submitting her application to the board of examiners on August 17, 1891 and started the exam soon after. This rigorous exam required participants to give written responses to verbal questions from the state health office. Dr. Dillon scored a 78.81%, 3.81% higher than the requirement to pass (75%). She was under heavy scrutiny and the public eye due to her race and gender, but successfully passed the examination to become the first woman physician in Alabama. Johnson went on to work at Tuskegee Institute from 1891 to 1894. She also was accompanied by her father where Bishop Benjamin Tanner lectured for a year at the institute Bible School. There, her teaching schedule consisted of instructing up to two classrooms per term, teaching courses on anatomy and hygiene. Alongside that she oversaw the medical care of 480 students, families, faculty, and officers. Johnson cultivated her own medicines to treat them. This is where she was also required to compound the prescriptions for the town and institute. Her contributions at Tuskegee Institute earned her a salary of 600 dollars a year, including room and board, and was given a month of vacation each year. She founded a nursing school as well. She also practiced medicine and pharmacy in the community and founded the Lafayette Dispensary for locals. References 1864 births 1901 deaths Allen University Drexel University alumni Deaths in childbirth People from Pittsburgh Tuskegee University African-American physicians Physicians from Alabama Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania alumni 19th-century American women physicians 19th-century American physicians African-American women physicians Deaths from dysentery Tanner family of Pennsylvania