Virginia Y. Trotter

(1921-1998) lived in Lincoln. Nutritionist, educator, administrator, first woman to occupy the position of vice chancellor for academic affairs at a land-grant university in 1972 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Assistant Secretary of Education in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1974, the highest educational post a woman had held in the government at the time, became first female vice president for academic affairs at the University of Georgia, was a role model for women in higher education. Consult New York Times, April 25, 1974, p. 50 and Lincoln Journal Star obituary, October 13, 1998, pp. B-1, B-2.

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