Beatrice Hicks, born in 1919 in Orange, a township in Essex County, New Jersey, decided at an early age that she wished to be an engineer.
Beatrice Alice Hicks (January 2, 1919  October 21, 1979) was an American engineer, the first woman engineer to be hired by Western Electric, and both co-founder and first president of the Society of Women Engineers. Beatrice Hicks was born in 1919 in Orange, New Jersey, to William Lux Hicks, a chemical engineer, and Florence Benedict. The City of Orange is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Hicks decided at an early age that she wished to be an engineer. 
