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Audrey F. Manley

1934–

United States

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Audrey Forbes Manley (born March 25, 1934) is an American pediatrician and public health administrator. Manley was the first African-American woman appointed as chief resident at Cook County Children's Hospital in Chicago (1962), as well as the first to achieve the rank of assistant surgeon general (rear admiral) in 1988. She later served as the eighth president of Spelman College.

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