Dr. Edith Irby Jones

Edith Irby Jones, a Knoxville College alumna, was the first Black student to attend the University of Arkansas School of Medicine and later the first woman president of the National Medical Association. She practiced in Houston for decades.

First African American student at the University of Arkansas medical school.
First woman president of the National Medical Association.
Inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame in 1987.