Piedmont Nurse: Julia James

Julia E. James

Born in 1908 in Richmond to parents Nathaniel, a porter, and Missouri, a laundress, Julia Elizabeth James attended the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute and entered the training program for tuberculosis nurses at Piedmont Sanatorium. After graduating from Piedmont, James worked as superintendent of nurses at Pine Camp Tuberculosis Hospital in Richmond, and then entered military service in January 1943. Photographs from the National Archives depict nurses from James' unit in England in late 1944 and 1945. In 1943, James married Sergeant Emmett Green, and then left military service in November 1945. A grave marker at Washington Memorial Park, Sandston, Virginia, reads: “Julia E. Green, 1st Lt US Army World War II, Feb 3 1908 - Feb 16 2001.”