Dr Toni O’Neill
Australian science teacher
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Thelma Dewitty
Thelma Dewitty was the first black teacher to be hired by the Seattle Public Schools.
Bel Marie Gardner
Bel Marie Williams Gardner was a teacher, police matron, and social worker who made child welfare her primary purpose and legacy.
Willetta Esther Riddle Gayton
Willetta Esther Riddle Gayton was the first African American professional librarian in Seattle.
Lyn Henderson-Yates
The first Aboriginal person to be appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor of an Australian university.
Maggi Phillips
Australian dance scholar and educator
Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann
Aboriginal Australian painter and educator
Dr Margaret Jolly
Australian anthropologist
Dr Margaret Williams Weir
The first Aboriginal person to matriculate to an Australian university. In January 1957 the University of Queensland offered her a scholarship and she commenced an arts degree.
Joan Montgomery
Australian leader in women’s education