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= Rhetaugh Graves Dumas = Rhetaugh Etheldra Graves Dumas (1928–2007) was an American nurse, professor, and health administrator. Dumas was the first Black woman to serve as a dean at the University of Michigan. She served as the dean of the University of Michigan Nursing School. She also served as deputy director of the National Institute of Mental Health, becoming the first nurse, female, or African-American to hold that position.[1] She is said to have been the first nurse to use the scientific method to conduct experiments that evaluated nursing practices.[2]

Dumas died on July 22 2007 of ovarian cancer.[3] The University of Michigan Academic Women's Caucus issues the Rhetaugh G. Dumas Progress in Diversifying Award for "notable progress by academic units in achieving concurrent ethnic/racial and gender diversity in the faculty."[7] Michigan and Yale have both established endowed chairs in their nursing schools in her name.[4]

Dumas became a very well-recognized leader and was known by many. She served as the president for both the American Academy of Nursing and the National League for Nursing. Her work did not go unnoticed, as she was appointed to the National Bioethics Advisory Committee by President Bill Clinton, as well as receiving the President's 21st Century award from the National Women's Hall of Fame.