GEORGIA NUMBERS by the

SUSIE BAKER

KING TAYLOR, a formerly enslaved woman, becomes the first federally funded teacher in the state of Georgia and one of the first African American nurses in the U.S. to administer battlefield care to soldiers.

1912

GRACE TOWNS

HAMILTON was the first African American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly.

JULIETTE GORDON

LOW founds the Girl Scouts, to create “a movement where all girls could come together and embrace their unique strengths and passions.” What began as one troop of 18 girls, inspired by the Boy Scouts, is now the largest leadership organization in the world for girls.

HELEN DOUGLAS

MANKIN, a lawyer, legislator, and politician born in Atlanta, was the first woman elected to Congress from Georgia.

GEORGIA TECH admits its first two full-time female students.

LEAH WARD SEARS is appointed by Gov. Zell Miller, Supreme Court’s first woman and youngest-ever justice. She would later become the first Black woman state supreme court chief justice in the country.

MEG PIRKLE becomes GDOT’s first female Chief Engineer.