Halle Tanner Dillon, 1891

Halle Tanner Dillon (1864-1901) was the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in the state of Alabama. She is shown here (encircled, top right) with the 1891 graduation class of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.

Historic group portrait of women medical students posed in rows, with one student marked by a circle near the upper right.
Photo courtesy of the Legacy Center Archives, Drexel College of Medicine
Historic group portrait of women medical students posed in rows, with one student marked by a circle near the upper right.