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Some Achievements of Our Edikanfo

21. Mrs. Moore - First Female Vice President (Methodist Church)
1. Professor D. Florence Dolphyne (’55) - First Female Pro-vice Chancellor, University of 22. Mrs. Florence Martey - First Female Marine Radio Engineer
Ghana, Legon
23. Prof. Mrs. Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu & Prof. Anne Marie Ofori (’75)- First Women to
2. Dr. Mrs. Sylvia Boye (’57) - First Female Registrar, West African Examinations Council obtain First Class in Law
(WAEC)
24. Mrs. Eva Bentil-Enchill - First Female Engineer of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
3. Mrs. Mary Chinery-Hesse - First Female Director of International Labour Organisation,
United Nations 25. Mrs. Comfort L. V. Opoku (’65) - First Female Surveyor
4. SQ. LDR. Melody Danquah - First Female Pilot of the Air Force 26. Dr. Gertrude Ayorkor Korsah (neé Mills-Tetteh) (’95) - First Female Student to win
5. Dr. Mrs. Mary Grant - First Female Medical Doctor; First Female Member of the Council the National Excellence Award instituted by the WAEC for overall Best candidate in the
Science programme
of State and Deputy Secretary for Health (PNDC)
27. Ms. Araba Quansah (’65) - First Female Actuarial Scientist in West Africa
6. Nana Ama Yeboah (’56) - First Female Deputy Governor of Bank of Ghana
28. Rev. Ama Afo Blay (’61) - First Female Director General, Ghana Education Service
7. Mrs. Felicity Mensah - First Female Deputy Auditor General
29. Dr. Dorcas Osei-Safo - First Female Doctor in Chemistry, U. C. C.
8. Mrs. Peace Ayisi-Otchere (’63) - First Female Executive Director of the African
Development Bank 30. Mrs. Elsie Yao - First Headmistress to head a mixed school – Christian Methodist
9. Mrs. Irene Duncan-Adanusah (’70) - First Female Secretary General of the Ghana Secondary School
National Association of Teachers (G.N.A.T.) 31. Hajia Alima Mahama (’75) - Second Female Minister of the Ministry of Women &
10. Mrs. Comfort Engmann (’45) - First President of Women World Banking Children’s Affairs
32. Mrs. Dinah Ayensu - First Lady Industrialist in Tourism
11. Dr. Mrs. Rosina Acheampong (’58) - First Ghanaian Headmistress of the School; First
Female Deputy Director General, Ghana Education Service (G.E.S.) 33. Mrs. Justice Theodora Georgina Wood (’64) - First Female Justice of Chief Republic of
12. Prof. Mrs. Efua A. J. Hesse (’69)- First Female Paediatric Surgeon Ghana
34. Prof. Naana J. Opoku-Agyeman (’69) - First Female Vice Chancellor
13. Mrs. Janet Opoku Acheampong - First Female Director General of Internal Revenue
Service (I.R.S). 35. Mrs. Eva Lokko (’69) – First Female Vice Presidential Candidate for a political party
14. Mrs. Ayodele Akiwumi - First Female Head of the Nursing School, University of Ghana (PPP); Director General of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC)
36. Ms. Patience Akyianu (’86) – First Female Managing Director of Barclays Bank
15. Lt. Col. Edjewani Afenu - First Female Commanding Officer of the Army Pay Office
37. Captain Vincentia Brempong (’92) – First Female Commercial Pilot
16. Prof. Anna Barnes - First Female Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ghana,
Legon 38. Dr. Sandra A. N. A. Crabbe (neé Quarcopome) (’92)– First Female Locally Trained
17. Mrs. Gladys Asmah - First Minister of the Ministry of Women & Children’s Affairs Chemical Pathologist
39. Gloria Ethel Otoo, PhD (’92) – First Female to receive a First Class in Nutrition and Food
18. Mrs. Agnes Aggrey- Orleans - First Female Career Diplomat to become an Ambassador Science at the University of Ghana, Legon
19. Dr. Mrs. Emma Entuah-Mensah - First Female Doctor in Acquatic Biology 40. Naval Lieutenant Cdr Naa Ayele Akwei-Aryee (’94) – First Female Naval Legal Officer
20. Rev. Ethel Vanderpuije - First Female Minister of Religion (Methodist Church, Ghana)

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