L. Eudora Ashburne

Lydia Eudoria Ashburne Evans ( – January 14, 1992) was an African-American female physician. In 1912 she became the first African-American woman to graduate from Howard University School of Medicine and the first African-American woman licensed as a general practitioner in Virginia, following Sarah Garland Boyd Jones's 1893 licensure as the first African-American woman certified by the Virginia State Medical Examining Board.

Biography Ashburne was born around 1887. She grew up in Bowers Hill, Virginia and was part of a big family of fourteen siblings. Her parents had been formerly enslaved people. Ashburne briefly practiced medicine in Virginia. She moved to Chicago in 1916 and worked there as a physician for around 65 years. She provided charity work for many people in Chicago. She died on January 14, 1992, in Hyde Park.