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Elizabeth Inez Pruitt fills a vital need in the isolated community of Tangier by serving as its primary health care provider.
Tangier Island

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A pharmacist, Eva Fleming Scott was the first woman elected to the Senate of Virginia.
Amelia County

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Florence Saunders Farley has fought against racism and bias to open doors in science and politics for African American women in Virginia.
Roanoke and Petersburg

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A pioneer in the field of reproductive endocrinology, Georgeanna Seegar Jones helped lead pathbreaking research into fertility treatments for women.
Norfolk

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A pioneer in mathematics, Gladys B. West was an instrumental hidden figure in the development of the modern Global Positioning System.
King George County

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Nicknamed "Grandma COBOL," Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was a pioneer in computer science and the first woman to achieve the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy.
Arlington County

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Gregory L. Robinson oversaw the completion and launch of NASA’s transformational James Webb Space Telescope.
Manassas

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Henrietta Lacks's cells, known in the medical world as HeLa cells, were the first human cells to be grown successfully outside the body for more than a short time.
Clover

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A physician, Isaac David Burrell operated the only pharmacy for African Americans in Roanoke for many years.
Roanoke

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Jean Miller Skipwith, Lady Skipwith, assembled one of the largest libraries owned by a Virginia woman early in the nineteenth century.
Mecklenburg County
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