Year Honored: 1996

Birth: 1935

Born in: Dover

Biography

Julie K. Boozer was described as “a creative and innovative genius in health delivery far ahead of her contemporaries.” As a registered nurse and nursing instructor, Boozer’s impact on Delaware’s health system benefitted both health care workers and patients, and what she was promoting in the mid-20th century is now considered the best modern medical teaching.

Boozer’s focus in healthcare was maternal and prenatal care. She worked as a childbirth and breast-feeding education nurse, helping families and parents prepare for their children. She organized husband-coached childbirth programs and breast-feeding support groups, in order to help Delawareans have “positive family-attended births and to breast-feed babies.”

Boozer was also involved as a board member of Kent General Hospital (1980 – 1986), a Professor of nursing and chairperson of the nursing division at Wesley College (1974 – 1995) where she helped to train more than 800 graduates, and a childbirth educator for the American Society for Psychoprophylaxis in Obstetrics.
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Sources and Additional Readings

Delaware Commission for Women. (2006). Twenty-Fifth Anniversary: Hall of Fame of Delaware Women: The Legacy Endures.