Born: 10 October 1927, United States
Died: 5 August 2011
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Hazel Winifred Johnson
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Hazel W. Johnson-Brown, U.S. Army (1927–2011) — The first African American woman to attain a general officer rank in American military history, Brig. Gen. Johnson-Brown was appointed in 1979 as chief of the Army Nurse Corps with the rank of brigadier general. She joined the Army Nurse Corps in 1955, in which she served until her retirement in 1983. In 1976, she was named the director and assistant dean of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing. (Section 60, Grave 9836)