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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

Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner

Captain Rosemary Mariner was a pioneer female naval aviator.

Susan Ahn Cuddy

A young college graduate who joined the military following the Pearl Harbor attack

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.

Katherine Ah Lan Lowe

Worker at Pearl Harbor following the Japanese attack in World War II

Marie Meyer

Marie Meyer was a language scholar from Illinois with a Master’s Degree in Latin as well as knowledge of Greek German and Sanskrit hired as a cryptographer by the Signal Security Agency in 1943. She became the first person to receive NSA’s Meritorious Civilian Service Award.

Edith Giovannoni

She served as a Yeoman (F) in the U.S. Naval Reserve Force during the World War I era. At the beginning of January 1919, while assigned to the Bureau of Navigation in Washington, she was promoted from Yeoman Second Class to Yeoman First Class. After leaving active duty in 1919 she was employed by the Navy Department, later shifting to the U.S. Marine Corps, and worked for the Marines until retiring from U.S. Government service in the later 1940s or early 1950s.

Lieutenant Commander Mildred McAfee

She became the Navy’s first female line officer on 3 August 1942. Commissioned a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve, she simultaneously undertook the demanding task of Director of the Navy’s newly-established Women’s Reserve. In November 1943, following the passage of new legislation by the Congress, she was promoted to the rank of Captain.