Alma Elizabeth Gault (September 28, 1891 – July 12, 1981)[1] was an American nurse administrator.
[2] For her achievement's Gault was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 1984.
[1] Beginning in 1938, Gault was the Director of Union Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland.
[2][6] During Gault's tenor as dean, Bobbie Jean Perdue, the first African-American student, enrolled in the school.
[6] Gault helped secure a grant from the Division of Nursing of the U.S. Public Health Service to trial a five-year undergraduate curriculum revision project with the intention to enrich the curriculum to better recruit and retain students.