Katharine Meyer Graham was an American publisher and the second female publisher of a major American newspaper, following Eliza Jane Nicholson's ownership of the New Orleans Daily Picayune (1876-1896). She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period: the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Her memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.
Mary Rose Oakar is an American Democratic politician and former member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio, the first Democratic woman elected to the United States Congress from that state. Oakar was also the first woman of Arab-American ancestry to serve in Congress. She is currently a member of the Ohio State Board of Education.
Mary Louise Smith, a U.S. political organizer and women's rights activist, was the second woman to become chair of a major political party in the United States.
Eleanor Smeal is one of the major leaders of the modern-day American feminist movement. Smeal is the president and a cofounder of the Feminist Majority Foundation and has served as president of the National Organization for Women for three terms, in addition to her work as an activist, grassroots organizer, lobbyist, and political analyst.
Gladys Noon Spellman was a U.S. Congresswoman who represented the 5th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1975, to February 24, 1981. She was a member of the Democratic Party.
Wendy Turnbull,, is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. During her career, she won nine Grand Slam titles, four of them in women's doubles and five of them in mixed doubles. She also was a three-time Grand Slam singles runner-up and won 11 singles titles and 55 doubles titles.
American Banker is a daily trade newspaper and website covering the financial services industry. Founded in 1836 and based in New York, American Banker has approximately 50 reporters and editors in six U.S. cities who monitor developments and breaking news affecting banks.
Ellen Rose Alemany is an American business executive. She is the Chairwoman and CEO of CIT Group, one of the top 50 largest banks in the United States. In October 2013, she retired as chairman and CEO of RBS Citizens Financial Group and RBS Americas. In 2015, she returned from retirement to become the CEO of CIT Group.
Kenneth D. Moelis is an American billionaire investment banker, and founder of Moelis & Company, an investment banking firm.
William M. "Bill" Isaac was the Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) from 1981 through 1985. He founded the regulatory consulting firm The Secura Group LLC which is now a part of FTI Consulting, Inc., a global consulting firm. Isaac sits on a number of corporate boards and speaks and writes regularly on financial and regulatory issues.
Mary Houghton is co-founder of ShoreBank, the largest and oldest community development bank. Houghton, along with Milton Davis, James Fletcher, and Ron Grzywinski purchased what was then South Shore Bank to fight redlining in the Chicago neighborhood. She retired as president in May 2010.
Barbara Hackman Franklin is an American government official, corporate director, and business executive. She served as the 29th U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1992-1993 to President George H.W. Bush, during which she led a Presidential mission to China.
Lois Gould was an American writer, known for her novels and other works about women's lives. She was born in Manhattan, the daughter of fashion designer Jo Copeland and Edward J. Regensburg, Jr., a cigar manufacturer. Gould's 1998 memoir of life with her mother, Mommy Dressing: A Love Story, After a Fashion, enjoyed widespread critical praise.
Stephanie Leigh Ruhle is an NBC News correspondent since April 2016 and anchor of MSNBC Livewith Stephanie Ruhle and Velshi & Ruhle. Previously, Ruhle was managing editor and news anchor for Bloomberg Television and editor-at-large for Bloomberg News. Ruhle co-hosted the Bloomberg Television show Bloomberg GO. Ruhle was one of three Bloomberg reporters who broke the story of the London Whale, identifying the trader behind the 2012 JPMorgan Chase trading loss.
Natalie Dunn, also known as Natalie Dunn Fries, was the first American woman to win the world championship in figure roller-skating, which she did in 1976. She won her first event at age seven, and won the national women's single at age sixteen.
Debbie Gary Callier is an American air show pilot. She began flying at age nineteen, and was the first woman to fly in a formation aerobatic team. She also wrote the Bellanca Pilot Proficiency Training Manual.
Ann Carr, also known as Ann Carr-Tunney, is an American gymnast. She was a U.S. National Team member at the 1974 World Gymnastics Championships, as well as at the 1975 Pan American Games where she earned gold medals in the team competition, all-around, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise, and several other international competitions. She was the first woman to receive a full athletic scholarship from Penn State University, where she competed from 1977 through 1980. She led her gymnastics team at Penn State to first place in 1978 and 1980, and finished first individually in the all-around, balance beam, floor and uneven bars in 1978, and second in the all-around in 1980. She received the Broderick Sports Award, the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame Meritorious Achievement Award, and Penn State University’s Eric A. Walker Award. She later served as the owner, manager, and coach of the Lakettes Gymnastics Academy in Erie, Pennsylvania, from 1981 through 1985.
Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, born as Jane Pennington Cahill on September 29, 1932 in Washington, D.C. died March 5, 2019 in Vero Beach, FL. Mrs. Pfeiffer was the first chairwoman of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) between 1978 and 1980.
Katharine Bartlett (1907–2001) was an American physical anthropologist who worked from 1930 to 1952 as the first curator of the Museum of Northern Arizona, cataloging and organizing the museum's holdings, and then as the museum's librarian until 1981. She participated in a survey of the Navajo Nation's reservation in the Little Colorado River basin and established the cataloging system used by the Glen Canyon Archaeological Project. She was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association and a Fellow of the Society of American Archaeology, as well as the first Fellow of the MNA. Honored in an exhibit of the Smithsonian Institution in 1986 and a recipient of the 1991 Sharlot Hall Award for her contributions to Arizona history, she was posthumously inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame in 2008.
