Year Inducted
1993
Career Field
Nursing, Novelist
Highlights
- Former Dean of the KU School of Nursing
- Acclaimed author of mystery novels starring a nurse sleuth
- Elected Class President in nursing school despite challenge of being a widowed mother of five children
- Former President of the professional nursing organization Sigma Theta Tau International
- Author of an award-winning textbook on nursing management
- Named to the “Who’s Who in Health Care” by the Kansas City Business Journal
- On the Board of Directors of Sisters in Crime, an international organization supporting women mystery writers