Cecile A. Hoover Edwards

Cecile A. Hoover Edwards (October 26, 1926-September 17, 2005) was an African American student at Iowa State College.

Life and Education

Dr. Cecile Hoover Edwards was born in East Saint Louis, Illinois on October 26, 1926. Her father, Ernest Hoover, managed an insurance company. Her mother, Annie Jordan, was a schoolteacher. She graduated from high school at 15 years old and went to Tuskegee Institute. She graduated from Tuskegee in 1946 with a B.S. in Nutritional Chemistry. She continued at Tuskegee, doing research on the animal source of protein and earned a M.S. in Organic Chemistry in 1947 (before she was 21 years old).