Mabel Elizabeth Montgomery

Mabel Elizabeth Montgomery
1902-1989
St. Louis City Hospital School of Nursing
St. Louis, Missouri, 1927

• Secretary-Treasurer and administrative officer of the Virginia State Board of Nurse Examiners for twenty-three years
• President of the Missouri League of Nursing Education and the Virginia League of Nursing Education (later Viriginia League for Nursing)
• First Vice President of the American Nurses Association
• Advisor to the National Student Nurses Association from the American Nurses Association
  

Mabel E. Montgomery, an outstanding educator and administrator, was the third of a triumvirate of leaders who served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Virginia Board of Examiners of Nurses for fifty years beginning in 1920. Following in the footsteps of Ethel Smith and Josephine McLeod, Montgomery made her mark on Virginia nursing through her work with the Board of Examiners. She has the distinction of serving as a member of the Board for almost thirty years, longer than any other person. In 1970 with the reenactment of the Virginia Nurse Practice Act, she became the first Executive Secretary for the renamed Virginia State Board of Nursing.

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[Mabel Montgomery] "is held in the highest esteem not only by her colleagues but also by those in allied health groups. A person who is extremely knowledgeable in nursing, she has many personal attributes that make her a valued friend and co-worker--a sharp, retentive memory and recall, keen insight, and perceptual acuity, superior directive and managerial ability, an unusual sense of humor, empathy and sympathy, high standards and unquestioned integrity."

Dorsye Russell, RN
VNA Distinguished Service Award, 1969