Rear Admiral Annie Adams
US Navy officer
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Ruth C Isaacs
One of the first African-American Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) to enter Hospital Corps School at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.
Katherine Horton
One of the first African-American Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) to enter Hospital Corps School at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.
Inez Patterson
One of the first African-American Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) to enter Hospital Corps School at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.
Ann Coyer
US Naval officer who served at McMurdo Station in Antarctica as an administrative officer for the NAVWAR Space Field Activity (NSFA) program.
Captain Georgia Clark Sadler
The first female instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy
Regine Tugade-Watson
Regine Tugade-Watson is a world champion in athletics and was one of was one of five Guamanian athletes who participated in the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Mikie Sherrill
US Representative from New Jersey and former naval helicopter pilot
Loretta Perfectus Walsh
Walsh became the US Naval Reserve’s first female enlistee as a Yeoman (F) on March 17, 1917.
Madeline Swegle
Madeline Swegle became the Navy’s first-known African-American woman to become a tactical air pilot when she earned her ‘wings of gold’ in 2020.