In Biblical the meaning of the name Jemima is: Handsome as the day. Hebrew Meaning: The name Jemima is a Hebrew baby name. In Hebrew the meaning of the name Jemima is: Dove. Little dove. In the Old Testament, Jemima was one of the three beautiful daughters of Job (the other two were Keziah and Keren).
Patricia M. Collins. Patricia M. Collins is an American civic leader and politician. She was a two-term Mayor of Caribou, Maine from 1981 to 1982.
Patricia Roberts Harris (1924-1985) became the first African American woman in the Cabinet when President Jimmy Carter appointed her secretary of housing and urban development in 1977. Born on May 31, 1924, in Mattoon, Illinois, to working class parents, Patricia Roberts Harris exemplified a true American success story. Educated in the Chicago public schools, Harris attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude in 1945.