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Venus Jones: First black graduate from MWC
Date published: 2/16/2005
There was no special fanfare when Venus Romance Jones of Petersburg became the first black woman to graduate from Mary Washington College in June 1968. The facility hadn’t been her first choice. She always wanted to be a doctor and had hoped to do undergraduate work at the University of Virginia, then attend medical school. But U.Va. wouldn’t allow a “girl” in pre-med, and officials suggested she go to Mary Washington first. She did, then earned her medical degree from U.Va. in 1972. Before and after a military career, Jones worked with the less fortunate. She provided medical care to American Indians in Phoenix, then joined the Air Force, where she was chief of neurology at three major military hospitals. After she retired as a lieutenant colonel, she opened a neurology practice in a poor village on the Mississippi Delta. Jones died three years later, in a 2001 car crash. Those who knew her said she made an incredible difference in the community.
Date published: 2/16/2005
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