Lt. Kara Spears Hultgreen, U.S. Navy - Was the first female pilot killed after the Department of Defense Risk rule was rescinded. Lt. Hultgreen was one of the first U.S. Navy female combat pilots. (60/7710)

Commodore (Rear Adm. lower half) Grace Murray Hopper U.S. Navy - Was a mathematician, and a pioneer in data processing and computer science. (59/973)

Maj. Marie Therese Rossi, U.S. Army - Was a female helicopter pilot killed the day after the cease fire which ended Operation Desert Storm (the Persian Gulf War). (8/9872) CC-10.5

Constance Bennett - Acted in more than 50 films, including 1937 "Topper," married Brig. Gen. Coulter (last of five husbands) (3/2231) P13.

Jane Delano - Second superintendent of Army Nurse Corps 1909-12, active with the Red Cross during World War II (21/6)

Margariette Higgins - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, only woman correspondent during Korean War (2/4705)

Juanita Hipps - Wrote "I Served on Bataan", best seller in 1943 and basis for movie "So Proudly We Hail," World War II Army Nurse (21/769).

Juliet O. Hopkins - "Florence Nightingale of South" during the Civil War (1/12).

Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee - First woman Army surgeon in 1898, founder of the Army Nurse Corps in 1900 (1/526B).

Katherine Marshall - Wrote Together, an autobiography about her life with Gen. George C. Marshall (7/8198)

Barbara Rainey - First woman pilot in the Navy, killed while training another pilot in an air accident (6/5813).

Mary Randolph - First person buried on grounds that became Arlington Cemetery, cousin of Mary Custis, wife of Gen. Robert E. Lee, wrote The Virginia Housewife, a best seller in late 1700s (45/T-36).

Vinnie Ream - Sculpted Lincoln statue in Capitol at age 18. First woman artist to be commissioned by the government and last artist whom Lincoln sat for before his death; sculpted many other statues including Sappho, the poetess, above her grave (3/1876).

Mary Robert Rinehart - America's first woman war correspondent during World War I for the Saturday Evening Post; wrote mystery novels, including The Circular Staircase and The Bat; in 1921 was referred to as "America's Mistress of Mystery." (3/4269)

Fay Bainter - Actress during silent films (wife of Lt. Cmdr. Reginald Venable).

Cmdr. Beatrice V. Ball - U.S. Coast Guard reserves, senior officer in SPARS (women's Coast Guard unit) founded in World War II.

Lt. Ollie Josephine B. Bennett - Pioneer woman Army doctor during World War I.

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