Minnie Lou Ottinger, from Hydro, became the first woman on an Oklahoma A&M College livestock judging team as well as the first woman to ever win the individual livestock judging championship at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago.

Now known as Minnie Lou Ottinger Bradley, she is the matriarch of the 11,500-acre Bradley 3 Ranch in the Texas Panhandle and the first woman to have served as president of the American Angus Association.