Alice Bennett

In addition, Bennett was the first female superintendent in the women's section at the state hospital for the insane in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and the first woman president of the Montgomery Country Medical Society.

As she finished up her Ph.D., Hiram Corson assisted in her appointment to medical superintendent of the Department for Women at the Pennsylvania State Hospital for the Insane at Norristown.

[1][2] Bennett worked as the medical superintendent of the Department for Women at the Pennsylvania State Hospital for the Insane at Norristown from 1880 to 1896.

Her research articles and papers on the nature and characteristics of mental illness won her professional recognition in her field.

[1][2] Bennett left the state hospital in 1896, moving back to her hometown of Wrentham and maintaining a private practice.