Liebe Sokol Diamond

orthopedic surgeon and an inductee of the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame

congenital abnormality causing the loss of several of her fingers and toes before birth.^[2] She underwent more than 25 surgical procedures before reaching the age of 13.^[3]

Western High School

orthopedic surgeon, returned to the University of Pennsylvania to obtain a degree in orthopedics.^[2] After graduating in 1955, she became the first female resident at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and the hospital's first female orthopedic surgical resident in 1957.^[4] After completing her residency in 1960, she became a certified orthopedic surgeon in 1963.^[3] Diamond became the 14th woman to become certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery

University of Maryland for 35 years, from 1961 until 1996. She became the first President of the Ruth Jackson Society of Women Orthopedic Surgeons in 1983. In 1996, she was awarded a Smith College medal, for making the best use of a liberal arts education. She was inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 2006.^[3]

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, marrying in the fall of 1960. She gave birth six years later to a son named Joshua Moses on July 16, 1966.^[2] She and her family were fans of the outdoors; they camped, hiked, paddled canoes, rode horses, skied cross country, among many other activities. In the summer, they were regular fixtures in Grand Teton National Park as well as Yellowstone National Park, where she was an authority on Great Fountain Geyser. She was also a fixture at the Everglades National Park in the winter. Enamored with the outdoors, she often drove long distances across the United States from her home in Maryland to various national and state parks