Justina Ford, MD 1871-1952 Inducted 1985 Adopted by Ann Flanigan Justina L. Ford, MD was Denver’s first black woman physician. She concentrated her practice in obstetrics and believed strongly in natural childbirth. On her arrival in Denver she learned that Denver General Hospital accepted neither black patients nor black physicians. So Dr. Ford took her practice on the road where she served Spanish, American Indian, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, “plain whites” and “plain colored” patients. After she had been in practice 33 years, she was finally able to become a member of the faculty at Denver General but not practice there. She was never granted membership in the American Medical Association. She was finally admitted to the Denver and Colorado Medical Societies in 1950, two years before she died.
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