Jane Hinton (1919-2003) was one of the first two African-American women to gain the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (1949).
Prior to her veterinary medicine studies at the University of Pennsylvania, she had been a laboratory technician at Harvard, co-developing the Mueller-Hinton agar, a culture medium that is now commonly used to test bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics.
She later practiced as a small animal veterinarian in Massachusetts, and then as a federal government inspector.
Hinton was the daughter of William Augustus Hinton, a microbiologist and the first African-American professor at Harvard University.