Panhellenic women have excelled in their fields, advanced scholarly interests and have helped make the world a better place. Many of these women were "pioneers," and opened fields of endeavor for women of today. Some are known internationally by colleagues in their chosen fields and others are well-known to members of the public.
The following lists are meant to serve as a sampling of the diversity and achievements of Panhellenic women.
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Arts & Communications
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| Architecture |
- Julia Morgan (1872-1957)
Opened her architectural office in San Francisco
in 1904. In more than 40 years she and her staff
designed and built more than 700 structures.
Among Morgan's designs include:
- Hearst mansion at San Simeon, CA
- Sacramento Public Market
- Mills College (Oakland) bell tower & library
- L.A. Examiner Building (newspaper)
- Univ of Calif Women's Gymnasium
- YWCA Conference Center at Pacific Grove
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| Authors |
- Pearl Buck
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
- Doris Kearns Goodwin (Historian)
- Cathy Guisewite
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- Nell Harper Lee
- Ann Rule
- Gail Sheehy
- Anne Rivers Siddons
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| Artists |
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| Entertainment |
- Ann-Margret
- Barbara Barrie
- Joy Behar
- Betty Buckley
- Kate Capshaw
- Dixie Carter
- Rita Coolidge
- Sheryl Crow
- Joyce DeWitt
- Faye Dunaway
- Barbara Feldon
- Phyllis George
- Amy Grant
- Patricia Heaton
- Eileen Heckart
- Florence Henderson
- Kate Jackson
- Ashley Judd
- Christine Lahti
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- Sherry Lansing
- Carol Lawrence
- Cloris Leachman
- Lucy Liu
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Rue McClanahan
- Donna Mills
- Mary Ann Mobley
- Charlotte Rae
- Gina Rowlands
- Eva Marie Saint
- Jean Smart
- Marlo Thomas
- Sela Ward
- Shawn Weatherly
- Joanne Woodward
- Dawn Wells
- Kimberly Williams
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| Journalists |
- Rita Braver
- Katie Couric
- Faith Daniels
- Phyllis George
- Leeza Gibbons
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- Joan Lunden
- Deborah Norville
- Jane Pauley
- Judy Woodruff
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Business and the Non-Profit Sector
(Present & Past)
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- Betty Stanley Beene
President/CEO
United Way of America
- Carol Bellamy
Executive Director
UNICEF
- Nancy Goodman Brinker
Founder
Susan G. Komen Foundation
- Linda Cross Dowdy
Managing editor for The Lyons Group
Creator and owner of Barney, the popular purple dinosaur featured on PBS
Author of Barney Goes to the Zoo
- Elizabeth Dole
Former President
Red Cross of America
- Lee Ducat
Founder
Juvenile Diabetes Foundation
- Paula Garrison
Founder
National Sleepwear
- Elizabeth Meyer Glazer and Susan Bernstein Zeegan
Founders
Pediatric AIDS Foundation
- Betty Holden
CEO
Kraft Foods
- Susan Kinder
President
American Express Travelers' Cheques
- June Kummer
Co-Owner
Adam's Mark Hotels
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- Betsey Johnson
Fashion Designer
- Alice Sheets Marriott
Co-Founder
Marriott Corporation
- Jennifer Biddulph Maxwell
Co-Creator, the Power Bar
- Elisa Lee Morgan
President/CEO
MOPS International, Inc.
- Anita Morris Pearlman
Founder
B'nai Brith Girls
- Anna Potter Person
Founder
Stretch and Sew
- Donna Stone Pesch
Founder/President
Prevent Child Abuse
- Mimi Halper Silbert
Founder
Delancey Street Foundation
- Melvynne Sommers
Founder
Save Our Seniors
- Henrietta Szold
Founder
Hadassah
- Rhoda Morrow Tomasco
Founder
Sunshine Kids Foundation
- Margaret Moffat Toy
Founder
Meals-on-Wheels
- Patricia Pulliam Upton
President/Chairman
AROMATIQUE
- Donna Wolfe
President
Jockey Inc.
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Law, Politics, Government, Military & Public Service
(Present & Past) |
| Presidential Appointees |
- Wendy Chamberlain
US Ambassador to Pakistan
- Barbara Hackman Franklin
Secretary of Commerce
- Shirley Mount Hufstedler
Secretary
Department of Education
- Karen Hughes
Presidential Spokesperson (former)
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- Lynn Martin
Secretary of Labor
- Francine Neff
US Treasurer
- Dr. Condoleeza Rice
National Security Advisor
- Ivy Baker Priest Stevens
US Treasurer
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| US Military |
- Margaret Brewer
Brigadier General
Marine Corps
- Marianne Blackburn Drew
Rear Admiral
Navy
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- Terry Walter Gabreski
Brigadier General
Air Force
- Claudia Kennedy
General
Army
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| Law |
- Carrie Chapman Catt
Suffragist & Founder
National League of Women Voters
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- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Justice
US Supreme Court
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| US Senators |
- Barbara Levy Boxer (CA)
- Jocelyn Burdick (ND)
- Jean Carnahan (MO)
- Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX)
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum (KS)
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- Mary Landrieu (LA)
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln (AR)
- Maurine Brown Newberger (OR)
- Margaret Chase Smith (ME)
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| Governors |
- Martha Layne Collins
Kentucky
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- Jane Swift
Massachusetts
| First Ladies |
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Science, Medicine & Aviation
(Present & Past)
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| Aviation |
- Jerrie Mock
First woman to successfully fly solo around the world
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- Donna Shirley
Mars Project Manager
NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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| Astronauts |
- Jan Davis
- Bonnie Dunbar
- Anna Fisher
- Susan Helms
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- Carolyn Huntoon
- Judith Resnik
- Rhea Seddon
- Mary Ellen Weber
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| Curator |
- Dr. Valerie Neal
Smithsonian Institution
National Air & Space Museum
Dept. of Space History
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| Science & Medicine |
- Dr. Linda Hawes Cleaver
First Woman Governor
American College of Physicians
- Rita Colwell
Director
National Science Foundation
- Dr. Gladys Henry Dick
Co-discoverer of the Dick Test for Scarlet Fever and the anti-toxin used in its treatment
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- Dian Fossey
Pioneer Zoologist
- Dr. Jessie Gray
First woman elected to the Royal Academy of Surgeons of Canada
- Mary Kathryn Hammock
Neurosurgeon & Founder
National Brain Research Association
- Julia Morgan
Architect of San Simeon
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Sports
(Present & Past)
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- Sally Hotchkiss Stanford
Wrestling Hall of Fame
(Outstanding Official)
- Susan Nattrass
Named Canada's
Best Athlete of 1981
(Trap Shooter)
- Judy Bell
First Woman President of the USGA
- Jo Anne Gunderson Carner
Two-time US Open Champion
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- Christine Brennan
Sportscaster
USA Today Sports Columnist
Sports Author
- Helen Hall Jacobs
Wimbledon and US Open Tennis Champion
- Pauline Betz Addie
Wimbledon and US Open Tennis Champion
- Anne Harper
Wimbledon Tennis Champion
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| Gold-Medal Olympians |
Donna DeVarona
Swimming
(also the first woman network television sportscaster)
Kay Hall
Swimming
Nancy Hogsbead
Swimming
Tracie Ruiz
Synchronized Swim Team
Jill Savery
Synchronized Swim Team
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Kerri Strug
Gymnastics
Pat Head Summitt
Coach, Gold-Medal Winning
Women's Basketball Team
(also coach of six women's basketball national championship teams)
Trischa Zorn
Winner of 40 Paralympic Gold Medals
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