Shannon Faulkner
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Shannon Faulkner, born in Powdersville, South Carolina, United States, in 1975, was the first female cadet to enter The Citadel (The application never asked for the applicant's gender), a military college in South Carolina; she entered on August 15, 1995. Faulkner enrolled after a successful lawsuit against the military academy. Despite her winning in court after four years of legal battling, she spent almost the entire first week in the Citadel's infirmary before dropping out, citing exhaustion and allegations of abuse from other male cadets.
As of May 2005, The Citadel's Corps of Cadets contains 118 female cadets: six percent of the total student population.
Faulkner now works as a high school teacher at Woodmont High School in Piedmont, South Carolina.
References
In the Company of Men: A Woman at The Citadel (Simon Pulse:Reprint edition 2002) by Nancy Mace, the first woman to graduate from The Citadel.In Glory's Shadow : The Citadel, Shannon Faulkner, and a Changing America (Vintage:2001) by Catherine S. Manegold.
External links
- [Shannon Faulkner's entry in the Citadel's "Knob" Knowledge]
- ["Women Gain Ground at Citadel", FOX News]
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