Regina Benjamin became the first African-American woman to be elected to the American Medical Association Board of Trustees

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In 1995, Regina Benjamin, MD, a family doctor in the shrimping village of Bayou La Batre, Alabama, became the first African-American woman, and the first person under 40, to be elected to the American Medical Association Board of Trustees.

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Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Credit: Photo: Courtesy of U.S. Dept of HHS