Theta Mead was the first public health nurse of Lincoln County and an early advocate for public health.

Signe Skott Cooper was a World War II army nurse and an influential nursing professor.

Japanese American nursing educator Dr. May Shiga Hornback introduced innovative televised and telephone-based nursing instruction to students across Wisconsin.

Barbara Nichols was the first African American president of the Wisconsin Nurses Association and of the American Nurses Association.

Janet Jennings, a news reporter, became known as “the Angel of the Seneca” for her heroic nursing work during the Spanish-American War.

Cordelia Harvey became known as the Wisconsin Angel for her work as a nurse and advocate for soldiers during the U.S. Civil War.

Ellen Ainsworth, a nurse in the US Army Nurse Corps, was the only woman from Wisconsin to die from enemy fire in World War II.