FBI Support Services Technician Gladys M. Lee was working in the New York Field Office on September 11, 2001, and returned the next day to ensure her vital work for the field office continued without interruption. Lee commuted through the impact zone on a regular basis without personal protective equipment to shield her from the toxic debris from Ground Zero.
Pauline Haislip Duncan served as one of Virginia’s first female law enforcement officers.
Bel Marie Williams Gardner was a teacher, police matron, and social worker who made child welfare her primary purpose and legacy.
FBI officer deployed to the Pentagon following 9/11; she later died from cancer as a result of exposure to toxins at the site.
Anna Sheerin Lowe became Murray County’s first female sheriff (and the second female sheriff in the state of Minnesota) when the Murray County Commissioners appointed her to fill her husband’s unexpired term in 1923.
Joyce Vickery was a forensic botanist who was most noted for her work on the kidnap and murder case of Graham Thorne in 1960.
One of the first female police officers in Seattle and suffragist leader
Simons joined the US Park Police (USPP) on February 3, 1974. She was assigned to Anacostia Station, working from a cruiser rather than on foot patrol. She remembers being the only Black woman at the time.
FBI agent in the 1970s
FBI agent who died in the line of duty