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Ashley Judd (Kentucky), known for her roles in movies such as Double Jeopardy and Kiss the Girls . |
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Rosemary Henderson , Leading Lady of the Ice Capades in 1956. |
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Kate Jackson (Mississippi), lead star in the television series Charlie's Angels . |
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Anne Elder (DePauw), appeared on "Laugh-In" & won 2 Emmy awards for script writing |
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Helen Wagner Willey (Monmouth), since 1956 has been known as Nancy Hughs, the matriarch of As The World Turns . |
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Jo Ann Woorley , actress, Laugh In |
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Jane Pauley (Indiana), host of Dateline NBC , co-host of the popular NBC morning show Today , and substitute news anchor of NBC Nightly News |
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Bonnie Bartlett (Northwestern), lead role on TV's St. Elsewhere |
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Jann Carl (Missouri), Entertainment Tonight news anchor. |
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Jo Ann Plug (Miami), starred in the film M.A.S.H. |
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Candace Bergen (Pennsylvania), star of Murphey Brown |
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Kelly Goldsmith (Duke), Cast Member on CBS's Survivor |
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Molly Stanton (UC Berkeley), portrays Charity Standish on the soap opera Passions |
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Amaya (UCLA), Cast member on MTV's Real World :Hawaii |
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Nancy O'Dell (Clemson), weekend anchor and weekday correspondent for NBC's entertainment news show, Access Hollywood |
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Jamie (Auburn), Cast member on MTV's Real World : San Diego |
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Barbara Feldon (Carnegie- Mellon), actress, Get Smart |
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Kendal (Iowa), Cast member on MTV's Road Rules : Campus Crawl and Inferno |
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Fashion, Architecture, Art |
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Kate Spade (Kansas), internationally renowned designer. Most famous for her handbags, she also makes luggage, glasses, shoes, paper and beauty products. |
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Carey Boone Nelson (Missouri), commissioned by governments of France and the United States to create a sculpture of General Lafayette for the U.S. Bicentennial celebration. |
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Laurie Hickson-Smith (Southern Methodist University) , interior designer, TLC's Trading Spaces |
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Geraldine Rasmussen (Miami), painter whose portraits of world leaders, scientists and composers are included in collections around the world. In addition, she is a writer and musician. |
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Frances Sutton Schmitz (Michigan), first woman architect registered in her state. |
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Business |
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Loretta McCarthy , vice president of industry and marketing and retail development for the American Express card. Currently vice president of marketing, operations of Oppenheimer Management Corp. |
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Ruth Leach Pollack , first woman vice president of IBM. |
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Law/Government |
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Susan Harrell Black , Florida's first woman federal judge. |
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Emma Fall Schofield , first woman judge in New England. |
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Lucy Webb Hayes (Ohio Wesleyan), wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes. (Her key is in the American History Museum in Washington, DC!) |
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Jane Swift (Trinity), became the youngest governor in 2001, governor of Massachusetts. |
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Lou Henry Hoover (Stanford), wife of President Hoover. |
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Barbara T. Eisenhower , Wife of Belgian Ambassador John Eisenhower, Daughter-in-law of President Eisenhower |
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Science |
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Edith Clarke , first woman to receive an electrical engineering degree from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. |
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Mareta West , first woman astrogeologist, made the map for lunar landing. |
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Sports |
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Patty Berg , champion golfer, 1946 U.S. Open winner. |
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Donna DeVarona , a two-time gold medalist in Olympic swimming, first woman sportscaster in network television, co-founder of Women's Sports Foundation, and first female sportscaster in network TV . |
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Leslie Bush , Olympic gold medalist in diving in 1964 |
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Doris Hart (Miami), won every major tennis tournament in the world, starting with Wimbledon in 1951. |
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Other |
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Jean Bartel , former Miss America 1943 |
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Phyllis McGinley , past recipient of the Pulitzer Prize |
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Julia Ward Howe , author of Battle Hymn of the Republic |
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