Jeanne Cady Solis

Jeanne Cady Solis (13 February 1867 – 18 December 1947) was an early woman neurologist. When she was hired as Assistant to the Professor of Nervous Diseases and Electrotherapeutics at the University of Michigan in 1892, she likely became the first woman ever hired in an academic neurology department

Early life and family Solis was born in Canada, one of four daughters born to Edwin Solis, an attorney, and Hattie Solis, a pioneer resident of St. Clair, Michigan.

She lived with her younger sister, Electra Blood Solis, for most of her life.

When Herdman died in 1906, neurologist Carl D. Camp was hired from the University of Pennsylvania. Solis left the university. She continued to practice private medicine, with a fifty-year career in neurology specializing in "nervous diseases of women and children," according to one obituary.

The Women's Research Club In 1900, a “Society for the Promotion of Research at the University of Michigan” was founded by eminent male researchers at the University. In 1902, junior researchers founded another Research Club for less elite members. Neither group allowed women, so in October 1902 a Women's Research Club was founded, with Lydia DeWitt the first president.

Solis was President of the Women's Research Club from 1906 to 1907, 1919-1922, 1923-1926 and 1927-1928 when the current president resigned.