Desdia Neva Egan (October 3, 1914 – January 19, 2011) was an American educator who served as the first First Lady of Alaska from the state's creation in 1959 to 1966, and again from 1970 to 1974.

[1][3] McKittrick worked at her family's grocery store to earn the tuition money to attend Kansas State College.

McKittrick began her career teaching music in a public school in Glenrock, Wyoming, for two years.

[2] She taught fourth through sixth grade, as well as music, in the Valdez public school system.

[3] McKittrick soon met her future husband, William Allen Egan, in Valdez, and the couple married on November 16, 1940.