An American Daughter at The Vortex Theatre

Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes is nominated to be the Surgeon General of the United States and appears to be a certainty. She is the daughter of a senator. However, during an interview, she mentions that she had never been on a jury and, discussing her dead mother, describes her as "an ordinary Indiana housewife who made icebox cakes and pimento cheese canapés."[2] Her nomination is now in doubt, with her friend, Judith B. Kaufman, an African American Jewish physician, lending support.