after her father encouraged her to serve as an officer to help pay for school. From there, she continued to excel. While working as a nurse at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii, she attended ...

After declaring her nursing major, Judge-Ellis took an Army ROTC scholarship to help her pay off nursing school, after which she became an Army officer in the Army Nurse Corps. Over the course of the ...

“I got to travel the world for free,” she told Newsday. Her commission as an officer in the Army Nurse Corps made international news. “It was just part of the job,” she told Newsday in 1978.

The Army offered me a four-year scholarship to a private college to get my bachelor’s degree and become a registered nurse. When I came out, in 2004, I was an officer. The first place they sent ...

That she was an officer was irrelevant ... was the first Black nurse to be commissioned into the regular U.S. Army Nursing Corps — after President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order ...