Regina Benjamin

Regina Benjamin (born October 26, 1956, Mobile, Alabama, U.S.) is an American physician who served as the 18th surgeon general of the United States (2009–13). Prior to her government appointment, she had spent most of her medical career serving poor families in a shrimping village on the Gulf Coast of Alabama. Benjamin received a B.S. (1979) from Xavier University of Louisiana. After first attending (1980–82) the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, Benjamin obtained...