Dr Mayme Agnew Clayton
A librarian, historian, and prolific collector of African American materials, Mayme Agnew Clayton spent much of her career in the western United States.
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Heather Ann Wilson
The first female military veteran elected to a full term in the US Congress, the first graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy to be sworn in as Secretary of the Air Force.
Edwina Cornish
Edwina Cornish is a biotechnologist who played a key role in establishing one of Australia’s first biotechnology companies, Florigene Limited, in the 1990s. The company developed and commercialised some of the world’s first genetically modified plants.
Melva Johnson
Aunty Melva Johnson is a respected Yorta Yorta elder and pioneer in developing health and education services for the Aboriginal community in Echuca, Victoria (Australia).
Jennie Dee Booth Moton
Jennie Moton served briefly as director of Tuskegee’s Department of Women’s Industries and later was a field agent for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) and president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).
Joan Penridge
Australian nursing educator
Judith Parker
As one of very few PhD-prepared nurses working in higher education in nursing in Australia in the early 1980s, she was well positioned to play a leading role in the transfer of nursing education from hospitals to higher education.
Irma Dávalos Pardo
Mexican writer, scholar and educator
Dr Lois Peeler
Dr Peeler AM has dedicated her life to supporting Aboriginal Australians as an educator, advocate and role model.
June Griffith
June Griffith worked with A.E. Alexander from 1950-1964, before being appointed lecturer and later senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales. She undertook research into the chemistry and physics of wool.