Eve Juliet Higginbotham (born November 4, 1953) is an American ophthalmologist and medical school administrator.
Born in New Orleans to parents who were public school teachers, Higginbotham studied chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she earned undergraduate and master's degrees.
After completing an internship in San Francisco and an ophthalmology residency at Louisiana State University, Higginbotham was a glaucoma fellow at Harvard.
She was later the dean and senior vice president for academic affairs at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta.
[2] In the summer of 2013, Higginbotham was named Vice Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.