Juliet Atwood Rice was born on October 23, 1901, in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii (now United States).
[1]: 4 Her parents were Charles Atwood Rice and Grace Ethel King, of a Kaua'i Kamaʻāina family.
[1]: 16 [2] Her paternal grandfather was the son of William Hyde Rice, the last Governor of Kauai before the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
In the early 1950s, when construction workers were looking for fill dirt for projects near Ke‘e, Wichman stood in front of a bulldozer to stop the destruction of a rock wall that was part of the foundation of the house of Lohiau.
[4] She began transforming a section of the land of Limahula Valley into a garden, removing the cattle that had grazed there for decades.
She was also the author of Amelia : a novel of mid-nineteenth century Hawaii (1979) and a children's book, Moki learns to fish (1981), teaching the Hawaiian words for the numbers one through ten.
[5] Wichman was the chair of the committee that founded the Kauaʻi Museum and helped raise funds for the building to house it.