specializing in gynecology, obstetrics and pediatrics

Four months before her death, she is quoted as saying, "When all the fears, hate, and even some death is over, we will really be bothers as God intended us to bin in this land. This I believe. For this I have worked all my life."

1871-1952

Dr. Ford took her practice on the road where she served Spanish, American Indian, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, “plain whites” and “plain colored” patients.

After she had been in practice 33 years, she was finally able to become a member of the faculty at Denver General but not practice there. She was never granted membership in the American Medical Association. She was finally admitted to the Denver and Colorado Medical Societies in 1950, two years before she died.

with her practice in their Illinois neighborhood. 

Justina Laurena Warren was born in 1871 in Knoxville, a small town a few miles east of Galesburg, Illinois.

She grew up in Galesburg.

Her interest in the practice of medicine was inspired by her mother, who was a nurse.