Elders, Joycelyn, 1933-

LC control no.	n 93088223
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Elders, Joycelyn, 1933- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Elders, M. Joycelyn, 1933- Elders, Minnie Joycelyn, 1933- Jones, Minnie Lee, 1933- Lee, Minnie Joycelyn, 1933-
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1933-08-13
Place of birth	Schaal (Ark.)
Field of activity	Pediatrics Public health
Affiliation	Philander Smith College University of Minnesota University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General
Profession or occupation	Physicians College teachers Health officers
Found in	Dancing with the bears, 1993: CIP t.p. (M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D., U.S. Surgeon General) Joycelyn Elders, M.D., 1997: t.p. (Joycelyn Elders) Surgeon General.gov, viewed Sept. 16, 2014 (M. Joycelyn Elders (1993-1994); Joycelyn Elders was born Minnie Lee Jones in Schaal, Arkansas on August 13, 1933. In college, she changed her name to Minnie Joycelyn Lee (later using just Joycelyn). In 1952, she received her B.A. in biology from Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. She then attended the University of Arkansas Medical School, where she obtained her M.D. degree in 1960. After completing an internship at the University of Minnesota Hospital and a residency in pediatrics at the University of Arkansas Medical Center, Elders earned an M.S. in Biochemistry in 1967. Elders became Surgeon General of the Public Health Service on September 8, 1993, appointed by President Clinton. She was the first African American to serve in the position) Wikipedia, Sept. 16, 2014 (Joycelyn Elders; Minnie Joycelyn Elders; birth name: Minnie Lee Jones; born August 13, 1933 in Schaal, Arkansas; pediatrician and public health administrator. She was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the first African American appointed as Surgeon General of the United States. Elders is best known for her frank discussion of her views on controversial issues such as drug legalization and distributing contraception in schools. She resigned in December 1994 amidst controversy. She is currently a professor emerita of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Minnie Lee Jones; physician, educator, medical scientist, public health official, surgeon general; born 13 August 1933 in Schaal, Arkansas, United States; excelled at the small segregated Howard County Training School in Schaal, graduating as valedictorian at the age of fifteen; began her college career on a full scholarship in 1948 at Philander Smith; joined the sorority, Delta Sigma Theta; began to go by the name of Joycelyn, the middle name she had adopted during childhood; moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and worked as a nurse's aide at the veterans' hospital; joined the Women's Medical Specialist Corps; in 1960 graduated from medical school and completed an internship in pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, and residency in pediatrics with an emphasis on pediatric surgery at the University of Arkansas; served simultaneously as a junior faculty member and completeed a master's degree in Biochemistry; achieved a full professorship and board certification in pediatric endocrinology in 1976; elected president of the Association of State and Territorial Health officers; appointed surgeon general of the Public Health Services (1993)) African American National Biography, accessed January 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Elders, M. Joycelyn; Minnie Jones; physician, educator, medical scientist, public health official, surgeon general; born 13 August 1933 in Schaal, Arkansas, United States; completed medical school at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences as the second black woman to attend (1960); earned a master's in Biochemistry from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; achieved full professorship and board certification in pediatric endocrinology at the University of Arkansas for Meical Sciences (1976); became the first African American and the second woman appointed by Bill Clinton as surgeon general of the Public Health Services of the US (1993); honors include, serving on presidential commissions on public health under President George H. W. Bush; president of the Association of State and Territorial Health officers)
Associated language	eng