List of Hollins University people

The following is a list of individuals associated with Hollins University through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.

Notable alumni

Activism

• Ellen Malcolm, Founder of EMILY's List, 1969^[1]
• Emily Wheat Maynard, jewelry designer and founder of Elva Fields Jewelry, 2000^[1]

Arts

• Brandy S. Culp, curator of the Historic Charleston Foundation's collection of fine and decorative arts, 1998^[1]
• Sally Mann, photographer and writer, shortlisted for 2015 National Book Award, 1974, M.A. 1975^[1]

Authors ^[2]

• Madison Smartt Bell, author of Ten Indians, M.A. 1981
• Jenny Boully, author of five books, associate professor of creative writing, Columbia College Chicago, 1998, M.A. 1999
• Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon, 1932
• Amanda Cockrell, children's book author, 1969, M.A. 1988
• Kiran Desai, author and recipient of the Man Booker Prize in 2006, M.A. 1994^[1]
• Tony D'Souza, author of Whiteman, M.A. 1998
• Cathryn Hankla, American poet, 1980, M.A. 1982
• Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, author of A Woman Of Independent Means, B.A. 1960
• Jill McCorkle, author, 1981
• Ethel Morgan Smith, author of From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College, 1999
• Lee Smith, author and winner of many awards including the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and two O. Henry Awards, 1967^[1]
• Edna Henry Lee Turpin, American author of children's books, ALND 1887

Business

• Holly Hendrix, financial advisor, named to the Financial Times of London's Top 400 Advisors for 2015,^[3] 1975
• Caroline Hipple, former executive vice president of This End Up and president of Storehouse Furniture, 1977
• Shannon Ravenel, cofounder of Algonquin Press, 1960
• Alexandra Trower, executive vice president of global communications at Estee Lauder, recipient of the International Women's Media Foundation's Corporate Leadership Award, 1986^[1]

Government and Public Service

• Jennifer Boysko, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 2016
• Betsy Brooks Carr, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1968^[1]
• Elizabeth Brownlee Kolmstetter, one of the first federal employees tapped to create the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the aftermath of 9/11, 1985^[1]
• Pamela Jo Howell Slutz, career diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Burundi and Mongolia, 1970
• Flo Neher Traywick, first woman in Virginia to be nominated by either party to run for Congress (House of Representatives)-Sixth Congressional District, 1945
• Elizabeth Fentress Goodwin, cofounder, National Down Syndrome Society, 1969

Higher Education

• Linda Koch Lorimer, president, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College; vice president for global and strategic initiatives, Yale University, 1974

Law

• Tiffany M. Graves, executive director, Mississippi Access to Justice Commission, 1997^[1]
• Callie V. Granade, district judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, 1972

Journalism

• Suzanne Allen, Emmy Award-winning senior coordinating producer for CBS' 48_Hours_(TV_series), 1969
• Ann Compton, ABC News White House correspondent, 1969
• M. L. Flynn, senior producer, editorial planning, NBC Nightly News, 1972
• Mary Garber, first woman sportswriter in the Atlantic Coast Conference, 1938
• Ruth Hale, journalist, feminist, and founder of the Lucy Stone League
• M. Carrie Allan, Washington Post columnist, nominated for the James Beard Award in the journalism category for In New Orleans, Terrific Cocktails Never Went out of Fashion, 1998, M.A. 1999
• Elizabeth Valk Long, first woman publisher of Time Inc., 1972

Media and Entertainment

• George Butler, documentary filmmaker and writer, M.A. 1968
• Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, owner and CEO of the Gotham Group, dubbed one of Hollywood's Most Powerful Women, 1984
• Beth Macy, author, whose book Factory Man was a New York Times best seller and optioned by Playtone for an HBO mini series, M.A. 1998
• Donna Richardson, fitness and aerobics instructor, author and television sports commentator, ALND 1984
• Claire Sanders Swift, Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist and prominent national media consultant, 1985
• Ellen Stokes, Emmy nominated and CableACE Award winning producer and director, 1972
• Eleanor D. Wilson, actress and Tony Award nominee, 1930
• Danielle D. Rollins, Gracious Living & Stylish Entertaining™ lifestyle expert, author of Soiree: Entertaining with Style, 1990
• Sadie Tillery, director of programming, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, 2005
• Veronica Votypka, co-executive producer for Harpo Studios/Oprah Winfrey Network, 1999^[1]

Pulitzer Prize Winners

• Mary Wells Ashworth, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, 1924
• Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, 1967, M.A. 1968^[1]
• Henry S. Taylor, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, M.A. 1966
• Natasha Trethewey, American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2007, United States Poet Laureate, M.A. 1991^[1]

Science and Medicine

• Jennifer Berman, pioneer in the field of female urology and female sexual medicine, 1986
• Mary E. Hatten, Frederick P. Rose Professor and head of Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, Rockefeller University, 1971

Sports

• Carol Semple Thompson, amateur golf champion, elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame, 1970^[1]
• Charlotte Fox, first woman to have climbed three of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks, 1979

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