Agnes Dillon Randolph

1875-1930
Virginia Hospital Training School for Nurses,
Richmond, Virginia, 1898

• Charter member of the Virginia State Association of Nurses (now Virginia Nurses Association)
• Organized the Tuberculosis Bureau of the Virginia Department of Health
• Twice President of the Graduate Nurses Association of Virginia (now Virginia Nurses Association)
• Spearheaded the development of the Sick Benefit Fund for Nurses and the Catawba Nurses Cottage for nurses with tuberculosis

Agnes Dillon Randolph, a life-long political activist, worked for passage of the act to require registration of nurses. She was instrumental in getting later amendments to the Nurse Practice Act passed including one in 1918 to provide Licensed Attendants to meet the need resulting from the service of registered nurses in the military during World War I. Randolph led the GNAV committee that raised funds to establish the Sadie Heath Cabaniss Chair of Nursing at the University of Virginia. Using her political influence to advance important health issues, she was the driving force behind the legislation that secured funding to establish statewide tuberculosis sanitariums and clinics. Randolph assisted with the establishment of Piedmont Sanitarium for African Americans, the first of its kind in the United States.

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"She was the best lobbyist, male or female, that this generation has seen on Shockoe Hill."

Douglas Southall Freeman Richmond News Leader, 1934