About: Annie Bizzell Jordan Willis

Annie Bizzell Jordan Willis (May 30, 1893 – c. 1977) was an American religious educator and integrationist of the Universalist and later Unitarian Universalist faith traditions. She was the daughter of , the first African American Universalist minister. She became a teacher and the superintendent of Suffolk Normal Training School (SNTS) and Jordan Neighborhood House. For decades, she taught and supported hundreds of children and their families, regardless of the varying degrees of assistance from her religious denomination. Her life and work are examples of 20th century anti-racism in the United States and the Unitarian Universalist religious faith. Some of her students include trauma surgeon L.D. Britt, Suffolk's vice mayor and activist Moses Riddick, and Suffolk Circuit Court Deputy Cler