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In 1943, Thelma Bendler Stern, an engineering draftsman, became the first woman assigned to perform duties aboard a United States Navy ship as part of her official responsibilities. In 1944, Lieutenant Harriet Ida Pickens and Ensign Frances Wills were commissioned as the first African-American female navy officers. [31]
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 ...
Rainey received her wings of gold as the first female to be designated a naval aviator in February 1974 [3] and became the first Navy woman to qualify as a jet pilot. [2] She attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy. [3] She was killed in an aircraft crash in 1982 while performing her duties as a flight instructor. [4]
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.
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.
Fran McKee (September 13, 1926 – March 3, 2002) was the first female line officer to hold the rank of Rear Admiral in the United States Navy.She was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral (Lower Half) on June 1, 1976 and earned her second star in November 1978.
Lillian Elaine Fishburne (born March 25, 1949) was the first African-American female to hold the rank of Rear Admiral (RDML) in the United States Navy. She was appointed to the rank of Rear Admiral (Lower Half) by President of the United States Bill Clinton and was officially promoted on February 1, 1998. Fishburne retired from the Navy in ...
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.