The Dorothy Cornelius Leadership Congress

Dorothy Alice Cornelius was executive director of the Ohio Nurses Association from 1957 to 1983, president of the International Council of Nurses from 1973 to 1977, president of the American Nurses Association from 1968 to 1970, and president of the American Journal of Nursing Company – the largest publisher of nursing periodicals in the word – from 1967 to 1968.  She is the only person to have functioned in all of those positions.

She believed that one nurse could make a difference, proving it through her own life’s work. Inductees into the Cornelius Leadership Congress must demonstrate that they, too, have made a difference.