Minnie A. Stoner of Boston was recruited to direct a University Boarding Club and to start cooking classes. She held the baccalaureate degree from South Dakota Agricultural College and a diploma for postgraduate work from the Boston Normal School of Household Arts. Beginning in the spring of 1896, she conducted cooking classes, using Bunsen burners … Continued

In 1902 Lilian Wyckoff Johnson joined the UT faculty as an assistant professor of history and was the first female faculty member to hold the PhD. She received the BA from the University of Michigan and had been an instructor of history at Vassar College before earning the PhD from Cornell. She additionally taught courses … Continued

Florence Vane Skeffington (1870–1922) earned the AB in 1887 and the AM in 1889 from Mary Sharp College (Winchester, Tennessee). She attended the University of Chicago in 1896–98 and earned the AB. She taught at the Dyersburg (Tennessee) High School and was principal of the Preparatory Department at Judson Institute in 1890–91. She was an … Continued

Females first received bachelor’s degrees from the university in 1895. Elma Eliza Rachel Ellis received the BA in the Literary Course; Eliza Lucy Ogden received the BA in the Scientific Course. Both students were transfers to UT.

When Dr. Eleanor Myers Green of the University of Missouri College of Medicine became head of the Department of Rural Practice in the College of Veterinary Medicine in 1990, she became the first female to head a UT veterinary clinical department—and the first to do so at any veterinary college in the United States. She … Continued

The Physical Education Department in 1929 initiated the first intramural program for female students. The women suggested which games would be included, formed their own teams, and officiated at their matches.

Maude Riseden from Wartburg was the first female student admitted to the College of Law (1907) and was the first female law graduate (1909) both from the university and in the South.

Professor Judith Ittig, appointed in 1972, was the first female law professor. She left the faculty in 1975.

The first female librarian was Hattie Shields Jarnagin. She was appointed in 1901.

Dr. Nathalia Wright, professor of English, was named macebearer in 1982.