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The first Woman in Orange County licensed as a building <br /> contractor was <br /> Carol Ann Zinn of Cazwell Inc . in 1978. <br /> The first. Woman Chiropractic Physician to open a private <br /> practice was <br /> Wanda N. Neville in May of 1979 to the present.. <br /> The first Woman architect to open a .private practice in <br /> Orange County was <br /> Lucy Carroll Davis in 1983 to the present.. <br /> The first Orange County Woman (and only Woman of color) <br /> to win the Juanita Bryant. Citizenship Award for the North <br /> Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs was <br /> Francis Hargraves in 1987. <br /> The first. Orange County Woman to win the Nobel Prize was <br /> Gertrude Elion in 1988. <br /> The first. Woman and the first. Woman of color from Orange <br /> County to serve as Deputy Commissioner of Insurance in <br /> the North Carolina Department. of Insurance was <br /> Armetta McPherson <br />