Iris Carr
Joining the NSA during WWII, she fought diligently, though quietly, for better opportunities for talented but underutilized employees.
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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
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.
Hilda Faust Mathieu
Computer network pioneer Hilda Faust Mathieu was an early advocate recognizing network vulnerabilities and one of the driving forces developing security controls for network protection at the NSA.
Agnes Meyer Driscoll
Agnes Meyer Driscoll’s work as a navy cryptanalyst who broke a multitude of Japanese naval systems, as well as a developer of early machine systems, marks her as one of the true “originals” in American cryptology.
Ann Z Caracristi
Ann Caracristi began her career with the Army’s cryptologic organization during World War II. After a brief civilian career immediately following the war, she joined one of NSA’s predecessor organizations as a cryptanalyst.