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James Woody is an American college football coach and former player. From 2011 to 2014, he served as the head football coach at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina. Woody played college football as a quarterback at Central State University in…
1974–
Jami Valentine Miller (born December 3, 1974) is a patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She was the first African American woman to graduate with a PhD in physics from Johns Hopkins University. She created the website…
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Jamie Adjetey-Nelson (born May 20, 1984) is a Canadian athlete who competes in the decathlon. He grew up in Windsor, Ontario and was a part of their track and field team, the University of Windsor Athletics club, and the University of Windsor track and…
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Jamie Theresa Phelps (October 24, 1941 – November 22, 2025) was an African-American Catholic theologian known for her contributions to womanist theology. She was the first Black member of the Adrian Dominican Sisters.
1918–2022
Jamye Coleman Williams (December 15, 1918 – January 19, 2022) was an American activist for social reform and justice, a scholar, and a leader within academe and the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.).
1948–
Janice Dean Willis, or Jan Willis (born 1948) is Professor of Religion, Emerita at Wesleyan University, where she taught from 1977 to 2013; and the author of books on Tibetan Buddhism. She has been called influential by Time Magazine, Newsweek (cover…
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Jane Eleanor "Nellie" Datcher (1868 – February 24, 1934) was an American botanist and the first African-American woman to earn an advanced degree from Cornell University in 1890. She worked as a teacher at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. and was a…
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Jane Ellen McAllister (24 October 1899 – 10 January 1996) was an American educator. She was the first African American woman to earn a PhD in Education in the United States, and the first African American female in the world to be a doctoral candidate in…
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Jane Hinton (May 1, 1919 – April 9, 2003) was a pioneer in the study of bacterial antibiotic resistance and one of the first two African-American women to gain the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (1949). Prior to her veterinary medicine studies at…
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Jane Clark Putnam was a prominent abolitionist in Boston. She came from a family considered to be part of the educated Black elite of the northern states. She was the wife of George Putnam and the mother of the noted educator Georgiana Frances Putnam.…
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Jane Rose Waring Roberts (née Waring; c. 1819 – January 10, 1914) emigrated as a child with her free African American family to the Colony of Liberia, where she was educated and grew up as a member of the Americo-Liberian community. She married politician…
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Janelle K. Sarauw is a U.S. Virgin Islander politician and former educator who served as senator in the Legislature of the Virgin Islands from the St. Thomas-St. John District, from 2017 to 2023.
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Janet Dees is an American curator and art historian who is serving as the Assistant Director of Arts of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Dees is an expert on African, African-American, and Spanish colonial art,…
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Janete Rocha Pietá is a Brazilian politician, teacher, and architect. She was a member of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies representing São Paulo for the Workers' Party from 2007 to 2015. In 2016, she was elected to the City Council of Guarulhos.
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Janice B. Walker is an American mathematician who taught and served as an administrator at Xavier University in Cincinnati and Assistant to the President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer there.
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Janice McKenzie Cole is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina (1994–2001) under President Bill Clinton. During her tenure as U.S. Attorney, she helped introduce five communities to the…
1943–
Janice Green Douglas (born 1943) is an American physician, the first woman professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She is a fellow of the American Heart Association and known for her research on cellular control of blood pressure…
1977–
Janice K. Jackson (born May 22, 1977) is an American educator, educational administrator and former schools superintendent. Jackson was the CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, the school district's superintendent position, from December 8, 2017, until June…
1981–
Janice Lynn Mather (born December 29, 1981) is a Bahamian-born Canadian writer and author of young adult fiction based in British Columbia. Mather moved to Canada in 2002 to study creative writing. She obtained a B.A. and M.A. in fine arts from the…
1955–2014
Janice Scroggins (July 17, 1955 – May 27, 2014) was a jazz pianist and instructor in Portland, Oregon.
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Janice Bell Underwood is an American educator who was the first director of United States Office of Personnel Management's Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility and the governmentwide chief diversity officer from 2022 to 2024. She is…
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Janie Porter Barrett (née Porter; August 9, 1865 – August 27, 1948) was an American social reformer, educator and welfare worker. She established the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, a pioneering rehabilitation center for African-American…
1985–
Janina M. Jeff (juh-NEE-nuh; born September 10, 1985) is a US-based geneticist and a senior scientist at Illumina. She is specifically interested in identifying genetic variants that explain disease disparities across populations, as well as science…
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Janine Mireille Irons is a British music educator, artist manager and producer, who in 1991 co-founded with her partner Gary Crosby the music education and professional development organisation Tomorrow's Warriors, of which she is Chief Executive. In 1997,…
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