Dr Martha May Eliot

Dr. Martha May Eliot was the first woman to be elected president of the American Public Health Association and the first woman to be awarded the American Public Health Association’s Sedgewick Memorial Medal.

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Dr Ethel Collins Dunham

1957: Dr. Ethel Collins Dunham was the first woman pediatrician to receive the American Pediatric Society’s most prestigious award, the John Howland Medal.

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Lillian S Spear

Lillian E. Anderson Sylten Spear was an important player in Snohomish County’s public power movement in the US state of Washington.

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