Arts & Entertainment

Pamela Long Hammer, QA, head writer for CBS' Guiding Light Susan Harling, KI, inspiration for the play and movie Steel Magnolias Joyce Carol Oates, BZ, author of Blonde: A Novel, We Were the Mulvaneys, and many other renowned novels Mary Wickes, ZE, actress, Aunt March in Little Women and Sister Mary Lazarus in Sister Act

Aviation

Jerrie Mock, Y, first woman to successfully fly solo around the world Mary Ellen Weber, Ph.D., DE, astronaut, Space Shuttle Atlantis Mission, May 2000; Space Shuttle Discovery Mission, July 1995

Business

Tammy Cohen, AL, owner and founder of ERS, a multi-million dollar corporation that performs employee screening for Fortune 500 Companies Yvette Sims, AT, president of the National Bar Association

Government

Carol Laise Bunker , GD, U.S. Ambassador to Nepal 1966-1973, first woman director general of the Foreign Service Betty Montgomery, DK, currently serving as the first female Attorney General of Ohio Kathleen D. Morrison, HB, first commanding officer of the Naval Medical Clinic and Legion of Merit award winner Melinda Schwegmann, AH, first female Lt. Governor of Louisiana Elizabeth Weaver, D, currently a Michigan Supreme Court Justice and former chief justice Commander Tova Wiley, HA, first woman to hold the rank of Commander in the U.S. Navy, winner of the Legion of Merit Award

Journalism

Pat Mitchell, AA, president, PBS Toria Tolley, BN, VP/consultant, The Psychological Advantage, former CNN weekend anchor

Sports

Gayle Barron, AA, winner of the Boston Marathon, 1978. Partner of multi-million dollar fitness center franchise