(From left) Liz Carpenter with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Michele Fulcher, Jennifer Gilbert, Ann Martin and Quincalee Brown
the United States.” Among Good Housekeeping magazine’s “100 Women of Promise” (1985). Lynn Robinson Woolsey (Σ-Washington) Elected to her fifth term as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the Sixth Congressional District in California (since 1992). HEALTH/MEDICINE Dr. Joann Boughman (BT-Indiana) Geneticist.
University of Maryland, Baltimore, vice president for academic affairs and graduate school dean (since 1995). Named among “Maryland’s Top 100 Women” (1997, 1999, 2001). Secretary’s advisory committee on genetic testing, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1999). Edris Rice-Wray Carson, M.D. (∆-Cornell) Long career as a public health doctor, primarily in Central America and Mexico. Founded Mexico’s first family planning clinic, Mexico City. Received Planned Parenthood® Federation of America Margaret Sanger Award (1978). Dr. Patricia Kolowich (Θ-Michigan) Orthopedic surgeon and a team doctor for the Detroit Red Wings hockey team. Brigid Gray Leventhal, M.D. (B∆-UCLA) Former director of the Clinical Research Administration, Johns Hopkins Oncology Center; Associate professor of oncology and pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Ann Sigby McFarren (BB-Michigan State) Lobbyist and public advocate for programs in reproductive health. Developed Alpha Phi’s AIDS Peer Education Program. LAWYERS/JUDGES Marilyn Aboussie (ΓΩMidwestern State) Chief Justice, Third Court of Appeals, Texas
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(since 1998), the state’s first woman justice (1986). First woman district judge in Tom Green County, Texas (1983-86). Jane H. Barrett (ΓK-CSU/Long Beach) Los Angeles attorney and president of the American Bar Endowment. First woman to serve as chairperson of the American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division (1980-81). First woman in 104 years to be elected to the Association’s board of governors (1982). Carol Manhood Huddart (Ξ-Toronto) Appointed to the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the highest court in the province (1996). Appointed to County Court (1981) and Supreme Court (1987). Veronica “Ronni” Mathein (BA-Illinois) Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill., the world’s largest unified court system. Domestic Relations Division (since 1996). Dorothy Wright Nelson (B∆-UCLA) Senior judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, appointed in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter (senior judge since 1995). Former dean of the University of Southern California Law Center. Mildred Davis Ramynke (Ψ-South Dakota) Retired judge serving for 27 years. First and only woman to serve as a South Dakota circuit judge. Louise Grant Smith (OMissouri) First woman assistant attorney general of Missouri (1944). Past president of Kappa Beta Pi international law fraternity. Delegate from Missouri to the National Women’s Conference in Houston (1977). Susan Pierson Sonderby (BA-Illinois) First woman appointed to Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Illinois. Elevated to chief judge (1998).
JOURNALISTS/WRITERS Catherine Anaya (BΠ-USC) Emmy Award®-winning television news anchor for KCBS-TV in Los Angeles (see page 9 and Spring 2001 Quarterly). Barbara Blakemore (ΓDePauw) Former fiction editor of Redbook; Former executive editor of McCall’s. Past president of Women’s Media Group. Jodi Brooks (I-Wisconsin) Reporter and co-anchor for WPMI-TV in Mobile, Ala. Founder of A Secret Safe Place for Newborns, a national program that assures the safety of unwanted babies (see Spring 2001 Quarterly). Christy Bulkeley (O-Missouri) Daily newspaper reporter, editor and publisher for Gannett Co., Inc. for two decades. Program and grants administrator for the Gannett Foundation (now the Freedom Forum) for seven years. One of the first women publishers for Gannett Co. As a newspaper executive, she was the first woman Gannett named chief executive of a daily newspaper (1974). National president of Women in Communications, Inc. (1975-76). Elizabeth “Liz” Sutherland Carpenter (Ω-Texas) Writer, feminist. Former reporter and public relations expert. Press secretary and staff director to Lady Bird Johnson (1963-69) and author of Start with a Laugh, Ruffles & Flourishes, Getting Better All the Time and Unplanned Parenthood: Confessions of a Seventy Something Surrogate Mother. A founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus and of ERAmerica. Lisa Colagrossi (BI-West Virginia) Emmy®-winning television anchor, currently with WKMG in Orlando, Fla. Michelle Fulcher (BΓColorado) National editor of The Denver Post. Part of the Post
news team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for their coverage of the Columbine High School massacre of 1999 (see Fall 2000 Quarterly). Jennifer Gilbert (∆Y-Baldwin Wallace) Emmy Award®-winning television news anchor for WBFF-TV in Baltimore (since 1993). Donna Lipper Lucas (BΠ-USC) Chief executive officer/president of NCG Porter Novelli. Widely recognized expert in media relations and political/public affairs strategy. Press secretary to former Gov. George Deukmejian (California) and California press secretary for President George Bush’s successful 1988 campaign. California media director for 1992, 1996 Republican National Conventions. Ann Martin (Σ-Washington) Prime time news anchor and co-host of Woman 2 Woman, KCBS-TV, Los Angeles. Winner of three Emmy Awards®, two Golden Mike Awards and an award for best 30-minute news cast. Early in her career, first female to anchor the weekend news solo in Seattle, Wash. (see Spring 2001 Quarterly). Nan Robertson (BNorthwestern) Pulitzer Prize-
winning (1983) reporter and feature writer for the New York Times (1955-96). Author of Getting Better, Inside Alcoholics Anonymous (1988) and The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times (1992). STATE/NATIONAL LEADERS Dr. Quincalee Brown (ΓΞ-Wichita State) Executive director of the Water Environment Federation and the Water Environment Research Foundation (since 1986). Former chair of the American Society of Association Executives (ASEA) (1992-93). Former executive director of the American Association of University Women (1980-86). Recipient of ASEA’s highest, the Key Award (1995). Named Association Executive of the Year by Association Trends Newsletter (1999). Margaret Craig McNamara (Λ-UC/Berkeley) Founder of Reading is Fundamental®. Jane Wells Schooley (ΓP-Penn State) Public speaker, trainer and author of newspaper column. Civil and women’s rights advocate. Executive director, Pennsylvania Political Party. Former national vice president for National Organization for Women (NOW). Co-founder Crime Victims Council. Athena
ALUMNA IS FEATURED SPEAKER AT WOMEN’S CONFERENCE Becky Cook Cain (BI-West Virginia) was a featured speaker at the Pan-American Women’s Leadership Conference, Buffalo, N.Y., in May. The three-day conference focusing on women’s human rights drew attendees from around the world. Becky, who recently completed three terms as national president of the League of Women Voters (1992–98), spoke about “Making a Difference: Women in the Nonprofit Sector.” Becky Cook Cain
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