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The Army Nurse Corps has been blessed with excellent leadership from its beginning in 1901. For brief biographies of the first thirteen of these great ladies, written by noted ANC historian Mary Sarnecky, visit our Superintendents and Chiefs pages.

History of the Army Nurse Corps Association
(Formerly the Retired Army Nurse Corps Association)
In 1976, a group of retired Army Nurse Corps officers gathered in San Antonio and expressed a desire to continue the camaraderie and close ties of the Army Nurse Corps in retired life and to establish a means of communication by, for, and about Army Nurse Corps retirees.

From that dream the Retired Army Nurse Corps Association (RANCA) emerged and was incorporated in 1977. In 2000, the organization’s name was changed to the Army Nurse Corps Association (ANCA) to better reflect the composition of the membership. ANCA is an organization dedicated to bringing Army nurses together in a social setting. What matters is that one has been or is an Army nurse on active duty or a member of the Reserve Components. ANCA publishes a quarterly newsletter, The Connection, for its members and holds a biennial convention in even years in different cities throughout the United States.

ANCA’s purposes are to provide communication and social opportunities for the members, cooperate with the Chief, Army Nurse Corps in the preservation of the history of the ANC, award scholarship monies to established baccalaureate nursing school programs, and establish a means of continual communication by, for, and about Army Nurse Corps officers.