Stella James Sims

Stella James Sims (1875-1963) was an African-American science professor who held positions at Storer College, Virginia University of Lynchburg, and Bluefield Colored Institute.

After attending the Washington D.C. public schools, James attended and graduated from Storer College in 1893 and Bates College in Maine in 1897 (the first African-American woman to graduate from that school).

[1] While in college she wrote for the Bates Student[2] and majored in physics.

In 1901 she married Robert Page Sims (1872-1944), a fellow Storer alumnus, and they had six children together.

[7] She died in 1963[8] and her grave is at the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Bolivar, West Virginia.