding Alumna Award.

Kimberly Begg becomes president of the Luce Center, working closely with the staff and board to recruit, educate, and mentor young women to bring greater freedom and prosperity to all Americans. Michelle Easton, who served as president for 31 years, becomes chairman of the board.