18 Notable alumni of
Texas Woman's University
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Texas Woman's University is 2230th in the world, 780th in North America, and 736th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from Texas Woman's 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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Anne Rice
- Occupations
- novelistwriterscreenwriter
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Anne Rice was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature. She was best known for her series of novels The Vampire Chronicles. The first book became the subject of a film adaptation—Interview with the Vampire (1994).
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Lupe Ontiveros
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- film actortelevision actoractorsocial workervoice actor
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Guadalupe Ontiveros was an American actress best known for portraying Rosalita in The Goonies, and Yolanda Saldívar in the film Selena. She acted in numerous films and television shows. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on Desperate Housewives and received critical acclaim for her role in Chuck & Buck, for which she won the National Board of Review award for Best Supporting Actress, and was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
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Jill Marie Jones
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- film actortelevision actor
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Jill Marie Jones is an American actress and former professional dancer and cheerleader. Jones is best known for her role as Antoinette "Toni" Childs-Garrett on the UPN comedy series, Girlfriends (2000–2006). Jones has appeared in a number of films, and had the recurring role as Cynthia Irving on the Fox supernatural series, Sleepy Hollow (2013–15). From 2015 to 2016, she starred as Amanda Fisher in the Starz horror-comedy series, Ash vs Evil Dead.
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Carly Patterson
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- singerartistic gymnastmusician
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Carly Rae Patterson is an American singer, songwriter and former artistic gymnast. She was the all-around champion at the 2004 Olympics, the first all-around champion for the United States at a non-boycotted Olympics, and is a member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Patterson frequently joins radio segments on 1310 AM and 96.7 FM The Ticket in Dallas Fort-Worth.
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Norma Crane
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Norma Crane was an American actress of stage, film, and television best known for her role as Golde in the 1971 film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof. She also starred in They Call Me Mister Tibbs! and Penelope. Crane was born in New York City, but raised in El Paso, Texas.
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Sylvia Garcia
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- politician
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Sylvia Rodriguez Garcia is an American lawyer and politician who has been serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 29th congressional district since 2019. Her district covers much of eastern Houston. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented the 6th district in the Texas Senate.
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Millie Hughes-Fulford
- Enrolled in Texas Woman's University
- In 1972 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- chemistastronaut
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Millie Elizabeth Hughes-Fulford was an American medical investigator, molecular biologist, and NASA payload specialist who flew aboard the NASA Space Shuttle Columbia in June 1991.
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Shirley Cothran
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- modelbeauty pageant contestantmotivational speaker
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Shirley Cothran Barret is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Texas.
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Donna Campbell
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- ophthalmologistpoliticianphysician
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Donna Sue Campbell is an American politician and physician who is the 25th District member of the Texas Senate. On July 31, 2012, she became the first person in Texas history to defeat an incumbent Republican senator, Jeff Wentworth of San Antonio, in a primary election.
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Vonette Zachary Bright
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Vonette Zachary Bright was an American author, speaker, and the co-founder of Cru.
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Dee Ann McWilliams
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United States - Occupations
- military officer
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Dee Ann McWilliams is a retired United States Army major general. McWilliams is past President of the Women in Service for America Memorial Foundation. She took her commission in 1974 in the Women's Army Corps and was assigned to the Adjutant General Corps. In over 29 years with the army, she held a variety of Human Relations positions, commanding four companies, a training battalion, and a personnel brigade. She also taught national strategic studies and leadership, and served as an Equal Opportunity Officer.
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Elizabeth Ann Nalley
- Enrolled in Texas Woman's University
- In 1975 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Elizabeth Ann Nalley is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma.
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Juan L. Maldonado
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- academic
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Juan Leandro Maldonado was a higher education administrator who served as the sixth president of Laredo Community College (since named Laredo College) in Laredo in Webb County in South Texas, USA. In August 2007, upon the sudden retirement of Ramón H. Dovalina, Maldonado assumed the LCC presidency. Maldonado retired from LCC effective August 1, 2016.
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Mary Saunders
- Occupations
- military personnel
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Mary L. Saunders is a retired Major General from the United States Air Force. She was named to the Texas Women's Hall of Fame in 2012.
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Elma González
- Occupations
- biologist
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Elma L. González is a Mexican-born American plant cell biologist. She is Professor Emerita of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1974, she was appointed professor of cell and molecular biology at the University of California, Los Angeles. At the time, she was the only Mexican American woman scientist in the University of California system faculty. Professor Martha Zúñiga at the University of California, Santa Cruz, appointed in 1990, was the second. In 2004, the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science recognized González with a Distinguished Scientist Award.
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Alma Dawson
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- librarianteacher
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Alma Dawson is an American scholar of librarianship. She retired as Russell B. Long Professor at the School of Library & Information Science, Louisiana State University in 2014 and was awarded Emeritus status in 2015. In 2019 Dr. Dawson was honored with the Essae Martha Culver Distinguished Service Award from the Louisiana Library Association which honors a librarian whose professional service and achievements, whose leadership in Louisiana association work, and whose lifetime accomplishments in a field of librarianship within the state merit recognition of particular value to Louisiana librarianship.
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Beth Darnall
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- United States
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Beth Darnall is American scientist, pain psychologist, author, and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine where she directs the Stanford Pain Relief Innovations Lab. From 2005 to 2012, Darnall was an assistant professor and associate professor at Oregon Health & Science University.
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Jean Apgar
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- chemistbiochemist
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Barbara Jean Francis Apgar is an American biochemist. She worked on important research on ribonucleic acids (RNA), and on zinc deficiency as a risk factor in reproduction. She won the Federal Woman's Award in 1970, and the Arthur S. Flemming Award in 1973.
