African American Women in Pharmacy Firsts
1942
Mollie V. Moon
(Meharry, Ph.C. 1928) is the founder and first President of the National Urban League Guild that still exist today.
1946
Anne Lane Petry
first African American woman and pharmacist, to sell a million copy of a book. Her most popular book, The Street, also won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship.
1950
Ferne B. Dunn
first African American female to graduate from Creighton University (NE) School of Pharmacy, and the first African American female pharmacist licensed to practice of pharmacy in Joliet, Illinois.
1955
Dolores J. Cooper
was the first African American woman in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. in pharmacy (pharmacology), including the M.S. degree (1953), from Purdue University.
1957
Doris Griswold Bryson, Ve Ella Graham, Margaret Brown
were the first African American women to graduate from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy.
1963
Ramona McCarthy-Hawkins
one of the first African American female pharmacists to serve in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) new drug application (NDA) division.
1966
Ramona McCarthy-Hawkins
the first African American female pharmacist to serve as a patent examiner on pharmaceuticals at the U.S. Patent Office.
1969
Patricia Ann Jones
first known African American female graduate (BS) at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy.
1969
Rosalyn Cain King
first African American pharmacist hired as a staff member of the American Pharmacists Association (formerly the American Pharmaceutical Association, APhA).
1969
Yvonne Henderson, Dorothy Washington
first African American females to graduate from the Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy.
1972
Sharon Roquemore
co-founded the Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA).
1972
Norma Jenkins Stewart
among the first African American female pharmacists involved with the implementation and execution of the National Drug Code (NDC). (See Ramona McCarthy-Hawkins).
1972
Ruth "Cookie" Campbell Jean
the first African American female pharmacist to serve as a member of the Louisiana State Board of Pharmacy.