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Minnie Joycelyn Elders (born Minnie Lee Jones; August 13, 1933) is an American pediatrician and public health administrator who served as Surgeon General of the United States from 1993 to 1994. A vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps , she was the second woman, second person of color , and first African American to serve ...
Joycelyn Elders (born 1933) September 8, 1993 December 31, 1994 1 year, 114 days – Rear Admiral Audrey F. Manley (born 1934) Acting: January 1, 1995 July 1, 1997 2 years, 180 days – Rear Admiral J. Jarrett Clinton (1938–2023) Acting: July 2, 1997 February 12, 1998 226 days 16 Admiral [a] David Satcher (born 1941) February 13, 1998 ...
Joycelyn Elders was born a sharecropper’s daughter and would go on to become the first Black U.S. Surgeon General in 1993. Before then-President Bill Clinton helped Elders make history by ...
1933–2011: Leading member of the software development team for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work at NASA: Cecile H. Edwards: nutritionist: 1926–2005: Researcher focused on improving nutrition and well-being of disadvantaged people: Joycelyn Elders: pediatrician: 1933-
[4] [5] [6] The first National Masturbation Day was held on May 7, 1995, after sex-positive retailer Good Vibrations declared the day in honor of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who was fired by President Bill Clinton in 1994 for suggesting masturbation be part of the sex education curriculum for students.
Dr. James Robert Lincoln Diggs became the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in Sociology from Illinois Wesleyan University, and the ninth to receive a doctorate of any kind. Diggs went on to became an influential college president, scholar, social activist, and pastor.
Dr. Stacy Sims, an internationally-renowned exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist, describes the way we have started to look at midlife in recent years as, “a sociocultural shift.” A24
Joycelyn Elders: 8 Sep 1993 Surgeon General (SG), 1993–1994. 1 1993 : 0 (1933– ) Resigned, 1994. Director, Arkansas Department of Health, 1979–1981. First African American to be Surgeon General. 5 David Satcher: 20 Jan 2001 Surgeon General (SG), 1998–2002. 1 1998 : 3