Nannie Jacquelin Minor

Nannie Jacquelin Minor (1871–1934) was an early practitioner of public health nursing in the U.S. state of Virginia. She was a founding member of the Nurses Settlement in Richmond, Virginia.

Biography Minor was born on June 15, 1871, in Charlottesville, Virginia. She attended the Old Dominion Hospital Training School, graduating in 1900. She pursued further study at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Thomas Wilson Sanatorium. At the turn of the century she worked with Sadie Heath Cabaniss to establish the Nurses Settlement. Minor worked at INVA until 1922 when she became the director of Public Health Nursing in the Bureau of Child Welfare with the Virginia State Health Department.