Janie L. Mines

Janie L. Mines (born 1958) is an American former naval officer who was the first African-American woman to graduate from the United States Naval Academy, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in 1980. where she had been a member of the Navy Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps JROTC unit, Mines was the first and only African-American woman of the 81 women who entered the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) in 1976. Mines also served as a senior advisor on the staff of the Secretary of the Navy. She held positions in management in several corporations, including Procter & Gamble and Hershey Foods, and was Senior Vice President of Strategic Sourcing at Bank of America.

Honors

In 2002, Mines was a torchbearer in the Olympic Torch Relay, and has received local civic awards. She was also subject of a USNA video, Courage.