Emma Maddox Funck was a Baltimore woman committed to the cause of women's suffrage. One of her major achievements as President of the Maryland Woman Suffrage Association President was successfully lobbying the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) to bring their 1906 annual national convention to Maryland. Funck’s legacy lies in her stewardship of the Maryland Woman Suffrage Association through the critical years of the early 20th century, which brought thousands of Maryland women into political and civic life for the first time.