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Juanita Moody

Signal Security Agency (SSA, later NSA) cryptanalyst

Lillie Berry

The first African American woman in the NSA to give instruction in signals analysis and the first African American woman assigned as an Agency recruiter.

Wilhelmena Ware

Chief of the Learning Center at the NSA, where she was instrumental in instituting a number of programs, including the implementation of the sign language course.

Iris Carr

Joining the NSA during WWII, she fought diligently, though quietly, for better opportunities for talented but underutilized employees.

Anna Smith Strong

Anna “Nancy” Strong was a member of the Culper Spy Ring in Setauket NY during the American Revolution.

Barbara A McNamara

Ms. Barbara McNamara demonstrated extraordinary leadership qualities in advancing NSA’s mission, enhancing cooperation with other US agencies, and developing foreign partner relations.

Barbara Clark served in the Pacific during WWII as a member of the Woman’s Army Corps. She returned to federal service in early 1951 with the Armed Forces Security Agency as a Special Research Analyst doing research and reporting. As a Senior research analyst at NSA with foreign language capability, she served in four different production elements dealing with a wide range of international issues.

Dorothy T Blum

Dorothy Toplitzky Blum significantly changed the way NSA did cryptanalysis, pioneering the use of computers to manipulate and process data automatically.

Elizebeth Smith Friedman

Cryptanalyst and pioneer in U.S. cryptology

Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein

Skilled cryptanalyst whose successful breakthrough enabled the Army Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) to build an analog machine that solved the Japanese diplomatic system known as “Purple.” Exploitation of this system provided crucial intelligence in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters during World War II.