List of alumnae of women's colleges in the United States
Mary McLeod Bethune (Scotia Seminary )Benazir Bhutto (Radcliffe College )Elaine Chao (Mount Holyoke College )Hillary Clinton (Wellesley College )Marian Wright Edelman (Spelman College ; from the CDC Public Health Image Library)Katharine Hepburn (Bryn Mawr College )Zora Neale Hurston (Barnard College )Suzan-Lori Parks (Mount Holyoke College )Nancy Pelosi (Trinity College )Meryl Streep (Vassar College )Alice Walker (Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College )The following is a list of individuals associated with women's colleges in the United States through attending as a student or graduating.
Activists
Margaret Atwood , graduate of Radcliffe College ; authorKatharine Lee Bates , graduate of Wellesley College ; best known for writing "America the Beautiful "Elizabeth Bishop , graduate of Vassar College ; Poet Laureate of the United States , 1949–1950; Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956Madeleine Blais , 1969 graduate of the College of New Rochelle ; Pulitzer Prize –winning journalist and authorMargaret Wise Brown , 1932 graduate of Hollins University ; author of Goodnight Moon Pearl Sydenstricker Buck , 1914 graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College ; author of The Good Earth Elizabeth Campbell , 1923 graduate of Salem College ; first woman founder of a PBS stationPearl Cleage , graduate of Spelman College; authorAnn Compton , graduate of Hollins University; news reporter for ABC ; inductee of the Radio Hall of Fame Candy Crowley , 1970 graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College ; former CNN senior political correspondent; recipient of awards for outstanding journalism from the National Press Foundation and the Associated PressKiran Desai , graduate of Hollins University; author; recipient of the Man Booker Prize in 2006Emily Dickinson , attended Mount Holyoke College (then "Mount Holyoke Female Seminary"); poetAnnie Dillard , 1967 graduate of Hollins University; Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Nora Ephron , graduate of Wellesley College; authorLendon Gray , 1971 graduate of Sweet Briar College; author and winner of multiple Olympic medals in dressageJasmine Guillory , graduate of Wellesley College ; American romance novelist and New York Times Bestselling authorH.D. , attended Bryn Mawr College; modernist poetMolly Haskell , 1961 graduate of Sweet Briar College; author and film criticMary Davis Holt,[ 1] Break Your Own Rules: How to Change the Patterns of Thinking that Block Women's Paths to Power ; executive coach; held leadership positions at Time Inc and Time Warner
Zora Neale Hurston , 1928 graduate of Barnard College ; authorGwen Ifill , 1977 graduate of Simmons College ; moderator and managing editor of Washington Week in Review 2004 and 2008 vice presidential debatesHelen Keller , graduate of Radcliffe College ; author , activist and lecturer; first deafblind person to graduate from collegeJhumpa Lahiri , 1989 graduate of Barnard College; Pulitzer Prize–winning authorUrsula K. Le Guin , graduate of Radcliffe College ; authorMarianne Moore , graduate of Bryn Mawr College ; modernist poetMarsha Norman , graduate of Agnes Scott College ; Pulitzer Prize winner for her drama 'night, Mother Flannery O'Connor , graduate of Georgia College & State University ; authorSuzan-Lori Parks , 1985 graduate of Mount Holyoke College; Pulitzer Prize–winning playwrightSylvia Plath , 1955 graduate of Smith College ; author and poetAnna Quindlen , graduate of Barnard College; journalist with the New York Times Cokie Roberts , 1964 graduate of Wellesley College; contributing senior news analyst for National Public Radio ; regular roundtable analyst for This Week with George Stephanopoulos Shaun Robinson , 1984 graduate of Spelman College; Access Hollywood correspondentDiane Sawyer , 1967 graduate of Wellesley College; television reporter for ABC and co-anchor of its morning news show, Good Morning America Mary Lee Settle , attended Sweet Briar College; author; a founder of the annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Lee Smith , 1967 graduate of Hollins University; author of The Last Girls Lesley Stahl , graduate of Wheaton College ; reporter for 60 Minutes Gertrude Stein , graduate of Radcliffe College ; modernist author and criticAnn Taylor , attended Sweet Briar College; newscaster for National Public Radio (NPR) ; contributor to All Things Considered Alice Walker , attended Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College ; Pulitzer Prize–winning authorBarbara Walters , graduate of Sarah Lawrence College; journalist , writer, and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today The View 20/20 World News ABC Evening News )Wendy Wasserstein , 1971 graduate of Mount Holyoke College; Pulitzer Prize–winning playwrightEudora Welty , graduate of Mississippi University for Women ; authorPaula Zahn , graduate of Stephens College ; reporter and/or anchor for various networks on numerous programs such as CBS This Morning CBS Evening News Good Morning America The Edge with Paula Zahn American Morning with Paula ZahnPaula Zahn Now Ann M. Martin , 1977 graduate of Smith College ; authorMadeleine L'Engle , 1941 graduate of Smith College; authorMolly Ivins , 1966 graduate of Smith College; author, journalist, and political commentatorJane Yolen , 1960 graduate of Smith College; author
College presidents
Jo Allen, graduate of Meredith College; its current president
Mary Brown Bullock , graduate of Agnes Scott College; its immediate past presidentNancy Cantor , graduate of Sarah Lawrence College; former Chancellor of University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ; President of Syracuse University Carol T. Christ , graduate of Douglass College (part of Rutgers University ); current president of Smith College Alecia A. DeCoudreaux, graduate of Wellesley College; current president of Mills College
Drew Gilpin Faust , graduate of Bryn Mawr College; first female president of Harvard University Helene Gayle , graduate of Barnard College ; president of Spelman College , American physician and public health professionalElaine Tuttle Hansen , graduate of Mount Holyoke College; current president of Bates College Ada Howard , graduate of Mount Holyoke College; first president of Wellesley CollegeNannerl O. Keohane , graduate of Wellesley College; Wellesley College president from 1981-1993Ruth Austin Knox , 1975 graduate of Wesleyan College ; 24th president in of the college, in 2003Audrey F. Manley , graduate of Spelman College; its president, 1997–2002Susan Tolman Mills , graduate of Mount Holyoke College; co-founder and first president of Mills College Carol Ann Mooney , graduate of Saint Mary's College ; president 2004–2016Nancy J. Vickers , graduate of Mount Holyoke College; president of Bryn Mawr College, 1997–2008Diana Chapman Walsh , graduate of Wellesley College; Wellesley College president from 1993–2007Leocadia I. Zak , graduate of Mount Holyoke College; current president of Agnes Scott College
Ruth Benedict , 1909 graduate of Vassar College; anthropologistLeah Busque , 2001 graduate of Sweet Briar College; founder and CEO of TaskRabbit Annie Jump Cannon , 1884 graduate of Wellesley College; astronomer who developed the well-known Henry Draper Catalogue of stars based upon temperatureRachel Carson , graduate of Chatham University ; author of Silent Spring environmental movement Marjorie Grene , 1931 graduate of Wellesley College; earned Ph.D. from Radcliffe College in 1935; internationally recognized as a major philosopher of biology [ 2] Grace Hopper , 1928 graduate of Vassar College; computer scientist who developed the first compiler for a computer programming language Susan Kare , 1975 graduate of Mount Holyoke College; original designer of many of the interface elements for the original Apple Macintosh Stephanie Kwolek , 1946 graduate of Margaret Morrison Carnegie College ; inventor of Kevlar Margaret Mead , 1923 graduate of Barnard College; anthropologistPamela Melroy , 1983 graduate of Wellesley College; former NASA astronaut ; pilot on Space Shuttle missions STS-92 and STS-112 ; commanded mission STS-120 Jean E. Sammet , 1948 graduate of Mount Holyoke College; inventor of the FORMAC programming language Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp , 1968 graduate of Sweet Briar College; medical epidemiologist and chief of the developmental disabilities branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Government officials
Stacey Abrams , 1995 graduate of Spelman College; first black woman major-party gubernatorial nominee in the United StatesMadeleine Albright , 1959 graduate of Wellesley College; first woman Secretary of State Tammy Baldwin , graduate of Smith College; first openly gay U.S. SenatorColleen Bell , graduate of Sweet Briar College; in 2015 became the US Ambassador to HungaryMary McLeod Bethune , 1894 graduate of Scotia Seminary (now Barber–Scotia College ); an adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt Benazir Bhutto , graduate of Radcliffe College ; first woman elected to lead a Muslim state ; Pakistan 's first (and to date only) female prime minister , serving twice, 1988–1990 and 1993–1996Elaine Chao , 1975 graduate of Mount Holyoke College; Secretary of Labor and Secretary of Transportation ; first Asian American woman to be appointed to the President's Cabinet Hillary Clinton , 1969 graduate of Wellesley College; former Secretary of State for Barack Obama ; formerly the junior United States senator from New York ; former First Lady of the United States (1993–2001)Ruth A. Davis , 1966 graduate of Spelman College; first woman of color to be appointed Director General of the Foreign Service ; first African-American Director of the Foreign Service Institute Geraldine Ferraro , 1956 graduate of Marymount Manhattan College ; first woman to represent a major U.S. political party as a candidate for Vice President , in 1984 Gabby Giffords , 1993 graduate of Scripps College ; represented Arizona's 8th Congressional district from 2007 until her resignation in 2012 due to the aftermath of an assassination attemptKatherine Harris , 1979 graduate of Agnes Scott College; former Florida Secretary of State and U.S. RepresentativeElizabeth P. Hoisington , 1940 graduate of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland ; one of the first two women to be promoted to Brigadier General in the United States Army, at the time being Director of the Women's Army Corps; President Nixon announced her promotion in 1970Katherine G. Howard , attended Salem Academy and Salem College before graduating from Smith College ; worked in the Eisenhower administration in the Federal Civil Defense Administration, as the U.S. delegate to the NATO committee on civil defense, and as Deputy U.S. Commissioner General to the Brussels World FairFrank M. Hull , 1970 graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College ; judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitJeane Jordan Kirkpatrick , graduate of Stephens College (then a two-year institution) and later Barnard College; first female U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Blanche Lincoln , 1982 graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College ; Democratic U.S. Senator from Arkansas, 1999–2011; previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Arkansas' 1st congressional district; at age 38, was the youngest woman to be elected to the Senate, in 1998Barbara Mikulski , 1958 graduate of Mount St. Agnes College, now part of Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland; graduate of the Institute of Notre Dame ; the senior woman in the United States Senate; Maryland's senior SenatorNancy Pelosi , 1962 graduate of Trinity College (now Trinity Washington University ); graduate of the Institute of Notre Dame in Baltimore; first woman Speaker of the House Frances Perkins , 1902 graduate of Mount Holyoke College; first woman cabinet member (U.S. Secretary of Labor , 1933–1945, under Franklin D. Roosevelt )Susan Philips, 1967 graduate of Agnes Scott College; first woman to chair a financial regulatory agency (the Commodity Futures Trading Commission )
Sarah Childress Polk , attended Salem Female Academy in 1817 (later became Salem College); wife of US President James K. Polk Emily J. Reynolds , 1978 graduate of Stephens College; Secretary of the United States Senate , 2003–2007; Senior Vice President for Government Relations with the Tennessee Valley Authority Virginia Shehee , graduate of Stephens College; first woman elected to the Louisiana State Senate (1975)Patsy Ticer , 1955 graduate of Sweet Briar College; member of the Virginia Senate, 1996–2012Teresa Tomlinson , 1987 graduate from Sweet Briar College; first woman to be elected mayor of Columbus, Georgia, in 2011; became the Chair of Sweet Briar's Board of DirectorsSusan Webber Wright , 1970 graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College ; US district court judge in Little Rock, Arkansas; presided over Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit against former President Bill Clinton; was involved with the investigation of the Whitewater scandal with Kenneth Starr
Laurie Anderson , graduate of Barnard College ; avant-garde artist and musicianElizabeth Bell , 1950 graduate of Wellesley College; composerDebra Martin Chase , graduate of Mount Holyoke College; Hollywood producerChina Chow , 1996 graduate of Scripps College ; actressSofia Coppola , attended Mills College ; directorRuby Dee , attended Hunter College ; actorDenise Di Novi , graduate of Simmons College ; Hollywood producerNnenna Freelon , graduate of Simmons College; jazz vocalistLauren Graham , graduate of Barnard College; American actress best known for her role as Lorelai Gilmore on popular TV series Gilmore Girls Katharine Hepburn , 1928 graduate of Bryn Mawr College; actressKeshia Knight Pulliam , graduate of Spelman College; best known for her role as Rudy Huxtable on The Cosby Show Beth Leavel , graduate of Meredith College; Tony Award –winning actressAli MacGraw , graduate of Wellesley College ; actress best known for performance in Goodbye, Columbus (1969) and Love Story (1970)Sally Mann , 1974 graduate of Hollins University; photographerElizabeth Mitchell , graduate of Stephens College; television actressDiana Muldaur , 1960 graduate of Sweet Briar College; movie and TV actress; first woman president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Jennifer Nettles , graduate of Agnes Scott College; lead singer of Grammy winning country band Sugarland Annie Potts , graduate of Stephens College; actressMercedes Ruehl , 1969 graduate of The College of New Rochelle ; Academy Award –winning stage and screen actressMeryl Streep , graduate of Vassar College; actressAnn Taylor , attended Sweet Briar College before transferring and graduating from the University of Tennessee ; newscaster for National Public Radio (NPR) Twyla Tharp , 1963 graduate of Barnard College; figure in the world of danceJennifer Tilly , graduate of Stephens College; Academy Award -nominated actressSuzanne Vega , graduate of Barnard College; musicianCelia Weston , graduate of Salem College; actress; nominated for an Oscar for Dead Man Walking The Last Night of Ballyhoo Greta Gerwig , graduate of Barnard College; actress, writer, director, and producer; nominated for an Oscar for Lady Bird Maggie Siff , graduate of Bryn Mawr College; actressFortune Feimster , graduate of Peace College; comedian, actress
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