15 Notable alumni of
Sweet Briar College
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Sweet Briar College is 2491st in the world, 864th in North America, and 818th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 15 notable alumni from Sweet Briar 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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Diana Muldaur
- Occupations
- film actorvoice actortelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Diana Muldaur is an American film and television actress. Muldaur's television roles include Rosalind Shays on L.A. Law and Dr. Katherine Pulaski in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series in the late 1960s, playing different roles (Drs. Miranda Jones and Ann Mulhall). She has been nominated for an Emmy twice, as a supporting actress on L.A. Law in 1990 and 1991.
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Colleen Bell
- Occupations
- philanthropisttelevision producer
- Biography
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Colleen Bell is an American television producer known for her work on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful and for her involvement in various social issues. She was appointed Director of the California Film Commission by Governor Gavin Newsom on May 23, 2019, to manage the state's tax credit program, increase the representation of women and minorities, and promote California as a production locale. She was appointed United States Ambassador to Hungary by United States President Barack Obama and took office on January 21, 2015.
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Teresa Tomlinson
- Enrolled in Sweet Briar College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Teresa Pike Tomlinson is an American politician and attorney. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She was elected and served as the 69th Mayor of Columbus, Georgia, in 2010. On January 3, 2011, she was sworn in as the city's first female mayor.
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Sally Miller Gearhart
- Enrolled in Sweet Briar College
- Studied in 1952
- Occupations
- women's rights activistuniversity teachernovelistwriterscience fiction writer
- Biography
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Sally Miller Gearhart was an American teacher, feminist, science-fiction writer, and political activist. In 1973, she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired by San Francisco State University, where she helped establish one of the first women and gender study programs in the country. She later became a nationally known gay rights activist.
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Molly Haskell
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Molly Clark Haskell is an American film critic and author. She contributed to The Village Voice—first as a theatre critic, then as a movie reviewer—and from there moved on to New York magazine and Vogue. Her most influential book is From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies (1974; revised and reissued in 1987). She co-hosted Turner Classic Movies' The Essentials with Robert Osborne in 2006 for one season.
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Leah Busque
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Leah Solivan, the founder of TaskRabbit, is an American entrepreneur.
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Kitty Joyner
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Kitty Wingfield Joyner was an American electrical engineer with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and then with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) upon its replacement of NACA in 1958. She was the first woman to graduate from the University of Virginia's engineering program in 1939, receiving the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award upon graduation. When she was hired by NACA the same year, she became the first woman engineer at the organization, eventually rising to the title of Branch Head and managing several of its wind tunnels. Her work contributed to research on aeronautics, supersonic flight, airfoils, and aircraft design standards.
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Katherine Emery
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Katherine Drewry Emery was an American stage and film actress.
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Patsy Ticer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Patricia Keyser Ticer, known as Patsy Ticer, was an American politician.
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Marjory Collins
- Occupations
- photographerphotojournalisteditorwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Marjory Collins was an American photojournalist. She is remembered for her coverage of the home front during World War II.
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Kristin Kuhns Alexandre
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Kristin Kuhns Alexandre was an American writer, journalist, author, screenwriter, and producer. She was a WGA screenwriter and executive producer for the action thriller, Dead Reckoning, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak.
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Anna Chao Pai
- Years
- 1935-.. (age 90)
- Occupations
- geneticist
- Biography
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Anna Chao Pai is an American geneticist and professor emerita at Montclair State University.
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Irene Beasley
- Occupations
- composersingerradio personality
- Biography
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Elizabeth Irene Beasley, known as the "long, tall gal from Dixie," was a singer and master of ceremonies best known for her work on old-time radio.
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Caroline Russell Compton
- Occupations
- painterartist
- Biography
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Caroline Russell Compton was a noted Mississippi artist. Her paintings are part of the permanent collection in the Mississippi Museum of Art.
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Lucy Winchester
- Biography
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Lucy Alexander Winchester is a Kentucky socialite and farmer who served as the 14th White House Social Secretary during the entirety of the Presidency of Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon.
