U.S. Women's Firsts

Name	First U.S female...	Year
Ann Bradstreet	author in America	1640
Ann Franklin	newspaper editor	1762
Mary Kies	granted a patent	1809
Susan G. Bagley	telegrapher	1846
Frances B. Whitcher	humorist	1846
Elizabeth Blackwell	awarded a medical degree	1849
Antoinette B. Blackwell	ordained minister	1853
E. R. Jones	dentist	1855
Mary Surratt	hanged by U.S. government	1865
Mary Edwards Walker	Medal of Honor recipient	1866
Esther Hobart	justice of the peace	1870
Frances E. Willard	college president	1871
Victoria Woodhull	presidential candidate	1872
Helen Magill	Ph.D. awarded to a woman	1877
Susanna Salter	mayor (Argonia, Kansas)	1887
Naggie L. Walker	bank president	1903
Bessica Raiche	solo flight	1910
Alice Wells	policewoman (Los Angeles)	1910
Harriet Quimby	licensed airplane pilot	1911
Annette A. Adams	federal prosecutor	1914
Jeanette Rankin	member of U.S. House of Representatives	1916
Annette Adams	U.S. district attorney	1918
Opha May Johnson	marine	1918
Marie Luhring	automotive engineer	1920
Nellie Taylor Ross	elected governor of a state	1925
Phoebe Omlie	licensed pilot	1927
Jane Addams	Nobel Peace Prize recipient	1931
Amelia Earhart	transatlantic solo flight	1932
Hattie Caraway	elected to U.S. Senate	1932
Frances Perkins	cabinet member (Labor)	1933
Helen Richey	commercial airline pilot	1934
Gretchen Schoenleber	stock exchange member	1935
Georgia N. Clark	Treasurer of the United States	1949
Eugenie M. Anderson	United States ambassador	1949
Jerrie Mock	solo flight around the world	1964
Diane Crump	jockey in Kentucky Derby	1970
Billie Jean King	athlete to earn $100,000 a year	1971
Janet Gray Hayes	mayor of major city (San Jose)	1974
Sandra Day O'Connor	member of U.S. Supreme Court	1981
Dr. Sally K. Ride	astronaut to ride in space	1983
Geraldine A. Ferraro	candidate for vice president	1984
Kathryn D. Sullivan	astronaut to walk in space	1984
Libby Riddles	winner of Iditarod dogsled race	1985
Robin Ahrens	FBI agent killed on duty	1985
Lynette Woodard	member of Harlem Globetrotters	1985
Capt. Linda Bray	to lead American troop in combat	1989

Excerpt from The Social Studies Teacher's Book of Lists .

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