In 1911 Lenah Higbee became the second Superintendent of the Nurse Corps. She directed that Corps through the First World War, was the first woman to be awarded the Navy Cross, and was also the first woman to have a U.S. Navy Warship named for her.
Sponsored by:
Lenah
Sutcliff
Higbee
May 18, 1874
–
January 10, 1941
Awards Received
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Navy Cross
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Navy Cross
Service:
United States NavyRank:
SuperintendentDivision:
Nurse CorpsAction Date:
1918
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Superintendent Lenah Sutcliff Higbee, United States Navy, for distinguished service in the line of her profession and unusual and conspicuous devotion to duty as Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps during World War I.