Rear Admiral Alene Bertha Duerk
Rear Adm. Alene Bertha Duerk was the first woman promoted to admiral in the U.S. Navy in 1972.
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Ann Bradford Stokes
After escaping from slavery in 1863, Ann Bradford Stokes was captured and taken aboard the Union hospital ship USS Red Rover. She volunteered as a nurse and became the first African-American woman to serve aboard a U.S. military vessel.
Dr Katharine Maguire
Dr Katharine Marian Neril Maguire (1863-1931) was Ireland’s first female Paediatrician and a prize winning biology and medical student, who was primarily interested in social medicine.
Bernice Eddy
Dr. Eddy is remembered for work on control testing of vaccines for polio-myelitis and respiratory diseases, and for her discovery and characterization of tumorigenic viruses.
Dr Yadira Caraveo
US Representative from Colorado
Raquel Bono
The first woman to graduate from the US Navy’s Health Professions Scholarship Program in 1983.
Dr Tenley E Albright
American surgeon and figure skater
Mary Antona Ebo
In 1965, after Alabama state troopers attacked voting rights marchers on what became known as “Bloody Sunday,” Sister Antona Ebo and other nuns from the Franciscan Sisters of Mary traveled to Selma and joined the march to Montgomery when it resumed two weeks later.
Dr Denise L Faustman
Dr. Faustman invented the concept of producing genetically engineered pigs as transplantation donors, identified two biological pathways that allow treatment of autoimmunity, and identified a new mutation that may explain some of the differences between the ways men and women experience the same diseases.
Dr Harriot Kezia Hunt
As a physician, she focused on women’s health issues, gaining admiration from her patients. As a women’s rights activist, Hunt challenged the boundaries that restricted women in education and in society.