Catherine S. Long married into Louisiana’s legendary political family and spent nearly four decades immersed in state and national politics as a politician’s wife. When her influential husband died suddenly in 1985, Democratic Party leaders believed Cathy Long was a logical choice to succeed him, having served as his campaign surrogate and close advisor.
Idawalley Zoradia Lewis, known as Ida Lewis, is one of the best-known keepers, male or female, in the history of the U.S. Lighthouse service.
In 1988, Kay Cottee completed the first solo, non-stop and unassisted voyage around the world by a woman.
She graduated from the Yale School of Nursing in 1934 and worked as a nurse in a hospital in Bridgeport, CT. Leahy enlisted in the Navy in 1943 because she thought “nurses would be needed” and that she could help.
The first Chinese American woman to work at the Charlestown Navy Yard and an advocate for military veterans.
Naval engineer who developed a computer program to design ships in as little as 18 and 26 minutes, compared to the two years it took before
US astronaut and engineer
US Navy veteran
In 2016, after 35 years of service, Grocki retired from the US Navy at the rank of rear admiral and was the senior engineering duty officer in the Navy Reserve.
Astronaut, Navy machinist and engineer