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Patricia Walker-Shaw

1939–1985

United States

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Patricia Walker-Shaw (July 26, 1939 – June 30, 1985) was elected president of the Universal Life Insurance Company of Memphis, Tennessee, United States in 1983, making her the first woman and first African-American woman to head a major life insurance organization in the United States.

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