Sharon Malone (gynecologist) (born January 30, 1959) is an African-American obstetrician and gynecologist.^[1]

Malone was born in Mobile, Alabama to a domestic servant and a maintenance worker for Brookley Air Force Base.^[1] She is the youngest of eight siblings and the sister of Vivian Malone Jones, who, in 1963, became one of the first African American students to enroll at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Malone obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Harvard University in 1981. ^[2]

After graduating from Harvard, she pursued a career as a systems engineer with the IBM Corporation, but later decided to attend medical school at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she obtained her Doctor of Medicine in 1988. Malone moved to Washington, D.C. in 1988 to complete her medical residency at George Washington University.^[2] In 1992, she ventured into private practice with Foxhall OB/GYN in Washington, D.C. Malone has also served as an associate clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the George Washington University. She presented the 2012 PBS documentary, Slavery by Another Name, which charts the violent transition in 1865 from chattel slavery to forced prison labor.

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Malone is married to Eric Holder, the first African American Attorney General of the United States. They both live in Washington, D.C. with their three children, Maya, Brooke, and Eric III.^[3]

Malone serves on the boards of the D.C.

Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and Historic Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the regional panel for the selection of White House Fellows Program and was appointed to the selection committee for the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction awarded by the University of Alabama School of Law. Additionally, Malone has consistently been voted one of Washingtonian magazine’s “Best Doctors.”

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