County Praises Work of Bayou La Batre Doctor

Posted on: Jul 13th, 2009 | News and Announcements

The Mobile County Commission today commended Dr. Regina Benjamin, who was to be named by President Obama as U.S. Surgeon General Monday morning. Commission president Mike Dean said he was honored to know Benjamin as a part of the Mobile community. Benjamin runs a rural health clinic in Bayou La Batre. She was the first African-American woman to head a state medical society and received a MacArthur Foundation genius grant last year. Benjamin is a 1998 Mandela Award Winner, a former Kellogg National Fellow, has been featured as ABC Television's Person of the Week, and in 1996 was chosen by CBS This Morning as Woman of the Year.