# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kathleen-byerly
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:44:05.949Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kathleen-byerly"
name: "Kathleen Byerly"
slug: "kathleen-byerly"
description: "Kathleen Mae Bruyere was a captain in the United States Navy. She was one of the twelve women named by Time magazine as Time Person of the Year in 1975, representing American women. In May 1975, she became the first female officer in the Navy to serve as the flag secretary to an admiral commanding an operational staff. In 1977, Byerly was one of six officers who sued the United States Secretary of the Navy and the United States Secretary of Defense over their being restricted from serving on combat aircraft and ships. This led to the 1948 Women's Armed Services Integration Act being struck down as unconstitutional."
tagline: "US Navy officer (1944-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CDR_Kathleen_M._Byerly%2C_USN.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1944-02-05"
deathDate: "2020-09-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.539669333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Byerly"
    title: "Kathleen Byerly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "كاثلين بيرلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Byerly"
    title: "Kathleen Byerly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Byerly"
    title: "Kathleen Byerly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Byerly"
    title: "Kathleen Byerly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Byerly"
    title: "Kathleen Byerly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Byerly"
    title: "Kathleen Byerly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3194060"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump