Virginia Hall
Pioneering agent for the Special Operations Executive in occupied France during WWII
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Minnie McNeal Kenny
During the course of her 43-year career, Ms. McNeal Kenny received NSA’s two highest awards: the Meritorious Civilian Service Award (1980) and the Exceptional Civilian Service Award (1984).
Eunice Russell Willson Rice
Eunice Russell Willson Rice was a pioneering US Navy cryptologist who successfully broke Italian and Japanese codes during WWII.
Maureen Baginski
Maureen Baginski began her cryptologic career as a Russian Language instructor in 1979. During her tenure, Ms. Baginski held various operational management positions, including a tour as a Senior Operations Officer in the National Security Operations Center and the Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) National Intelligence Officer for Russia.
Mary Louise Prather
Mary Louise Prather joined the Signal Intelligence Service in 1938 and was named the chief of the Soviet Information Division in 1960. In 1969 she received the Meritorious Civilian Service Award.
Dr Julia Ward
As the founder of Central Reference, Dr. Julia Ward significantly affected the future of a key function across a wide variety of targets and problems at the NSA. Her pioneering efforts to build a library of classified and unclassified resources to aid analysis greatly advanced the American cryptologic effort.
Julia Wetzel
As the Soviet Union’s Communist regime collapsed Wetzel was Chief of a major operational analysis group at the NSA. She saw the Division through the critical time of the Agency’s restructuring to align with new world issues. She moved through several managerial positions in the 1990s including Commandant of the National Cryptologic School.
Katharine Swift
Premier linguist and codebreaker at NSA reconstructing many codes during her 30-year career.
Laura Holmes
During the 1980s, Laura Holmes served as a career cryptanalyst and supervisor against a series of challenging manual cryptosystems at the NSA. She also developed considerable expertise in an impressive number of target languages.
Juliana Mickwitz
An innovative linguist who was a prime advocate of new ways of exploiting language materials and developed highly-valuable intelligence information at a time when the U.S. lacked other sources.