Nannie Jacquelin Minor

1871-1934
Old Dominion Hospital Training School,
Richmond, Virginia, 1900

• Charter member of the Virginia State Association of Nurses (now Virginia Nurses Association)
• First Staff Nurse and later Director of the Nurses Settlement, Richmond, Virginia
• Original member of the Virginia State Board of Examiners of Nurses
• First Director of the Bureau of Public Health Nursing, Virginia Department of Health

Nannie Jacquelin Minor lives today in the work of the Virginia Nurses Association, the Virginia Board of Nursing, The Instructive Visiting Nurse Association of Richmond (IVNA) and wherever public health nursing exists in the Commonwealth. For twenty years, she led the IVNA in providing care to the citizens of Richmond. As the founding director of the Bureau of Public Health Nursing in Virginia, she established forty-five public health nursing services throughout the state.

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"As sure as any woman who came to Jamestown, she was a pioneer; but she was more than a pioneer. Her dream was not that of some new adventure beyond the traveled world; it was that of a city eased of pain, a social order free of injustice, a society of happiness."

Douglas Southall Freeman, Richmond News Leader, January 31, 1934