Background
Elders was born Minnie Lee Jones in Schaal, Arkansas, to a poor farm sharecropping family, and was the eldest of eight children. The family also spent two years near a defense plant in Richmond, California.
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2005
Doctor educator military writer
Elders was born Minnie Lee Jones in Schaal, Arkansas, to a poor farm sharecropping family, and was the eldest of eight children. The family also spent two years near a defense plant in Richmond, California.
Elders graduated from Philander Smith College in 1952 and University of Arkansas Medical School with a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1960. She also graduated from University of Arkansas with a Master of Science degree in 1967.
Elders received a Doctor of Science degree from Bates College in 2002.
After working as a nurse's aide in a Veterans Administration hospital in Milwaukee for a period, Elders joined the United States Army in May 1953. During her 3 years in the Army, she was trained as a physical therapist. Then she became a pediatric intern at University of Minnesota Hospital in 1960. In 1961 she became a pediatric resident at University of Arkansas Medical Center and during 13 years, she was promoted to professor of pediatrics.
In 1987, then-governor Bill Clinton appointed Elders as Director of the Arkansas Department of Health, making her the first African American woman in the state to hold this position. In 1992, she was elected President of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers.
She also served as a surgeon general of the United States in Washington, D.C. in 1993 and 1994.
Joycelyn Elders currently works as a professor emerita of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She is also a contributor of numerous articles on medical matters, including hormone-related illnesses and children’s growth patterns, to professional journals.
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1997
Elders married Oliver B. Elders on February 14 in 1960. They have children: Eric D. and Kevin M.