Wilma Leona Jackson
Wilma Leona Jackson | |
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| Nickname(s) | Leona |
| Born | September 1, 1909 Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal National Defense Service Medal |
| Alma mater | Columbia University (BS, MA) |
Wilma Leona Jackson was an American nurse and military official who served as the third director of the United States Navy Nurse Corps, serving in that position from 1954 to 1958.
Early life and education
Wilma Leona Jackson was born to Roy and Carrie (Furnas) Class in
Career
Leona Jackson was appointed to the
In 1940, then-Ensign Jackson was assigned to the Naval Hospital,
Jackson was promoted to lieutenant (junior grade) in 1943 and then, in 1944, she was assigned to the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Washington, D.C. After her promotion to lieutenant in 1944, she returned to Guam where she was assigned to Fleet Hospital #103. She was the senior nurse corps officer in the Island Command until her transfer in December 1945.
Jackson served as an education officer in the Nursing Section of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in 1950 and as a nurse at the Naval Hospital Oakland in 1952. She became the chief nurse of the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in 1953. She became director of the United States Navy Nurse Corps in 1954 and retired in 1958.
Personal life
Jackson retired to Ohio. She died on 23 March 1998 at the Veteran's Administration Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio, and is buried at Polk Grove Cemetery in Vandalia, Ohio.
Further reading
- Leona Jackson. "I Was on Guam". The American Journal of Nursing, Volume 42, Number 11 (November, 1942), pages 1244–1246.
- "Nurse Prescribes Navy For Wedding Belles". Stars and Stripes, May 8, 1954.
- "New Navy Nurse Director". Stars and Stripes, March 8, 1954.
- Sterner, Doris M. (1997). In and Out of Harm's Way: A History of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. ISBN 0-89716-706-6.
- Ebbert, Jean; Hall, Marie-Beth (1999). Crossed Currents: Navy Women from WWI to Tailhook (revised ed.). ISBN 978-1-57488-193-6.
- Godson, Susan H. (2001). Serving Proudly: A History of Women in the U.S. Navy. ISBN 1-55750-317-6. Account of the evolution of the roles of women in the United States Navy, treating the parallel and intertwined paths of the Navy Nurse Corps and the WAVES.
References
- ^ Navy Medicine. Naval Medical Command. 1998.
- ^ Jackson, Wilma; Stillwell, Paul; Stillwell, Paul; Stillwell, Paul (1999). The Reminiscences of Captain Wilma Leona Jackson, Nurse Corps, U.S. Navy (Retired). Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute.
- ^ Navy Medicine. Naval Medical Command. 1998.
- ISBN 978-1-61251-123-8.
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