Editor's note: Donna Diers, the former dean and Annie W. Goodrich Professor Emerita of the Yale University School of Nursing, and an American Academy of Nursing Living Legend, died on February 23 at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. Diers was a member of AJN’s editorial board and a founding member of our journal oversight committee. We will miss her support, wit, and counsel. We asked AJN’s editor-in-chief emeritus, Diana J. Mason, to write a remembrance of Donna.