Dr Delores Maria Leon
Dr. Delores Leon became the first woman to become a flight surgeon in the United States Army and the first woman to serve as commander of the 545th General Dispensary, Camp Humphreys, Korea in 1975.
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Dr Donna Christensen
Dr. Christian-Christensen was the first woman delegate from the United States Virgin Islands and the first woman to represent an offshore Territory, as well as the first woman physician in the U.S. Congress.
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.
Commander Bernice Walters
Commander Bernice “Burma” Nordstrom forged a path ahead for women in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Navy.
Dorothy T Blum
Dorothy Toplitzky Blum significantly changed the way NSA did cryptanalysis, pioneering the use of computers to manipulate and process data automatically.
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.
Dr Carol Nadelson
Dr. Carol Nadelson was the first woman president of the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr Barbara L Riley
Dr. Barbara Riley is the first person from her hometown of Dillingham, Alaska, to become a physician and the first Alaskan Native appointed to the medical staff at Alaska’s Kanakanak Hospital.
Dr Barbara Barlow
In 1988, Dr. Barbara Barlow founded the Injury Free Coalition for Kids.
Dr Beatrice Gee
Pediatric hematologist Beatrice Gee, M.D., is assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and practices medicine at the Georgia Sickle Cell Center at Grady Hospital.