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United States Navy. Loretta Perfectus Walsh (April 22, 1896 – August 6, 1925) became the first American active-duty Navy woman, the first woman to enlist in the U.S. Navy, and the first woman allowed to serve as a woman in any of the United States armed forces, when she enlisted as a sailor in the U.S. Naval Reserve on March 17, 1917.
Lieutenant Lynn Spruill became the first female navy pilot qualified to land on aircraft carriers. 1979 The first woman in the navy to qualify as a surface warfare officer did so this year. 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 graduated.
Lisa Franchetti. Admiral Lisa Marie Franchetti ( / fræn.kˈɛti / fran-KEH-ti; born April 25, 1964) [1] is a United States Navy admiral who has been the (33rd) [2] chief of naval operations, and due to having that position, a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, [3] since November 2, 2023. [4] [5] She is the first woman to be chief of naval ...
Holly Graf. Meritorious Service Medal (with one gold star ). Holly Ann Graf is a retired United States Navy officer. Until January 2010 she was commanding officer of the Ticonderoga -class guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG-63), a major surface combatant vessel of the fleet. She was the first woman to command a cruiser in the history of the ...
Awards. Legion of Merit. Defense Superior Service Medal. Meritorious Service Medal. 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.
She was the first African-American woman to command a United States Navy ship, USS Rushmore, and the first to achieve two- and three-star rank. In 2006, she was selected for the rank of rear admiral (lower half), [5] making her the first admiral selected from the United States Naval Academy class of 1982 and the first female graduate of the ...
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. She joined the Navy in 1942 ...
Grace Brewster Hopper ( née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. [1] She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC ...