Adele Chatfield-Taylor
American preservationist and arts administrator
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Alice Yick
The first Chinese American woman to work at the Charlestown Navy Yard and an advocate for military veterans.
Betty Budlong
American who worked at Canyon de Chelly and El Morro National Monuments and published articles on Navajo ceremonies and dwellings
Dovey Johnson Roundtree
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Captain responsible for the recruitment of African American female soldiers during World War II, lawyer and civil rights activist
Thelma Garcia Buchholdt
Thelma Garcia Buchholdt became the first Filipinx American legislator in the U.S. when she was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1974.
Ruth deForest Lamb
Her untiring efforts to engage and acknowledge the activism of women’s groups in support of a new statute bore fruit as women shaped many provisions of the new law passed to replace the Wiley Act: The 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Dr Effie Alberta Read
Effie Alberta Read, Ph. D., M. D., one of very few women in the FDA’s Bureau of Chemistry when she joined the agency in 1907, was among the best trained analysts when she arrived.
Imogene Gollinger
In August, 1965, FDA’s Food and Drug Review announced that the agency had hired its first “woman” inspector, Mrs. Imogene Gollinger.
Dr Jane Henney
After being nominated as the first female Commissioner of FDA by President Bill Clinton, she became the first FDA Commissioner to go through the grueling Senate confirmation process in 1999. Supporters of the nomination maintained that given both her medical acumen and administrative talent and experience, she was the most qualified Commissioner FDA had ever had.
Mary Engle Pennington
Mary Engle Pennington became FDA’s first female lab chief under Harvey Wiley following passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act. Her bacteriological research helped revolutionize the food supply, making more safe, fresh foods available at affordable prices, particularly in newly industrialized areas of the country.