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She is currently a professor emerita of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences . Early life and education. Elders was born Minnie Lee Jones in Schaal, Arkansas, [2] to a poor, farm sharecropping family, and was the eldest of eight children, and valedictorian of her school class. [3] .
Apr 26, 2024 · She earned a degree in biochemistry from the university (M.S., 1967) and joined the faculty at the medical school in 1967, rising to full professor by 1976. Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton appointed Elders to the office of director of public health in 1987.
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In 1996 she wrote her autobiography, Joycelyn Elders, M.D.: From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America. Now retired from practice, she is a professor emeritus at the University of Arkansas School of Medicine, and remains active in public health education.
Sep 20, 2017 · She earned a four-year scholarship to attend Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas where she received her B.S. degree in biology in 1952. In 1960, Elders earned her M.D. degree and her M.S. degree in biochemistry in 1967 from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas.
May 29, 2018 · Born Joycelyn Minnie Jones, August 13, 1933, in Schaal, AR; daughter of Curtis and Haller Jones; married Oliver B. Elders (a high school basketball coach), February 14, 1960; children: Eric and Kevin. Education: Philander Smith College, B.A., 1952; received M.D. from University of Arkansas School of Medicine.
Jan 15, 2021 · Published: 2021-01-15. Minnie Joycelyn Elders, known as Joycelyn Elders, is a pediatrician and professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1953, Elders began to work with the US Army, where she trained as a physical therapist, being the only African American woman in her training class.
Mar 18, 2024 · Joycelyn Elders was born Minnie Lee Jones on August 13, 1933, in Schaal (Howard County). She took the name Joycelyn while attending college. The eldest of Curtis and Haller Jones’s eight children, she spent much of her childhood working in cotton fields.
