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M'Lis Ward

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Melissa "M'Lis" Ward is a United Airlines pilot, the first African-American female captain in commercial passenger aviation, according to Ebony magazine. Her mother, Anne B. Ward, was one of the first two black women to graduate from the Pritzker School of Medicine. Ward was brought up in the South Side of Chicago and attended Whitney Young High School.

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