NPC Women of Accomplishment

NPC Women of Accomplishment
Courtesy of National Panhellenic Conference www.npcwomen.org

Panhellenic Women in: Education

Marinell Ash, BBC Educational Producer
Jahnae Harper Barnett, First Woman President of William Woods University
Barbara Aronstein Black, Former Dean, Columbia Law School
Jean M. Buckley, President/CEO, Phi Beta Lambda, Future Business Leaders of America
Dr. Joy Garrison Cauffman, Professor Emerita, University of Southern California
Ruth Colvin, Founder and President, Literacy Volunteers of America
Ada Louise Comstock, President, Radcliffe College
Peggy Gordon Elliott, President, South Dakota State University
Dr. Deborah Floyd, President Emerita, Prestonsburg Community College, Kentucky
Patricia Albjerg Graham, Dean of Graduate Education, Harvard University
Dr. Marsha Guenzler-Stevens, Director of Activities & Associate Director of the Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland, College Park
Anna Rose Hawes, Dean, Mills College, AAUW National President
Karen Holbrook, Former President, The Ohio State University
Betty Jacka, President, National Merit, Scholarship Corporation
Dr. May Lansfield Keller, Founding Dean of Westhampton College at the University of Richmond
Maria Leonard, Founder, Alpha Lambda Delta, National Scholastic Honorary Society
Franees Lucas-Taucher, President, Millsaps College
Kathryn Sisson Phillips, Organized the National Association of Deans of Women and was its first president
Dr. Shirley Raines, President, The University of Memphis
Patsy Bostick Reed, Chancellor, University of North Carolina at Ashville
Clyda Stokes Rent, President, Mississippi University for Women
Dr. Judith Rodin, President, University of Pennsylvania
Kayla Mays Stroup, Missouri State Commissioner of Higher Education
Nancy L. Zimpher, President, University of Cincinnati

Arts and Communication

Barbara Barrie, Actress, Author
Rita Braver, CBS News National Correspondent
Beth Brickell, Actress
Dr. Joyce Brothers, Psychologist and Advice Columnist
Pearl Buck, Author
Andrea Canning, ABC News National Correspondent in Washington D.C.
Kate Capshaw, Actress
Dixie Carter, Actress
Kristin Chenoweth, Actress
Shirley Christian, Pulitzer Prize winner
Lisa Colagrossi, Emmy Award-winning news anchor
Rita Coolidge, Grammy-winning Singer
Joan Ganz Cooney, Businesswoman and Television Producer; Creator of Sesame Street
Katie Couric, News Anchor
Sheryl Crow, Singer
Margaret Truman Daniel, Writer; Daughter of President Harry Truman
Faith Daniels, News Anchor, Media Personality
Agnes DeMille, Dancer, Choreographer
Joyce Dewitt, Actress
Faye Dunaway, Academy Award-winning Actress
Nanette Fabray, Actress
Donna Fargo, Singer
Barbara Feldon, Actress; Game show panelist of the 1960s and model
Ruth Ford, Actress
Nancy Foreman, Actress
Jennifer Garner, Actress
Phyllis George, News Anchor
Leeza Gibbons, Talk Show Host
Nancy Grace, CNN News Anchor
Sue Grafton, Author
Amy Grant, Singer
Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist; Created comic strip Cathy
Edith Head, Academy Award-winning Costume Designer
Patricia Heaton, Actress
Eileen Heckart, Academy Award and Tony Award-Winning Actress of Stage, Screen and Television
Florence Henderson, Actress
Jane Henson, Co-creator of The Muppets Show
Marilyn Horne, Opera Singer
Kate Jackson, Actress
Ashley Judd, Actress
Nancy Kulp, Actress
Christine Lahti, Actress
Sherry Lansing, Former CEO, Paramount Pictures; First woman to head a major studio
Carol Lawrence, Actress
Cloris Leachman, Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Actress
Nell Harper Lee, Author
Lucy Liu, Actress
Heather Locklear, Actress
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress
Joan Lunden, Broadcaster, Former "Good Morning America" Host
Victoria MacKenzie-Childs, New York Yankees Co-owner
Patricia Pritzkau MacLachlin, Author; Winner of 66th John Newberry Medal
Ann-Margret, Singer, Dancer
Rue McClanahan, Actress
Bette Midler, Actress, Singer
Donna Mills, Actress
Mary Ann Mobley, Actress, Former Miss America
Patricia Neal, Academy Award-winning Actress
Agnes Nixon, Emmy Award-winning Writer and Producer
Deborah Norville, Television Broadcaster and Journalist
Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist
Jane Pauley, Television Journalist
Kyra Phillips, CNN News Anchor and Correspondent
Sylvia F. Porter, Columnist
Paula Prentiss, Actress
Dorothy Provine, Singer, Dancer, Actress, Comedian
Gena Rowlands, Actress
Atoosa Rubenstein, Editor in Chief, Seventeen magazine
Charlotte Rue, Author
Jeri Ryan, Actress
Eva Marie Saint, Academy Award-winning Actress
Gail Sheehy, Cultural Observer and Author
Cybill Shepherd, Actress
Dinah Shore, Singer, Actress
Anne Rivers Siddons, Author
Jean Smart, Actress
Jennifer Smith, Producer of CNN's "Crossfire"
Suzy Spafford, Cartoonist
Marlo Thomas, Actress
Marcia Wallace, Actress
Carrie Underwood, Singer
Sela Ward, Actress
Carole Warner, Pulitzer Prize Winner
Dawn Wells, Actress
Ruth Whitney, Former Editor in Chief, Glamour Magazine
Judy Woodruff, TV Newscaster
Joanne Woodward, Actress
Kimberly Williams, Actress
Liz Winstead, Creator of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show”
Helen Levison Worth, Author

Business and the Non-Profit Sectors

Betty Stanley Beene, President/CEO, United Way of America
Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, UNICEF
Bridget Ryan Berman, Retail Group President, Polo Ralph Lauren
Sara Blakely, Founder, Spanx
Nancy Goodman Brinker, Founder, Susan G. Komen Foundation
Lee Ducat, Founder, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation
Paula Garrison, Founder, National Sleepwear
Elizabeth Meyer Glazer, Founder, Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Dr. Ruth Hartgraves, President, American Women's Association
Betsy Holden, CEO, Kraft Foods
Betsey Johnson, Fashion Designer
Susan Kinder, President, American Express, Travelers' Cheques
June Kummer, Co-owner, Adam's Mark Hotels
Alice Sheets Marriott, Co-founder, Marriott Corp.
Jennifer Biddulph Maxwell, Co-creator, the Power Bar
Patricia Miller, Co-owner/President, Vera Bradley Designs
Pat Mitchell, President, PBS
Margaret Moffat Toy, Founder, Meals-on-Wheels
Elisa Lee Morgan, President/CEO, MOPS International, Inc.
Anita Morris Pearlman, Founder, B'nai Brith Girls
Ann Potter Person, Founder, Stretch and Sew
Donna Stone Pesch, Founder/President, Prevent Child Abuse America
Mimi Halper Silbert, Founder, Delancey Street Foundation
Melvynne Sommers, Founder, Save Our Seniors
Kate Spade, Designer
Henrietta Szold, Founder, Hadassah
Rhoda Morrow Tomasco, Founder, Sunshine Kids Foundation
Patricia Pulliam Upton, President/ Chairman, AROMATIQUE
Donna Wolfe, President, Jockey Inc.
Susan Bernstein Zeegan, Founder, Pediatric AIDS Foundation

Science, Medicine, and Aviation

Dr. Linda Hawes Cleaver, First Woman Governor, American College of Physicians
Rita Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation
Dr. Gladys Henry Dick, Co-discoverer, Test for Scarlet Fever and the anti-toxin used in its treatment
Jan Davis, Astronaut
Bonnie Dunbar, Astronaut
Dr. Marion Fay, First Woman President of a Medical College (The Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia)
Anna Fisher, Astronaut
Dian Fossey, Pioneer Zoologist
Dr. Jessie Gray, First Woman elected to the Royal Academy of Surgeons of Canada
Mary Kathryn Hammock, Neurosurgeon & Founder of National Brain Research Association
Susan Helms, Astronaut
Carolyn Huntoon, Astronaut
Jerrie Mock, First woman to successfully fly solo around the world
Julia Morgan, Architect, San Simeon
Dr. Valerie Neal, Curator, Smithsonian Institution, National Air & Space Museum, Department of Space History
Judith Resnik, Astronaut
Donna Shirley, Mars Project Manager, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mary Ellen Weber, Ph.D., Astronaut

Law, Politics, Government, Military & Public Service

Eva Bertrand Adams, Director of the first U.S. Mint
Gracia Backer, Missouri State House of Representatives
Jane H. Barrett, First Woman on the Board of the American Bar Association
Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, Governor of Louisiana; First woman governor of Louisiana
Barbara Levy Boxer, U.S. Senator (D-CA)
Margaret A. Brewer, Brigadier General, Marine Corps
Carol Laise Bunker, U.S. Ambassador to Nepal 1966-1973; First woman Director General, Foreign Service
Jocelyn Burdick, U.S. Senator (D-ND)
Laura Welch Bush, First Lady, U.S.
Shelley Moore Capito, U.S. House of Representatives (R-WV)
Jean Carnahan, U.S. Senator (D-MO)
Carrie Chapman Catt, Suffragist & Founder of the National League of Women Voters
Lynn Cheney, Wife of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney
Martha Layne Collins, Governor of Kentucky; First and only woman governor to date in Kentucky
Grace Goodhue Coolidge, First Lady, U.S.
Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator (R-NC); Former President, Red Cross of America
Marianne Blackburn Drew, Rear Admiral, Navy
Terri Walter Gabreski, Brigadier General, Air Force
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
Mary Gladwin, Red Cross nurse who served in three wars from 1898 to 1919, decorated by the United States, Russian, Japanese and Serbian governments
Shirley Mount Hufstedler, Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Karen Hughes, Presidential Spokesperson
Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Senator (R-TX)
Nancy Landon Kassebaum, U.S. Senator (R-KS)
Yvonne Kauger, Chief Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court
Claudia Kennedy, General, Army
Mary Landrieu, U.S. Senator (D-LA)
Blanche Lambert Lincoln, U.S. Senator (D-AR)
Bessie Margolin, U.S. Labor Department Appeals Attorney
Lynn Martin, Former U.S. Secretary of Labor
Virginia Dill McCarty, Former U.S. Attorney General; First Woman named to a full term as the Attorney General
Betty Montgomery, Attorney General of Ohio; First woman Attorney General
Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Senator (R-AK)
Offira Navon, First Lady, Israel
Francine Neff, Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Maurine Brown Neuberger, U.S. Senator (D-OR)
Dr. Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State
Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Senator (R-ME)
Ivy Baker Priest Stevens, Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Annette Greenfield Strauss, Mayor, Dallas, Texas; First woman mayor of Dallas
Jane Swift, Governor of Massachusetts
Alma Bell Wilson, Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court