14 Facts About Mildred Trotter

Mildred Trotter was an American pioneer as a forensic historian and forensic anthropologist.

Mildred Trotter was hired by the Washington University in St Louis as a researcher in the School of Medicine and Department of Anatomy.

Mildred Trotter received a Master's in 1921, and a Ph.

Mildred Trotter returned to Washington University School of Medicine the following year and was promoted to assistant professor by Robert J Terry, the head of the Department of Anatomy.

Cowdry, and being evaluated by a committee, Trotter was finally promoted to full professor of Gross Anatomy, becoming the first woman to hold that rank at Washington University.

In 1948, Mildred Trotter was granted a 14-month leave of absence from Washington University, to work with the US Army's Graves Registration Service, at the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii.

Mildred Trotter's job was to help identify the remains of US servicemen and servicewomen.

Mildred Trotter's laboratory identified 94 percent of the remains analyzed.

In 1958, Mildred Trotter became Professor of Anatomy, holding that position until 1967, when she became subject to mandatory retirement at the age of 68.

Mildred Trotter was a founding member of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and their first woman president.

Mildred Trotter was president of the Missouri State Anatomical Board from 1957 to 1967, and president of the St Louis Anatomical Board from 1941 to 1948 and from 1949 to 1967.

Mildred Trotter was named as a Woman of Achievement in science in 1955, by the St Louis Globe-Democrat.

Mildred Trotter was the first woman to receive the Viking Fund Medal in Physical Anthropology from the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in 1956.

The Mildred Trotter Prize, named in her honor for her work on skeletal biology, is given to students for exceptional work in the field of physical anthropology.