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Brigadier General Carmelita Schimmenti, the first Hispanic female to attain the rank of general officer in the U.S. Air Force.

Lieutenant General Nadja West became the first African American appointed Army Surgeon General and the first African American woman to attain three-star general officer rank.

Army nurse Hazel W. Johnson became first African American woman brigadier (one-star) general and first African American Chief of the Army Nurse Corps.