Myra Knox

Myra Knox (1853 – October 30, 1915) was a Canadian-born American physician. Having been a teacher before her career in medicine, she became the first woman in California to be appointed to a board of education.

Biography

Myra Knox was born in 1853,

She was the first woman in California to be appointed to a board of education, serving for twelve years on the Oakland board after her appointment in the early 1890s. She was also for many years physician at the State Home for the Blind in Oakland and also served on the Merritt Hospital Board of Physicians (now Alta Bates Summit Medical Center).

In religion, she belonged to the Unitarian Church. Knox died October 30, 1915, at Merritt Hospital, where she had been for a week suffering from a cerebral hemorrhage.