Juliet Beyler
Executive director for U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa
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Ivah Ree Harris Coker
Member of the WAVES Naval Reserve (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during WWII
Jane Reilly Slattery
One of the first female commissioned officers in the United States Navy. She served during World War II in the WAVES , Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service.
Ann Geiman
Yeoman 1st Class Ann Geiman founded the first officially chartered LGBT-straight alliance in U.S. military history called GLASS (Gay, Lesbian and Supporting Service members).
Sub-Lieutenant Masego Mosupye
The South African Navy’s first female engineering officer on the chemical engineering side
Sampriti Bhattacharyya
Indian-American engineer and businesswoman
Susi Pudjiastuti
Indonesian Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
Ana Claudio
American naval officer
Marion Rice Hart
The first woman to graduate in chemical engineering who went on to work in physics and geology as well as a career as an aviator
Dr Maryly Van Leer Peck
The first woman to graduate in chemical engineering from the School of Engineering at Vanderbilt University and first woman to receive an MS and a PhD in engineering from the University of Florida (1962). She then got a job as a propellant and aerospace engineer for Rocketdyne Corporation and United States Naval Research Laboratory, developing solid fuel and engines which are still used in the space program today.