Shannon Faulkner
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Shannon Faulkner, born in Powdersville, South Carolina, United States, in 1975, was the first female cadet to enter The Citadel; she entered on August 15, 1995. Faulkner enrolled after a successful lawsuit against the military academy. Despite her winning in court after four years of legal battling, she spent almost the entire first week in the Citadel's infirmary before dropping out, citing exhaustion and alleging abuse by male cadets.
As of May 2005, The Citadel's Corps of Cadets contained 118 female cadets: six percent of the total student population.
Faulkner now works as a high school teacher at Woodmont High School in Piedmont, South Carolina.
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In the Company of Men: A Woman at The Citadel (Simon Pulse:Reprint edition 2002) by Nancy Mace, the first woman to graduate from The Citadel.
In Glory's Shadow : The Citadel, Shannon Faulkner, and a Changing America (Vintage:2001) by Catherine S. Manegold.
