
Name |
Class Year |
Notes |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | 1832 (Troy Female Seminary) |
Women’s rights activist |
| Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage | 1847 (Troy Female Seminary) |
Philanthropist, founded Russell Sage College for women in 1916 |
| Mary Arthur | 1857 (Troy Female Seminary) |
Sister of President Chester Arthur, served as First Lady during his term |
| Mrs. Marshall Field (Nancy Scott) | 1857 (Troy Female Seminary) |
Philanthropist |
| Mrs. Cyrus McCormick (Nettie Fowler) | 1853 (Troy Female Seminary) |
Philanthropist |
| Lily Price | 1872 | Dutchess of Marlborough (later Lady Beresford) |
| Clementine Miller Tangeman | ’23 | Philanthropist |
| Helen Snell Cheel | ’23 | Philanthropist |
| Jane Seddon Willson | ’41 | Pecan farmer, statewide business leader in Georgia, first female board member of Bell South |
| Hope McEldowney Kobak | ’40 | President/co-founder, Kirkus Reviews |
| Sue McKee Wierengo | ’49 | Founder, Michigan Hospice |
| Polly Ormsby Longsworth | ’51 | Emily Dickinson scholar, biographer Recipient of Amherst College's Medal for Eminent Service |
| Jean Bernhard Buttner | ’53 | CEO, Valueline, investment advisory company |
| Jane Fonda | ’55 | Academy Award-winning actor, citizen activist, philanthropist |
| Sara Lubin Schupf | ’58 | Philanthropist, former spokesperson for the Sara Lee Baking Company |
| Florence Habiby Browne | ’58 | Founder/executive director of the Arab-American Family Support Center in NYC |
| Kendra Stearns O’Donnell | ’60 | Scholar and first female head of school of Phillips Exeter Academy |
| Jameson Adkins Baxter | ’61 | Investment banker, served concurrently as Board president for Mount Holyoke College and Emma Willard School |
| Michael Gage | ’61 | Administrative judge in charge of the 47 family courts in New York City |
| Mary Lake Polan | ’61 | First female chair of clinical department at Stanford University Medical School |
| Jennifer von Mayrhauser Cottrell | ’65 | Emmy-nominated costume designer who has received an Obie for Sustained Excellence |
| Elizabeth L. Colton | ’66 | Founder/executive director, International Museum of Women, San Francisco |
| Jane Wales | ’66 | International security policy expert |
| Hannah Chase Kinney | ’67 | Groundbreaking researcher on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome |
| Laurie Burt | ’67 | One of the nation’s leading environmental attorneys |
| Ruth Scovill | ’68 | Digital production technology, feature film industry, Oscar winner |
| Antonia Stolper | ’75 | International attorney, political activist |
| Robin Bell | ’76 | Research geologist |
| Jyoti Srivastava | ’77 | Pioneer, restorative dentistry, associate professor at New York University School of Dentistry |
| Coleman Hough | ’78 | Screenwriter, playwright |
| Erin Crotty | '84 | First female Commissioner of Environmental Conservation for New York State |
| Kirsten Rutnik Gillibrand | ’84 | U.S. Representative, D-Greenport, NY U.S. Senator |
