Gertrude Scott Galloway (November 12, 1930 – July 17, 2014) was an American educator and administrator working with deaf children. She was the first female president of the National Association of the Deaf. She is among the first deaf women to head a school for the deaf in the United States. Galloway was an advocate for deaf women throughout her life. Early life Gertrude Scott was born on November 12, 1930 in Washington, D.C. She was born deaf to deaf parents and deaf grandparents. She was enrolled in Kendall Demonstration Elementary School at age six; since she had been raised using American Sign Language, the school's teaching through oralism proved frustrating. She entered Gallaudet College at age fifteen. At Gallaudet she was active in drama productions, costarring with deaf theatre icon Bernard Bragg; she also served as the representative of women in her class as the head senior. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Deaf Education from Gallaudet in 1951. She went on to receive a Master of Education degree in 1972 from Western Maryland College as well as a doctorate in Special Education Administration in 1993 from Gallaudet. Career Galloway married shortly after graduating with her undergraduate degree in 1951 and raised three children, working occasional jobs as a keypunch operator and substitute teacher. After a "devastating" divorce, Galloway and her children moved to Frederick, Maryland in 1970, where she took a position teaching math at the Maryland School for the Deaf. When the Columbia campus of the school opened in 1973, she was offered the position of assistant principal. She held that role until 1990, establishing programs for elementary-aged students and students with multiple disabilities. During the 1970s and 1980s she also taught psychology and women's studies at Hood College and ASL for Western Maryland College. In January 1991 she became the Marie H. Katzenbach School superintendent for the Deaf, becoming the first deaf superintendent in the school's 107-year history. She follows Jane Fernandes, as one of the first deaf women to head a school for the hearing impaired in the United States. In that position, she worked to make the school a resource center for the deaf in New Jersey and advocated for deaf children to have quality interactions with other children, both deaf and hearing. Service She became the first female president of the National Association of the Deaf, serving from 1980 to 1982. While