Connor, Connie Yerwood, 1908-1991
Connie Ralstine Yerwood Connor (ca. 1908 - June 11, 1991) was a pioneer in public health in Texas and the first Black physician named to the Texas Public Health Service (now the Texas Department of Health). She was born in Victoria, Texas, in 1908.
Both Connor and her sister, Joyce, would go along with their father, Dr. Charles R. Yerwood, when he made house calls in Gonzales County before they moved to Austin. Witnessing their father practice medicine was enough to put both women on their paths into the medical field. Connor attended public school in Austin and graduated from the Samuel Huston College Academy in 1925 and received the bachelor of arts degree cum laude from Samuel Huston College (now Huston-Tillotson College). In 1933, she graduated cum laude from Meharry Medical School in Nashville, TN. Connor finished her residency in pediatrics at Kansas City General Hospital. Though Connor began her residency in pediatrics, she became interested in public health and shifted the focus of her studies, earning a scholarship to study public health at the University of Michigan.
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