Sandra Williams Ortega

Sandra Williams Ortega

Sandra Williams Ortega was an officer in the U.S. Air Force for the state of Maryland. She is known as the first African American woman in the state to have an officer commission in the Air Force and was accepted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 2018. She was born in 1937 in Baltimore.^[1][2][3]

References

1. "Sandra Williams Ortega, Ph.D., Maryland Women's Hall of Fame". msa.maryland.gov. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
2. Johnson, Charles Jr. (2002-05-06). African Americans and ROTC: Military, Naval and Aeroscience Programs at Historically Black Colleges, 1916-1973. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-1324-9.
3. The World Who's who of Women. Melrose Press. 1994. p. 412. ISBN 978-0-948875-36-6.