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Lieutenant Lynn Spruill became the first female navy pilot qualified to land on aircraft carriers. [78] 1979 The first woman in the navy to qualify as a surface warfare officer did so this year. [79] 1980 The first women graduated from the United States Naval Academy. There were 81 women in the class of 1980 at the Naval Academy, and 55 of them ...
Loretta Perfectus Walsh (April 22, 1896 – August 6, 1925) was the first American woman to officially serve in the United States Armed Forces in a non-nursing capacity. She joined the United States Naval Reserve on March 17, 1917, and subsequently became the first female petty officer in the Naval Reserve when she was sworn in as Chief Yeoman on March 21, 1917.
Graf's previous billets include Auxiliaries Officer and First Division Officer on the destroyer tender USS Puget Sound, this due to combat restrictions in effect at the time (10 USC 6015) that precluded women from being eligible to serve on front-line combatant warships in the U.S. Navy. [7] With the termination of this restriction in 1993 and ...
Amy N. Bauernschmidt is a United States Navy officer. She is the first woman to serve as the executive officer and then as the commanding officer of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. Bauernschmidt assumed command of USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) on 19 August 2021.
Susan Ahn Cuddy (Korean: 안수산, Hanja: 安繡山; January 16, 1915 – June 24, 2015) was the first female gunnery officer in the United States Navy.She was the eldest daughter of Korean independence activist Ahn Chang-ho and Helen Ahn, the first married Korean couple to immigrate to the United States in 1902.
Phyllis Mae Dailey (March 12, 1919 – October 31, 1976) was an American nurse and officer who became the first African American woman either to serve in the United States Navy or to become a commissioned Navy officer.
Harriet Pickens (17 March 1909 [1] – 1969) was an American naval officer and administrator. [2] With Frances Wills, she was one of the first two African American women commissioned by the United States Navy, and the first to achieve the rank of lieutenant. [3] [4] [2]
Anna Der-Vartanian (December 6, 1920 – August 4, 2011) was the first woman promoted to Master Chief Petty Officer (E-9), the highest enlisted rate in the United States Navy. In 1959, while serving as assistant to the Global Strategy Officer at the Naval War College in Newport , Rhode Island , Der-Vartanian received her promotion to Master ...