Sunita WIlliams
Sunita Williams was born in Euclid, Ohio , to Indian American neuroanatomist Deepak Pandya and Slovene American Ursuline Bonnie Pandya (née Zalokar) residing in Falmouth, Massachusetts . Sunita is the youngest of three siblings; her brother Jay Thomas is four years older and her sister Dina Anna is three years older. Williams’ paternal ancestry is from Jhulasan , Mehsana district in Gujarat , India, while her maternal great-grandmother Mary Bohinc (originally Marija Bohinjec), born September 5, 1883 in Leše , Slovenia, immigrated to America as an eleven-year-old girl with her mother, an 1891 Slovene emigrant Ursula Bohinc née Strajhar. [5] [6] Williams graduated from Needham High School in Needham, Massachusetts , in 1983. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in physical science from the United States Naval Academy in 1987, and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management from Florida Institute of Technology in 1995. [2]