Rear Admiral Alma Grocki
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.
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Jessica Wittner
Astronaut, Navy machinist and engineer
Dr Attracta Rewcastle
Irish doctor, politician, and the first female Commissioned Officer in the Royal Navy
Dr Olivia J Hooker
Dr. Olivia J. Hooker, a survivor of the Tulsa race massacre, blazed a trail as the first Black woman on active duty in the US Coast Guard.
Master Chief Angela M McShan
A 20-year veteran of the US Coast Guard, the first African-American woman to achieve the enlisted rank of master chief
Mara Huling Langevin
The first minority female aviator in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Dorothy C Stratton
Dorothy Stratton was the Director of the SPARS, the women’s reserve branch of the US Coast Guard during World War II.
Mary Kendrick
Whenever you hear of cities flooding or read about the potential for climate change and sealevel rise to flood our major cities, you can thank Mary Kendrick for her life’s work on the Thames and Mersey river systems.
Henrietta Vansittart
Henrietta Lowe Vansittart is often considered to be the first British woman to work as a ‘proper’ engineer or naval architect.
Hilda M Lyon
In 1922 she became an associate fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and in 1925 joined the Royal Airship Works in Cardington.