11 Notable alumni of
Notre Dame of Maryland University
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Notre Dame of Maryland University is 3423rd in the world, 1182nd in North America, and 1122nd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 11 notable alumni from Notre Dame of Maryland University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Frances Benjamin Johnston
- Occupations
- photojournalistphotographerarchitectural photographerartistjournalist
- Biography
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Frances Benjamin Johnston was an early American photographer and photojournalist whose career lasted for almost half a century. She is most known for her portraits, images of southern architecture, and various photographic series featuring African Americans and Native Americans at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Helen Dortch Longstreet
- Occupations
- women's rights activistenvironmentalisteditorpublisherlibrarian
- Biography
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Helen Dortch Longstreet, known as the "Fighting Lady", was an American social advocate, librarian, and newspaper woman serving as reporter, editor, publisher, and business manager. She was the first woman who tried to secure a public office in the state of Georgia. She was the second wife of Confederate general James Longstreet. She earned her nickname from being a champion of causes such as preservation of the environment and civil rights. She is also remembered for her work as a Confederate memorialist and postmistress. In Governor William Yates Atkinson's first campaign, she rendered him valuable service by her vigorous editorials. Her stirring fight to have women made eligible to the position of State Librarian was the first successful movement in the State of Georgia toward breaking down the prejudice against women holding high political positions. Dortch Longstreet was the proprietor and editor of two weeklies, Vice-President of the Georgia Weekly Press Association, Secretary of the Woman's Press Club of Georgia, and Assistant Librarian of the State of Georgia. She was also the leader of the movement to have the University of Georgia opened to women, was an advocate of modern industrial education, and took interest in the advancement of the women of her State and country. She died in 1962.
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Susan Love
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- writersurgeon
- Biography
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Susan Margaret Love was an American surgeon, a prominent advocate of preventive breast cancer research, and author. She was regarded as one of the most respected women's health specialists in the United States. Love is best known for pioneering work fueled by her criticism of the medical establishment's paternalistic treatment of women. She was an early advocate of cancer surgery that conserves as much breast tissue as possible. She also was among the first to sound the alarm on the risks of routine hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopausal women.
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Elizabeth P. Hoisington
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Elizabeth Paschel Hoisington was a United States Army officer who was one of the first two women to attain the rank of brigadier general.
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Mary Ann Lisanti
- Occupations
- politician
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Mary Ann Lisanti is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party, who represented District 34A in the Maryland House of Delegates. Previously she represented district F on the Harford County Council, representing Havre de Grace, Abingdon, Belcamp/Riverside and Aberdeen Proving Ground. In January 2014 Lisanti filed to run for the Maryland House of Delegates and to not seek a 3rd term on the County Council. In early March 2019, the House of Delegates unanimously censured Lisanti for a racial slur directed at the African-American majority Prince George's County, with her own county's Democratic Party calling for her resignation.
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Margaret M. Sweeney
- Occupations
- judge
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Margaret Mary Sweeney is a senior judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, appointed to that court in 2005 by President George W. Bush. She served as chief judge from July 12, 2018 to October 19, 2020.
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Irene Patricia Murphy Keeley
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Irene Patricia Murphy Keeley is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia.
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L. Paige Marvel
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Lynda Paige Marvel is an American lawyer who serves as a senior judge of the United States Tax Court.
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Shelley Puhak
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Shelley Puhak is an American poet and writer. She was Eichner Professor of Creative Writing at Notre Dame of Maryland University. She won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize for her poetry collection Guinevere in Baltimore. She was a National Poetry Series winner for her poetry collection Harbinger She is also the author of The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World, a double biography.
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Frances Maule Bjorkman
- Years
- 1879-1966 (aged 87)
- Occupations
- suffragistwriter
- Biography
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Frances Maule Bjorkman was a New Yorker prominent in the woman's suffrage movement. She was a member of the National Woman Suffrage Association. She was a member of the Heterodoxy women's group. She lived at the Helicon Home Colony, an experimental community founded by Upton Sinclair.
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Sandra L. Pack
- Occupations
- accountant
- Biography
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Sandra Lee "Sandy" Pack was United States Assistant Secretary of the Army from 2001 to 2003 and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Management & Chief Financial Officer from 2005 to 2006.
