Sherian Grace Cadoria (born January 26, 1940) is a retired

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officer. She became the first African-American woman to achieve

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rank in the regular United States Army on promotion to

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in 1985. She was the highest ranking black woman in the military at the time of her retirement in 1990. Cadoria is a 1961 graduate of

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with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Education, and holds a Master of Arts degree in Social Work from the

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. Initially in the Women's Army Corps, she transferred to the Military Police Corps in the 1970s.

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Brigadier General Sherian Cadoria at Louisiana's Military Heritage: Sons & Daughters of the State
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