Josie Rogers
About
Josie Rogers was an American physician and politician. She was the first female physician in Daytona Beach and the first woman to be elected mayor of a city in Florida in 1922, only two years after women gained the right to vote in elections in the state. Known as Dr. Josie, she practiced medicine for 50 years, serving both black and white residents of her lifelong hometown. She was related Clemence Lozier, another pioneering female physician and suffragette, who was the cousin of her great grandmother.
