American nurses

Kimberly Clark Saenz (born November 11, 1973) also known as Kimberly Clark Fowler, is a convicted serial killer.

Leah Vukmir (born April 26, 1958) is a Republican member of the Wisconsin Senate, representing the 5th District since 2011.

Tina Wesson (born December 26, 1960 in Knoxville, Tennessee) won $1,000,000 as the winner of the second season of Survivor, on Survivor: The Australian Outback in 2001.

Rebecca Dawn "Becky" Lockhart (November 20, 1968 – January 17, 2015) was an American politician and Republican member of the Utah House of Representatives.

Theodore "Ted" Maher (born June 9, 1958, Auburn, Maine) is an ex-Green Beret turned registered nurse who was convicted of arson in a 1999 fire that killed Edmond Safra and another nurse, Vivian Torrente, at Safra's Monaco penthouse apartment.

Peggy A. Pendleton (born February 9, 1946) is an American politician and registered nurse from Maine.

Kaye Lani Rae Rafko Wilson (born August 26, 1963) is the winner of the 1988 Miss America Pageant.

Dr. Afaf Ibrahim Meleis is a Professor of Nursing and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing and Director of the School’s WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership from 2002 through 2014.

Encouraged to enter the competition by her mother, McDonald won Miss Pennsylvania USA title in early May 1971.

Mila M. Jasey (born May 29, 1951) is an American Democratic Party politician who serves in the New Jersey General Assembly, where she represents the 27th Legislative District.

Mabel Antoinette Sine Wadsworth (October 14, 1910 – January 11, 2006) was an American birth control activist and women's health educator.

Rae Landy (June 27, 1885, Lithuania – March 5, 1952, Cleveland, OH) was a nursing pioneer.

Eleanor C. Lambertsen (1916 – March 30, 1998) was an American nurse.

Osterman was born in Germany, though she and her family moved to the United States, settling in Baltimore when she was very young.

Juanita Broaddrick (born December 13, 1942) is an American former nursing home administrator.

Naomi Judd (born Diana Ellen Judd; January 11, 1946) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and activist.

Adah Belle Samuels Thoms (January 12, 1870 – February 21, 1943) was an African American nurse who cofounded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, was acting director of the Lincoln School for Nurses (New York), and fought for African Americans to serve as army nurses during World War I.

Alice Magaw (1860–1928) was an American nurse known for her work on anesthesia.

Amanda Fritz (born April 1958) is a retired registered psychiatric nurse and politician from the U.

Colley first competed in the Miss Tennessee 2002 pageant where she won a preliminary swimsuit award but did not place.

Ashley Underwood (born February 8, 1985) is an American women's basketball player and pageant contestant from Benton, Maine who competed in the Miss USA pageant in 2009.

Dr. Audrey O'Brien Nelson, Ph.

Patty Jean Poole Judge (born November 2, 1943) is an American politician.

Patricia Flatley Brennan is the director of the National Library of Medicine.

Sister Dolores Kane, R.

June McCarroll (June 30, 1867 – March 30, 1954) is credited by the California Department of Transportation with idea of delineating highways with a painted line to separate lanes of highway traffic, although this claim is disputed by the Federal Highway Administration and the Michigan Department of Transportation as two Michigan men painted centerlines before her.

Susan Lewis King (born February 2, 1952), is a Republican departing member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 71 based in Abilene in Taylor County, Texas, and neighboring Jones and Nolan counties.

Ethel Higgins Byrne (died 1955) was an American progressive era radical feminist.

Mary Florence Woody (March 31, 1926 - April 28, 2010) was an American nurse, hospital administrator and university professor.

Nina Hartley (born Marie Louise Hartman on March 11, 1959) is an American pornographic actress, pornographic film director, sex educator, sex-positive feminist, and author.

Katharine Kolcaba is an American nursing theorist and nursing professor.

Kathleen Vinehout (born June 16, 1958) is a Democratic member of the Wisconsin Senate, representing the 31st district since 2007.

Bessie Lillian Gordy Carter (August 15, 1898 – October 30, 1983) was the mother of former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter.

Linda Richards (July 27, 1841 – April 16, 1930) was the first professionally trained American nurse.

Lisa Hopp (born October 21, 1956) is a professor of nursing at Purdue University Calumet where she directs the Indiana Center for Evidence-Based Nursing Practice: A Collaborating Center of The Joanna Briggs Institute.

Ruth Baird Bryan Leavitt Owen Rohde, best remembered as Ruth Bryan Owen, (October 2, 1885 – July 26, 1954) was a politician and the first woman appointed as a United States ambassador.

Martha Elizabeth Rogers (May 12, 1914 – March 13, 1994) was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and author.

Alice Crocker Lloyd (December 9, 1893 – March 3, 1950) was not only the University of Michigan's longest serving Dean of Women, but also a trailblazer in progressive educational programs and ideals for young women at the time.

RoseAnn DeMoro is the Executive Director of National Nurses United and of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee.

Lucille Nelson Hegamin (November 29, 1894 – March 1, 1970) was an American singer and entertainer and an early African-American blues recording artist.

Annie M. Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, 1954) is an American sex educator, former prostitute, feminist stripper, pornographic actress, cable television host, porn magazine editor, writer and sex film producer.

Ann Marie Buerkle (/ˈbɜːrkəl/ BUR-kəl; née Colella; born May 8, 1951) is a former U.

Lois Ragnhild Grimsrud Capps (born January 10, 1938) is the U.

Daniel Owen Conahan, Jr.

John Devereaux Thompson, R.

Josephine G. Fountain was a registered nurse (RN) at the University of Florida Teaching Hospital and Clinics, best remembered for inventing the direct suction tracheotomy tube and holding its patent (no. 3039469).

Isabel Hampton was born in Welland, Ontario, on August 26, 1859.

Terry Acebo Davis (born 1953) is a Filipino American artist and nurse.

Gladys Bowery Black (1909–1998) was an American ornithologist, conservationist, and writer known as "Iowa's Bird Lady".

Opaline Deveraux Wadkins (1912–2000) organized the first school to train black nurses in Oklahoma City, fought for desegregation of the College of Nursing at the University of Oklahoma and founded the School of Nursing at Langston University.

Kathryn Elaine Barnard (April 16, 1938 – June 27, 2015) was a nurse known for her discovery of the role mother-newborn interactions have in early childhood development.

Virginia Dell Cassidy Blythe Clinton Dwire Kelley (née Cassidy; June 6, 1923 – January 6, 1994) was an American nurse and the mother of former U.

Kristen Heather Gilbert (born Kristen Heather Strickland, November 13, 1967) is a former nurse and an American serial killer who was convicted of four murders and two attempted murders of patients admitted to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Marilyn B. Tavenner (born May 31, 1951) is the former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Evelyn Lundeen (February 15, 1900 – January 29, 1963) was an American nurse who headed the first premature nursery in the United States with Dr.

Cindy Gamrat is a former Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives, representing the 80th district.

Alexis Amore (born Fabiola Melgar García; December 29, 1978) is a Peruvian pornographic actress and feature dancer.

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Susan DeMattei (born October 15, 1962) is an American former professional cross-country mountain bike racer.

Mary Ellen Edmunds (born March 3, 1940) is an American religious public speaker and author.

Yolanda Saldívar (born September 19, 1960) is an American woman who was convicted of murdering Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez on March 31, 1995, at the Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins, September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966, also known as Margaret Sanger Slee) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.

Helen Fairchild (November 21, 1885 – January 18, 1918) was an American nurse who served as part of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, and who became known for her wartime letters to her family in the U.

Mabel Keaton Staupers (February 27, 1890 – November 29, 1989) was a pioneer in the American nursing profession.

Dr. Meredith Wallace Kazer is an award-winning professor of nursing and dean of the Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies at Fairfield University.

Robin Oliveira (born 1954) is an American author, former literary editor, and nurse, who is most known for her debut novel, My Name is Mary Sutter, published in 2010.

Jill Goldthwait is an American politician from Maine.

Patricia H. Vance (born March 19, 1936) is a Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, representing the District 31 since 2004.

Lauren Danielle Drain (born December 31, 1985) is an American nurse, fitness model and author known for writing the 2013 book Banished, which chronicles her experiences and eventual banishment from the controversial Westboro Baptist Church.

Shirley A. Smoyak is a nurse and academic who has had a significant impact on the field of psychiatric nursing.

Cecilia Fire Thunder (born Cecilia Apple; October 24, 1946) is a nurse, community health planner and tribal leader of the Oglala Sioux.

Cynthia Ann "Cindy" Birdsong (born December 15, 1939) is an American singer who was formerly a member of Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles, but is most famous for replacing Florence Ballard as a member of The Supremes.

Catherine Andrea "Cathy" Giessel, (née Bohms; born November 9, 1951) is a Republican politician from the U.

Christine E. Canavan is a former American state legislator who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1993 to 2015.

Claire K. Shulman (born February 23, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American politician.

Renee Jacisin Ellmers (born February 9, 1964) is an American politician who has been the U.

Donna Howard (born October 25, 1951) is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives, representing the 48th District since her election in 2006.

Margaret Brydon Laird (1871 - November 29, 1968) was a leader in the women's suffrage movement in New Jersey.

A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rykowski is a graduated of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Marion Bloom (1891–1975) was H.

Mary Elizabeth Carnegie (April 19, 1916 – 20 February 2008) was an educator and author in the field of nursing, known for breaking down racial barriers.

Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States, graduating in 1879.

Mary Jane Nealon is an American poet, and registered nurse.

Retired Rear Admiral Mary Joan Nielubowicz was the Director of the Navy Nurse Corps from 1983 to 1987.

Thomas Phillip Willmott, known as Tom Willmott (born February 22, 1960), is an attorney and registered nurse from Metairie and Kenner, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 92 in Jefferson Parish in the New Orleans suburbs.

Aleda E. Lutz (1915 – November 1, 1944) was a United States Army flight nurse and one of the most celebrated women war heroes during World War II.

Carolyn M. Squires (September 25, 1940 – March 21, 2016) was an American nurse and politician.

Debra Medina (born June 1, 1962) is a Republican politician in the U.

Ida Mae Martinez Selenkow (September 9, 1931 – January 19, 2010) was an American professional wrestler in the 1950s, known as Ida Mae Martinez.

Jane Weinberger (March 29, 1918 – July 12, 2009) was an American author, publisher and wife of Caspar Weinberger, the 15th United States Secretary of Defense.

Janet Elliott Wulsin (1894–1963) was an early 20th-century explorer, whose accomplishments place her in line with contemporary women explorers such as Alexandra David-Neel.

Sarah Hope Kagan, PhD, RN, FAAN, is an American gerontological nurse, and Lucy Walker Honorary Term Professor of Gerontological Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania.