Connie Yerwood Connor

Connie Yerwood Conner (June 11, 1991) was a Texas physician and the first black doctor to serve on the Texas Department of Health.

Biography Conner was born in Victoria, Texas, and grew up in Austin. Early on, she decided she wanted to be a doctor. Conner's father was a physician and as a young woman, she and her sister Joyce Yerwood spent time with her father on the job. In 1925, she graduated from Samuel Huston College. She was involved in training midwives in East Texas and set up wellness clinics in rural Texas. By the time she retired in 1977, she had been promoted to the director of health services in Texas.

Conner died on June 11, 1991, in Austin. She is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Austin, Texas.