Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf was the first female apothecary in the Thirteen Colonies. She is considered to be the first female pharmacist in the United States.
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi graduated from the New York College of Pharmacy in 1863, which made her the first woman to graduate from a United States school of pharmacy.
Susan Hayhurst was the first woman to receive a pharmacy degree in the United States, which occurred in 1883.
Cora Dow (1868–1915), a pharmacist in Cincinnati, Ohio, was the leading female pharmacist of her time, with eleven stores under her name when she died.
Julia Pearl Hughes (1873–1950) was  the first African-American female pharmacist to own and operate her own drug store.
Anna Louise James (1886–1977) was the first African-American female pharmacist in Connecticut.