Elida Rumsey Fowle
American singer, philanthropist, and Union nurse during the American Civil War
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Tammy Duckworth
As one of the first female veterans elected to the Senate, Senator Ladda Tammy Duckworth has been a tireless advocate for veterans and new mothers. A Purple Heart recipient, Senator Duckworth has never let her use of a wheelchair slow her down.
Dina
Two Messinese women, Dina and Clarenza, defended their city during Charles I of Anjou’s siege of the Italian city in 1282
Clarenza
Two Messinese women, Dina and Clarenza, defended their city during Charles I of Anjou’s siege of the Italian city in 1282
Barbara A Robbins
Barbara A. Robbins joined the CIA, but just two years later – in March 1965 – she was killed when terrorists bombed the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam. She was the first female CIA officer to die in the line of duty and she remains the youngest ever, at just 21-years old.
Lula Mae O’Bannon
Lula Mae O’Bannon (Choctaw) used the opportunities in joining the US Coast Guard SPARS during World War II to expand her horizons and serve the United States’s war effort.
Lula Belle Everidge
Lula Belle Everidge served in World War II as one of the few Native American SPARS.
Erica O’Donnell
Irish art historian and WWII espionage officer
Virginia Jenkins Riley
In the early 1960s, Riley was one of the designers and programmers of a general program written for the UNIVAC 490, the first computer designed specifically for real-time applications at NSA. In the late 1960s, she moved to the Cryptanalysis Department at the National Cryptologic School, where she developed a new course in Cryptanalytic Diagnostics.
Dr Frederica de Laguna
Dr. Frederica “Freddy” de Laguna was an influential archeologist and anthropologist who worked extensively throughout Alaska.