page_title: Sacred Twenty
section_title: Members
hierarchical_section_title: Sacred Twenty / Members
context_page_description: The Sacred Twenty were a group of nurses who were the first female members to ever formally serve in the United States Navy representing the Nurse Corps. Officially formed in 1908, the Sacred Twenty made broad contributions during wartime, not only including training of field nurses and disease treatment, but also providing education programs for nurses abroad and professional publications to the field of nursing.
context_section_description: The Sacred Twenty included three Nurse Corps Superintendents and twelve chief nurses.  They were:
  Josephine Beatrice Bowman, the third Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps, 1922–1935
  Sara M. Cox
  Clare L. De Ceu
  Mary H. Du Bose
  Estelle Hine
  Elizabeth M. Hewitt
  Esther Voorhees Hasson, the first Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps, 1908–1911;
  Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee, the second Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps, 1911–1922;
  Della V. Knight
  Elizabeth Leonhardt
  Florence T. Milburn
  Margaret D. Murray
  Sara B. Myer
  Ethel R. Parsons
  Adah M. Pendleton
  Martha E. Pringle
  Isabelle Rose Roy
  Boniface T. Small
  Victoria White
  Elizabeth J. Wells
caption: Lenah Higbee, second superintendent of the United States Navy Nurse Corps
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