[DOC] [TLE] Joycelyn Elders - Wikipedia [PAR] Minnie Joycelyn Elders is an American pediatrician and public health 
administrator. She was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service 
Commissioned Corps and the first African American appointed as Surgeon 
General of the United States ... In January 1993, Bill Clinton appointed her as the 
United States Surgeon... [DOC] [TLE] M. Joycelyn Elders (1993-1994) | SurgeonGeneral.gov [PAR] Joycelyn Elders was born Minnie Lee Jones in Schaal, Arkansas on August 13, 
1933. ... She became an expert on childhood sexual development. In 1987, 
Elders was appointed Director of the Arkansas Department of Health by then-
Governor Bill Clinton. ... She was the first African American to serve in the 
position. [DOC] [TLE] Antonia C. Novello (1990-1993) | SurgeonGeneral.gov [PAR] Jan 4, 2007 ... She held various positions at NIH, rising to the job of Deputy Director of the 
National Institute of Child Health ... She was the first woman and the first Hispanic 
to hold the position. ... Dr. Novello became Commissioner of Health for the State 
of New York in 1999 ... U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. [DOC] [TLE] Elders, Joycelyn Minnie (1933- ) | The Black Past: Remembered and ... [PAR] Joycelyn Elders, the former U.S. Surgeon General, was born Minnie Lee ... 
became chief pediatric resident at the University of Arkansas Medical Center. ... 
first female and African American to be director of the Department of Health in 
Arkansas. ... the first woman and first black U.S. Surgeon General on September 
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bus fare to Little Rock, and she became the first in her family to attend college. ... 
Clinton (1946) named Elders director of the Arkansas Department of Health, 
twenty... [DOC] [TLE] Joycelyn Elders (1933) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas [PAR] Dec 13, 2013 ... Joycelyn Elders was director of the Arkansas Department of Health and the U.S. 
surgeon general in the administration of President Bill Clinton. [DOC] [TLE] Joycelyn Elders facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] Confirmed as the 16th Surgeon General of the United States on September 7, ... 
was the first African American and only the second female to head up the U.S. 
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resigned from her position as director of the Arkansas Health Department in July 
1993... [DOC] [TLE] Dr. Joycelyn Elders - National Library of Medicine [PAR] Joycelyn Elders, the first person in the state of Arkansas to become board ... 
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1993. ... she heard Edith Irby Jones, the first African American to attend the 
University of... [DOC] [TLE] Joycelyn Elders, United States Surgeon General | Circulating Now [PAR] Aug 13, 2015 ... A brilliant, talented, and powerful woman, she had strong views and no ... 
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of the United ... he appointed Elders director of the Arkansas Department of 
Health. ... Question and Answer session at the National Press Club 1993. [DOC] [TLE] Department History - UAMS Pediatrics [PAR] She was the first woman to serve as the chair of a department of pediatrics in the 
United States. ... the director of the Arkansas Department of Health and in 1993, 
she became the first Arkansan to serve as Surgeon General of the United States. [DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about BLACK HISTORY MO. - StudyStack [PAR] ARKANSAS' FIRST WOMAN DIRECTOR OF THE DEPT. OF HEALTH, SHE 
BECAME U.S. SURGEON GENERAL IN 1993, JOCELYN ELDERS. IN 1995, 
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Question: Arkansas' first woman director of the Department of Health, she became U.S. Surgeon General in 1993
Answer: Jocelyn Elders