Living Legends

The American Academy of Nursing is proud to recognize the most stellar Fellows who epitomize nursing's proud history and serve as role models for all of us. The following nurses are honored as Living Legends in recognition of the multiple contributions these individuals have made to our profession and our society and in recognition of the continuing impact of these contributions on the provision of health care services in the United States and throughout the world.

2012 LIVING LEGENDS
Anne J. Davis
Mi Ja Kim
Nola J. Pender
Muriel A. Poulin

2011 LIVING LEGENDS
Patricia Benner
Suzanne Feetham
Ada Sue Hinshaw
Meridean L. Maas
May L. Wykle

2010 LIVING LEGENDS
Billye J. Brown
Donna K. Diers*
Norma M. Lang
Barbara L. Nichols
Betty Smith Williams

2009 LIVING LEGENDS
Barbara M. Brodie
Leah Curtain
Marjory Gordon
Ruby Leila Wilson

2008 LIVING LEGENDS

Gene Cranston Anderson
Helen Grace
Margaret A. Newman
Robert Piemonte
Phyllis Stern

2007 LIVING LEGENDS
Marie J. Cowan*
Phyllis G. Ethridge*
Carrie B. Lenburg
Margaret L. McClure
Sister Callista Roy
Gloria R. Smith

2006 LIVING LEGENDS
Kathryn E. Barnard
Sister Rosemary Donley
Marlene Kramer
Angela B. McBride
Ellen B. Rudy

2005 LIVING LEGENDS
Joyce C. Clifford*
Jean E. Johnson
Imogene M. King*
Joan E. Lynaugh

2004 LIVING LEGENDS
Florence S. Downs*
Juanita W. Fleming
Edith Patton Lewis*
Sally Ann Sample
Shirley A. Smoyak

2003 LIVING LEGENDS
Signe S. Cooper
Ira P. Gunn*
Ramona T. Mercer

2002 LIVING LEGENDS
Lillian Sholtis Brunner
Rhetaugh Graves Dumas*
Virginia K. Saba
Gladys E. Sorensen

2001 LIVING LEGENDS
Susan Gortner*
Mary Starke Harper*
Lucie Kelly
Ruth Lubic
Florence Wald*

2000 LIVING LEGENDS
Geraldene Felton
Jeanne Benoliel*
Shirley Chater
Thelma Schorr

1999 LIVING LEGENDS
Grayce Sills
Margretta Madden Styles*
Loretta Ford
Connie Holleran

1998 LIVING LEGENDS
Vernice Ferguson
Claire Fagin
Madeline Leininger*

1997 LIVING LEGENDS
Mabel Wandelt*
Mary Kelly Mullane*
Jo Eleanor Elliott*
Doris Schwartz*
Mary Woody*
Anne Zimmerman*

1996 LIVING LEGENDS
Clifford Jordan*
Mary V. Neal*
Dorothy M. Smith*

1995 LIVING LEGENDS
Luther Christman*
Rheba de Tornyay
Virginia Ohlson*
Rozella Scholtfeldt*

1994 LIVING LEGENDS
Faye Abdellah
Myrtle Aydelotte*
Mary Elizabeth Carnegie*
Ildaura Murrillo-Rohde*
Hildegard Peplau*
Jessie Scott*
Harriet Werley*

*Deceased

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