Julliètte-Marie Dessalines

Julliètte-Marie Dessalines was a Haitian royal and university administrator. Born to a Ghanian princess turned slave and Haitian prince sent into exile, Julliètte-Marie had an interesting upbringing. She was married off to the son of the new Haitian emperor at age 20, and he died just two months later.
She married Alexandre Baptiste, an engineer, in 1859, and they had two sons, Antoine and Michel. When the rest of her family left Haiti for the United States, Julliètte-Marie followed with her husband, as both of her sons had already went to America to attend college. She stayed in New Orleans with the rest of her family before he husband until 1886, when Alexadre received a job teaching in the Industrial Department at THU.
Shortly after her husband began working at THU, Julliètte-Marie was hired at the school as the Dean of Girls; a position which she held for 20 years. Over the course of her tenure she took courses at the university, and graduated with a degree in Classical studies in 1897. Julliètte-Marie died on August 1, 1910 after suffering a heart attack.