Jocelyn (Jones) Elders

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Preceded by 14th Surgeon General

Jocelyn Elders 15th Surgeon General of USA 1993 - 1994

Succeeded by 16th Surgeon General

Biography

Jocelyn (Jones) Elders is Notable.

Minnie was born in 1933 in Schaal, Arkansas to Curtis and Haller (Halla) Jones.

Minnie attended Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. While attending college, Minnie Lee Jones her name to Minnie Jocelyn Lee.

She married Oliver Elders, a high school basketball coach.

In 1987, Jocelyn Elders was appointed by then Governor of Arkansas, Bill Cllinton, as the director of the state's Department of Public Health.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ "Black Woman recommended to replace Saltzman as Health Department head," The Baxter Bulletin, 25 Jul 1987, p. 8A, col. 4.

See also:

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQVB-8LW : 8 January 2021), Curtis Jones, Franklin Township, Howard, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 31-15, sheet 4A, line 30, family 70, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 142.
• Wikidata: Item Q4793645, en:Wikipedia