Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1832
(Troy Female Seminary)
Women’s rights activist
Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage 1847
(Troy Female Seminary)
Philanthropist, founded Russell Sage College for women in 1916
Mary Arthur 1857
(Troy Female Seminary)
Sister of President Chester Arthur, served as First Lady during his term
Mrs. Marshall Field (Nancy Scott) 1857
(Troy Female Seminary)
Philanthropist
Mrs. Cyrus McCormick (Nettie Fowler) 1853
(Troy Female Seminary)
Philanthropist
Lily Price 1872
Dutchess of Marlborough (later Lady Beresford)
Clementine Miller Tangeman ’23
Philanthropist
Helen Snell Cheel ’23
Philanthropist
Jane Seddon Willson ’41
Pecan farmer, statewide business leader in Georgia, first female board member of Bell South
Hope McEldowney Kobak ’40
President/co-founder, Kirkus Reviews
Sue McKee Wierengo ’49
Founder, Michigan Hospice
Polly Ormsby Longsworth ’51
Emily Dickinson scholar, biographer
Recipient of Amherst College's Medal for Eminent Service
Jean Bernhard Buttner ’53
CEO, Valueline, investment advisory company
Jane Fonda ’55
Academy Award-winning actor, citizen activist, philanthropist
Sara Lubin Schupf ’58
Philanthropist, former spokesperson for the Sara Lee Baking Company
Florence Habiby Browne ’58
Founder/executive director of the Arab-American Family Support Center in NYC
Kendra Stearns O’Donnell ’60
Scholar and first female head of school of Phillips Exeter Academy
Jameson Adkins Baxter ’61
Investment banker, served concurrently as Board president for Mount Holyoke College and Emma Willard School
Michael Gage ’61
Administrative judge in charge of the 47 family courts in New York City
Mary Lake Polan ’61
First female chair of clinical department at Stanford University Medical School
Jennifer von Mayrhauser Cottrell ’65
Emmy-nominated costume designer who has received an Obie for Sustained Excellence
Elizabeth L. Colton ’66
Founder/executive director, International Museum of Women, San Francisco
Jane Wales ’66
International security policy expert
Hannah Chase Kinney ’67
Groundbreaking researcher on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Laurie Burt ’67
One of the nation’s leading environmental attorneys
Ruth Scovill ’68
Digital production technology, feature film industry, Oscar winner
Antonia Stolper ’75
International attorney, political activist
Robin Bell ’76
Research geologist
Jyoti Srivastava ’77
Pioneer, restorative dentistry, associate professor at New York University School of Dentistry
Coleman Hough ’78
Screenwriter, playwright
Erin Crotty '84
First female Commissioner of Environmental Conservation for New York State
Kirsten Rutnik Gillibrand ’84
U.S. Representative, D-Greenport, NY
U.S. Senator
