Women of Color Volume 13 Number 1

CELEBRATING WOMEN OF CHARACTER, COURAGE & COMMITMENT

Eleanor K. Baum became the first female dean of an engineering school in the United States in 1984. In 1995, she was elected president of the American Society for Engineering Education, another first for a woman.

Admiral Michelle Howard is the U.S. Navy’s first ever female four-star admiral. Howard is the first woman to be named Vice Chief of Naval Operations.

Ursula M. Burns serves as Chairman and CEO of Xerox. She is the first African-American woman CEO to head a Fortune 500 company.

Duy-Loan T. Le is an engineer and the first woman and Asian to get elected to the rank of Texas Instruments Senior Fellow.

Ellen Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman in the world to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the shuttle Discovery in 1993.

Lina Echeverria was the first woman to seek admission to and graduate with a degree in engineering geology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Medellin.

Dr. Aprille Ericsson is the first Black woman to receive a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Howard University, as well as a Ph.D. in Engineering at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center.

Irene Hernandez Roberts is an IBM Master Inventor with over 50 IBM Patents.

Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth (May 24, 1878 – January 2, 1972) was one of the first working female engineers holding a Ph.D.

Rear Admiral Eleanor V. Valentin is the first female flag officer to serve as director of the United States Navy Medical Service Corps.