http://www.blogher.com/benjamin-and-sotomayor-set-change-landscape Comments for "Benjamin and Sotomayor Set to Change the Landscape" en http://www.blogher.com/benjamin-and-sotomayor-set-change-landscape <p><strong>by Chris Lombardi</strong></p> <p>Today, two 53-year-old women were front and center on the national stage: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, as Senate hearings on her nomination to the Supreme Court began, and a primary care physician from Louisiana named <a href="/Macarthur%20page:%20http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.4537251/k.8FDA/Regina_Benjamin.htm">Regina Benjamin</a>, who was appointed today <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/alabama-physician-chosen-as-surgeon-general/?scp=1&amp;sq=regina%20benjamin&amp;st=cse">to the long-vacant office of Surgeon General.</a></p> <p><a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/alabama-physician-chosen-as-surgeon-general/?scp=1&amp;sq=regina%20benjamin&amp;st=cse"></a> <a href="http://womensvoicesforchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/benjamin_viaMacarthur.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-7933" src="http://womensvoicesforchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/benjamin_viaMacarthur-200x132.jpg" alt="benjamin_viaMacarthur" title="benjamin_viaMacarthur" width="200" height="132" /></a></p> <p>Dr. Benjamin, a member of the second class at Morehouse School of Medicine, received the prestigious Macarthur Foundation &quot;genius grant&quot; for her health center the Bayou Clinic. She has been variously called &quot;an angel in a white coat&quot; and &quot;a healing force,&quot; so named by <a href="http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/dr-regina-benjamin----a-healing-force/article19591-1.html">the Readers Digest for her work after Hurricane Katrina:</a></p> <p>Read more about Dr. Regina Benjamin, and the latest news from Justice Sotomayor's confirmation hearing at <a href="http://womensvoicesforchange.org/two-power-women-set-to-change-the-landscape-dr-regina-benjamin-and-justice-sonia-sotomayor.htm">Women's Voices For Change. </a></p> http://www.blogher.com/benjamin-and-sotomayor-set-change-landscape#comments Business &amp; Career Feminism Race &amp; Ethnicity United States News &amp; Politics CVS health care Hurricane Katrina justice sotomayor Obama administration regina benjamin senate confirmation hearing sonia sotomayor Supreme Court surgeon general Breaking News Doctors Feminism Gender Health &amp; Wellness Hiring Menopause Midlife Politics World Democrats Republicans Social Action Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:27:22 -0500 WVFC 100595 at http://www.blogher.com