Alumnae Award Recipients

2009   Marie Arana

Award-Winning Author

Journalist

 

2008   Teresa Woodruff

Professor, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University

Professor, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Director of the Institute of Women's Health Research, Northwestern University

 

2007   Nancy Gustafson

Opera Singer

Artist-in-Residence, Northwestern University

 

2006   Christine Brennan

Sports Writer

Author

 

2005   Carole Segal

Co-founder, Crate & Barrel

Founder, Foodstuffs

 

2004   Martha Lavey

Artistic Director, Steppenwolf Theatre Company

 

2003   Lois Weisberg

Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs

 

2002  Laura Washington

Print and Broadcast Journalist

 

2001   Barbara Gaines

Founder and Artistic Director, Chicago Shakespeare Theater

 

2000   Augusta Reed Thomas

Composer-in-Residence, Chicago Symphony

 

1999   Mary Zimmerman

Director

Playwright

MacArthur Genius Grant Award Recipient

 

1998   The Founding Members and Original Professors of the Northwestern Alumnae Continuing Education Program

 

1997   Grace Bumbry

Opera Star

 

1996   Geneva Overholser

Newspaper Executive, The Washington Post

 

1995   Jeanette Wagner

President and CEO, Estee Lauder International

 

1994   Lynn Nesbit

Partner, Janklow & Nesbit

Literary Agent, Janklow & Nesbit

 

1993   Phyllis Elliott Oakley

State Department Spokesperson

 

1992   Sondra Gair

Public Radio Host

 

1990   Nancy Dussault

Actress

Singer

Talk Show Host

 

1989   Sherry Lansing

Hollywood Film Producer

 

1988   Wendy Lee Gramm

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair

 

1987   Neena Schwartz

Deering Professor of Neurobiology and Physiology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University

 

1986   Lois Wille

Pulitzer Prize Winner

Journalist

 

1985   Barbara Uehling

Chancellor, University of Missouri

 

1984   Maria Comnineau

Civil Engineer

 

1983   Mable Smythe

Ambassador

Educator

Author

Lecturer

 

1982   Ardis Krainik

Director, Lyric Opera of Chicago

 

1981   Georgie Anne Geyer

Journalist

Author

Columnist

 

1980   Patricia Neal

Actress

 

1979   Olga Jonnasson

Physician, Cook County Hospital Chief of Surgery

 

1978   Carole Kamin Bellows

Attorney

President, Illinois Bar Association

 

1977   Joan Beck

Journalist

Columnist

 

1976   Lee Phillip

Television Personality

 

Updated January 7, 2010.