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Short List of Notable Women in Los Angeles History (Listed Alphabetically) Margaret Q. Adams – first woman deputy sheriff in U.S. Ethel Percy Andrus – founder of AARP and National Retired Teachers Association and first woman principal of a California high school. Charlotta Spears Bass – African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist Yvonne Brathwaite Burke – first African American to serve on L.A. County Board of Supervisors Dr. Rose Bullard - first and only woman physician to elected as President of the Los Angeles County Medical Association (1903). She was a distinguished nationally-recognized surgeon and was one of the first physicians to employ spinal anesthesia during labor. Aurora Castillo – cofounder of Mothers of East Los Angeles Dorothy Chandler – civic leader and philanthropist. Spearheaded fundraising for Music Center Lily Lee Chen – former Mayor of Monterey Park and first Chinese American woman mayor in U.S. Clara Foltz – California’s first woman attorney and first woman deputy district attorney in Los Angeles County Helen Gahagan Douglas –Congresswoman and first California woman to receive major party backing for a U.S. Senate race Amelia Earhart – aviation pioneer Katherine Edson – first woman appointed to major California state post (Chief of the California Division of Industrial Welfare) Dr. Elizabeth Follansbee – Southern California’s first woman physician Mary Gibson – social activist and Co-founder of L.A. Woman’s Club and Friday Morning Club Dora Haynes – founder of L.A. Chapter of the League of Woman Voters Minerva Hoyt – desert preservationist who helped to create Joshua Tree National Monument Bella Lewitzky – founder of internationally acclaimed Bella Lewitzky Dance Company Biddy Mason – former slave who became entrepreneur, landowner, philanthropist and cofounder of First AME Church Aimee Semple McPherson – founder of Angelus Temple and the Church of the Four Square Gospel Dr. Henrietta Mears – renowned Sunday School curriculum pioneer named as one of the outstanind religious leaders of the 20th Century by Christianity Today Magazine. Gloria Molina – first woman elected to L.A. County Board of Supervisors Beverly O’Neill – first woman mayor of Long Beach Mary Pickford – actress and cofounder of United Artists Sally Ride – astronaut and first American woman in space Christine Sterling – leader of Olvera Street restoration Harriet Strong – agriculturist, inventor, activist, first woman elected to L.A. Chamber of Commerce Loretta Thompson-Glickman - first African American female Mayor of Pasadena and first African American female member (volunteer) of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association. Dr. Sarah Vasen - first Jewish woman doctor in L.A. and first superintendent and resident physician of Kaspare Cohn Hospital (later Cedars-Sinai Hospital) Dr. Vada Watson Sommerville - first African American woman licensed to practice dentistry in California and co-founder of the historic Dunbar Hotel and the Los Angeles Chapter of the NAACP Alice Stebbin Wells – first woman police officer in U.S. (LAPD) Mary Workman – “Catholic conscience of L.A.,” social work pioneer and kindergarten education pioneer Carmen Zapata – founder of Bilingual Foundation of the Arts “Rosie the Riveter” – thousands of unnamed women who sustained the aviation war industry during WWII
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