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Looking Back, While Stepping Forward

by Jcho March 14, 2017
written by Jcho March 14, 2017
Looking Back, While Stepping Forward

This month we celebrate Women’s History Month by looking at the 5 women who have helped pave, and who are continuing to pave the path for women in optometry.

  • 1899 (approximate)

Gertrude Stanton –  The first licensed female optometrist.

  • 1920

Dr. Mae Booth-Jones – The first female president of an optometry school, Washington School of Optometry, in Spokane, Washington.

  • 1993

Joan Exford, O.D., – The first female to become the president of the American Academy of Optometry.

  • 2010

Col. Carol Z. Rymer, O.D., M.B.A., – First female optometrist to be promoted to colonel in the U.S. Army.

  • 2013

Jennifer Smythe Coyle, O.D., M.S., – First female to become president of the Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry

 

 

 

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