Doctor Sophie Trent (b. 1917) was an internist who practiced medicine for a majority of her career in Connecticut. She graduated from Pembroke College at Brown University in 1939 and Yale Medical School in 1943. The following year, she completed her first medical internship at Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. During her subsequent years of medical training, Trent worked at (and, at times, managed) hospitals in Puerto Rico and, later, in Saint Thomas, where her patients were afflicted with elephantiasis, liver fluke disease and other tropical parasites. In 1946, Trent was awarded a research fellowship in the Division of Tropical Diseases, sponsored by the United States Public Health Service at Bethesda, Maryland. In 1947, having just spent time in Puerto Rico, Trent returned to the United States, and became the senior resident of Duval Medical Center at Jacksonville, Florida.

Having completed her formal training in medicine, in 1949, Trent returned to Connecticut and took a job as Associate of Medicine at the University of Connecticut. There she helped manage a sixty-bed infirmary as well as care for injured football players. From 1954 to 1973, Trent worked in private practice, as well as Meridian Hospital, Meridian Wallingford Hospital, and several veterans’ hospitals in Connecticut. From 1960 to 1962, she served as Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Medical Corps Reserve. From 1974 to 1987, Trent worked in various capacities for the Veterans’ Administration.

Among other professional organizations, Trent was involved with the American Medical Women’s Association, serving as State Director of Connecticut from 1960 to 1966. She also served as chairman for several committees and as its First Vice President in 1967. She also held the office of First Vice President for the Pan American Medical Women’s Alliance from 1965 to 1967.

In 1982, Trent received an MS in Art from the State University of Connecticut, New Britain. She was married to Colonel Ronald B. Stevens. She had no children. Her hobbies were painting and writing; in fact, she published several books of poetry.