Black History: ROSALIE REDDICK MILLER (1925-2005)
Black History: ROSALIE REDDICK MILLER (1925-2005)

Dr. Rosalie Reddick Miller was the first African American woman dentist to practice in the state of Washington.

She was born on December 29, 1925 in Waycross, Georgia.

She attended the all-black public schools in Columbus, Georgia, and in 1946 received a B.A.

From Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

She enrolled at Meharry Medical College and received her D.D.S.

In 1951.

Returning to Columbus, she took over her father’s dental practice.

Her husband, Dr. Earl V.

Miller–who she married in 1947–practiced general medicine.