Jacquelin Holland, RCN, CRNP

Jacquelin Holland's 29 years as a nurse practitioner encompass both nursing management and clinical practice. She is the director of screening services at the Columbus Cancer Clinic in Ohio. For the past two years she has served as a grant reviewer for the Ohio Commission on Minority Health.

Through her work at Planned Parenthood of Central Ohio, Ms. Holland became one of the first nurse practitioners in the state trained in women's health and family planning.

Her dedication to cancer screening and detection in the African American community includes her roles as president of the Columbus Black Nurses Association; board member of All Women, One Cause; and member of the Columbus Black Women's Health Project. She also is a member of the Ohio Breast and Cervical Cancer Coalition, the Oncology Nursing Society and the National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer. She is a volunteer with the American Cancer Society's Embracing Wellness program.

In 2002 Ms. Holland was named Midwest Region Nurse of the Year by Nursing Spectrum magazine. She has received the Columbus Black Nurses Association Clinical Excellence Award, the Outstanding Employee Award from the Columbus Cancer Clinic and the William J. Hicks Excellence Award from the African American Cancer Support Group.

Ms. Holland received her nursing diploma from Ohio's Grant Hospital School of Nursing in 1966. In 2002, she was selected to participate in an educational program through the Oncology Nursing Society in Miami, Fla. She also established a scholarship fund, named after her sons, for the Columbus Black Nurses Association to encourage the education of minority nurses. Ms. Holland is married to Benjamin Holland, a pharmacist, and has one son, David. Her second son, Jamal, passed away in 1986 at the age of 12.

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