13 Notable alumni of
Agnes Scott College
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Agnes Scott College is 2573rd in the world, 902nd in North America, and 854th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from Agnes Scott College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Joanna Moore
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Joanna Moore was an American film and television actress, who, between 1956 and 1976, appeared in 17 feature films and guest-starred in nearly a hundred television series episodes. After 1976, personal problems derailed her career and she landed only two minor film roles.
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Jennifer Nettles
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- singer-songwriterpianistsingerguitaristactor
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Jennifer Odessa Nettles is an American singer, songwriter, actress and record producer.
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Katherine Harris
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- politicianreal estate agent
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Katherine Harris is an American politician from Florida. A Republican, she served in the Florida Senate from 1994 to 1998, as Secretary of State of Florida from 1999 to 2002, and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida's 13th congressional district from 2003 to 2007. Harris lost her 2006 campaign for a United States Senate seat from Florida.
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Marsha Norman
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- music teacherwriterscreenwriter
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Marsha Norman is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play 'night, Mother. She wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as The Secret Garden, for which she won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and The Red Shoes, as well as the libretto for the musical The Color Purple and the book for the musical The Bridges of Madison County. She is co-chair of the playwriting department at The Juilliard School.
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Wasfia Nazreen
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- international forum participantsocial worker
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Wasfia Nazreen is a Bangladeshi mountaineer, activist, environmentalist, social worker and writer.
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Loretta Ross
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- writeracademicactivist
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Loretta J. Ross is an American academic, feminist, and activist who advocates for reproductive justice, especially among women of color. As an activist, Ross has written on reproductive justice activism and the history of African American women.
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Michelle Malone
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United States - Occupations
- composersinger-songwriter
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Michelle Malone is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Born and raised in Atlanta, she started performing in bands and writing songs as a teenager. Initially, she would sign with Arista Records after performing around parts of Atlanta. Soon after, she would release an album entitled Relentless with her band Drag the River. She would also collaborate with The Harshed Mellows with the song "U.S. Blues" for the tribute album Deadicated. She would again switch labels, going to Velvel Records, but decided to found her own record company, SBS Records.
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Jean H. Toal
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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Jean Hoefer Toal is an American former judge who was a chief justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina. She was the first woman and the first Roman Catholic to serve as chief justice. In 2013, she became the first chief justice on the Supreme Court of South Carolina since the 1800s to have an opponent run against her. Toal has continued to serve in the judiciary as a senior judge since her retirement from the Supreme Court.
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Susan M. Phillips
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- economist
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Susan Meredith Phillips is an American economist who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 1991 to 1998. She was the third woman to sit on the Board. After leaving the Fed, Phillips served as dean of the George Washington University School of Business from 1998 to 2010.
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Chesya Burke
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- novelistwriter
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Chesya Burke is an American editor, educator and author of comic books and speculative fiction, most notably horror and dark fantasy. She has published over a hundred short stories, essays, and articles in magazines and anthologies such as Clarkesworld, Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, and Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany. Her short story collection Let's Play White was published in 2011 while her debut novel, The Strange Crimes of Little Africa, was released in late 2015. Nikki Giovanni has compared Burke's fiction to that of Octavia Butler and Toni Morrison.
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Martha Priscilla Shaw
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- politicianteacher
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Martha Priscilla Shaw was an American educator and politician in the state of South Carolina. She served as mayor of Sumter, South Carolina between 1952 and 1956, thus becoming the first female mayor in South Carolina.
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Anna Irwin Young
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- mathematician
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Anna Irwin Young was an American professor of mathematics, physics and astronomy and in 1916 was a charter member of the Mathematical Association of America.
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Ivylyn Girardeau
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- physicianmissionary
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Ivylyn Lee Girardeau was an American medical doctor and missionary in India and Pakistan.
