Angela Murdaugh

Angela Murdaugh (born September 15, 1940 - October 2024) was an American Catholic religious sister in the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, a Certified Nurse-Midwife. She was a pioneer in promoting nurse midwives and birth centers. Out of this passion, she founded the Holy Family Birth Center in Weslaco, TX in 1983.

The birthing center was successful in many ways and became a model for others. "By 2002 the infant mortality rate in Hidalgo County was cut in half due to the center, declared so successful that it was emulated nationally." She retired from Holy Family Birth Center in 2007.

Honors Elected president of the American College of Nurse Midwives Midwives Alliance of North American gave her their highest honor—the Sage Femme Award Named to Texas Women's Hall of Fame (2002) Texas Nurse of the Year Award (1978), American College of Nurse Midwives Hattie Hemschemeyer Award (1990) Social Justice Award (1998) Doctor of Humane Letters from Villanova University (2005)