Elizabeth Ann Nalley

Elizabeth Ann Nalley, known as Ann Nalley (born 1942 in Catron, Missouri), is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma. She earned a bachelor degree in chemical education at Northeastern State University in 1965, a master degree in analytical chemistry at Oklahoma State University in 1969 and a doctorate in radiation chemistry at Texas Woman's University in 1975. She began teaching chemistry at Muskogee Central High School, joined the Cameron faculty in 1969 and has been a full professor since 1978, the first woman to hold that rank there. She served as president of the honor society Phi Kappa Phi from 1995 to 1998 and as president of the American Chemical Society in 2006, and received the Iota Sigma Pi Award in Professional Excellence in 2005 and the ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences in 2015.