Hilah Thomas

Hilah Bryan Thomas (November 27, 1909 – March 14, 2009) was an American medical science writer who worked at the National Institutes of Health for 22 years. She was an elected fellow of the American Medical Writers Association.

Life Hilah Frances Bryan was born November 27, 1909, in Charlottesville, Virginia, to Henrietta Kemp White and William Minor Bryan. She spent most of her childhood on east coast U.S. Public Health Service reservations.

Thomas held positions as a secretary with the Miller School of Biology at the University of Virginia and laboratory instructor at Sweet Briar College. She married lawyer Llewellyn C. Thomas on August 12, 1939, in Charlottesville, Virginia. She put her career on pause to become a housewife and mother.

Through 1999, she swam daily as a form of exercise. She died March 14, 2009.