List of Hollins University people

The following is a list of individuals associated with Hollins University through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.

Notable alumni

Activism

• Ellen Malcolm, Founder of EMILY's List, 1969^[1]
• Emily Wheat Maynard, jewelry designer and founder of Elva Fields Jewelry, 2000^[1]

Arts

• Brandy S. Culp, curator of the Historic Charleston Foundation's collection of fine and decorative arts, 1998^[1]
• Courtney Hamill, ceramicist, owner of Honeycomb Studio, 2005
• Sally Mann, photographer and writer, shortlisted for 2015 National Book Award, 1974, M.A. 1975^[1]

Authors ^[2]

• Madison Smartt Bell, author of Ten Indians, M.A. 1981
• Jenny Boully, author of five books, associate professor of creative writing, Columbia College Chicago, 1998, M.A. 1999
• Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon, 1932
• Amanda Cockrell, children's book author, 1969, M.A. 1988
• Kiran Desai, author and recipient of the Man Booker Prize in 2006, M.A. 1994^[1]
• Tony D'Souza, author of Whiteman, M.A. 1998
• Cathryn Hankla, American poet, 1980, M.A. 1982
• Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, author of A Woman Of Independent Means, B.A. 1960
• Jill McCorkle, author, 1981
• Ethel Morgan Smith, author of From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College, 1999
• Lee Smith, author and winner of many awards including the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and two O. Henry Awards, 1967^[1]
• Edna Henry Lee Turpin, American author of children's books, ALND 1887

Business

• Holly Hendrix, financial advisor, named to the Financial Times of London's Top 400 Advisors for 2015,^[3] 1975
• Caroline Hipple, former executive vice president of This End Up and president of Storehouse Furniture, 1977
• Shannon Ravenel, cofounder of Algonquin Press, 1960
• Alexandra Trower, executive vice president of global communications at Estee Lauder, recipient of the International Women's Media Foundation's Corporate Leadership Award, 1986^[1]

Government and Public Service

• Jennifer Boysko, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 2016
• Betsy Brooks Carr, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1968^[1]
• Elizabeth Brownlee Kolmstetter, one of the first federal employees tapped to create the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the aftermath of 9/11, 1985^[1]
• Pamela Jo Howell Slutz, career diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Burundi and Mogolia, 1970
• Flo Neher Traywick, first woman in Virginia to be nominated by either party to run for Congress (House of Representatives)-Sixth Congressional District, 1945
• Elizabeth Fentress Goodwin, cofounder, National Down Syndrome Society, 1969

Higher Education

• Linda Koch Lorimer, president, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College; vice president for global and strategic initiatives, Yale University, 1974

Law

• Tiffany M. Graves, executive director, Mississippi Access to Justice Commission, 1997^[1]
• Callie V. Granade, district judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, 1972

Journalism

• Suzanne Allen, Emmy Award-winning senior coordinating producer for CBS' 48_Hours_(TV_series), 1969
• Ann Compton, ABC News White House correspondent, 1969
• M. L. Flynn, senior producer, editorial planning, NBC Nightly News, 1972
• Mary Garber, first woman sportswriter in the Atlantic Coast Conference, 1938
• Ruth Hale, journalist, feminist, and founder of the Lucy Stone League
• M. Carrie Allan, Washington Post columnist, nominated for the James Beard Award in the journalism category for In New Orleans, Terrific Cocktails Never Went out of Fashion, 1998, M.A. 1999
• Elizabeth Valk Long, first woman publisher of Time Inc., 1972

Media and Entertainment

• George Butler, documentary filmmaker and writer, M.A. 1968
• Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, owner and CEO of the Gotham Group, dubbed one of Hollywood's Most Powerful Women, 1984
• Beth Macy, author, whose book Factory Man was a New York Times best seller and optioned by Playtone for an HBO mini series, M.A. 1998
• Donna Richardson, fitness and aerobics instructor, author and television sports commentator, ALND 1984
• Claire Sanders Swift, Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist and prominent national media consultant, 1985
• Ellen Stokes, Emmy nominated and CableACE Award winning producer and director, 1972
• Eleanor D. Wilson, actress and Tony Award nominee, 1930
• Danielle D. Rollins, Gracious Living & Stylish Entertaining™ lifestyle expert, author of Soiree: Entertaining with Style, 1990
• Sadie Tillery, director of programming, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, 2005
• Veronica Votypka, co-executive producer for Harpo Studios/Oprah Winfrey Network, 1999^[1]

Pulitzer Prize Winners

• Mary Wells Ashworth, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, 1924
• Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, 1967, M.A. 1968^[1]
• Henry S. Taylor, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, M.A. 1966
• Natasha Trethewey, American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2007, United States Poet Laureate, M.A. 1991^[1]

Science and Medicine

• Jennifer Berman, pioneer in the field of female urology and female sexual medicine, 1986
• Mary E. Hatten, Frederick P. Rose Professor and head of Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, Rockefeller University, 1971

Sports

• Carol Semple Thompson, amateur golf champion, elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame, 1970^[1]
• Charlotte Fox, first woman to have climbed three of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks, 1979

References

1. "Women Who Are Going Places" (PDF). Hollins University. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
2. "Authors Archive"
3. "FT 400 Top Financial Advisors", "Financial Times", 25 March 2015