Alumni

Patricia Dallas Horoho

Published on September 7, 2018

President Barack Obama nominated Horoho to serve as the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army...

President Barack Obama nominated Horoho to serve as the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army...

After graduating with a nursing degree in 1982, Horoho went on to a distinguished career in the U.S. Army. When the Pentagon was attacked on September 11, 2001, she was one of the first to provide first aid. In 2011, when President Barack Obama nominated Horoho to serve as the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army, she became the first female and the first nurse to hold the post.

This is story number 150 in the Carolina Stories 225th Anniversary Edition magazine.

Readers Also Viewed...

Drafted model of the Nursing Education Building
Health

Building the Future

Anonymous gift to UNC School of Nursing supports new facility to expand capacity

Community

Health Equity on the Move

Students learn public health nursing at mobile drive-thru nursing clinics

Portrait of Katherine Nell Acierno
Student Support

A Legacy of Love

Championing birth support

Side-by-side portraits of Josephine Dallas and her daughter Patricia Dallas Horoho
Military

A Gift Reaching Generations

General Patty Horoho establishes scholarship in memory of her late mother

Portrait of Whitney Nobel standing in front of the Old Well
Student Support

Stepping Ahead

Carolina Covenant Scholar Whitney Noble made her way to nursing school at UNC-Chapel Hill through her own hard work and a little help from C-STEP.

UNC Nursing student administering vaccine.
Health

Historic Experiences

Carolina nursing students are fighting COVID-19 — one vaccine at a time