# List of Goucher College people

Goucher College is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland. It was originally established in 1885 as a women's college and became coeducational in 1986.
The following is an incomplete list of prominent Goucher people.

## Notable alumni
### Law, government, and public affairs

* Sally Brice-O'Hara (1974), Vice Admiral and Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard
* Joan Claybrook (1959), president of Public Citizen, think tank founded by Ralph Nader
* Rita C. Davidson (1948), first woman on the Maryland Court of Appeals
* Ellen Lipton Hollander (1971), federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
* Sarah T. Hughes (1917), federal judge who administered the presidential oath of office to Lyndon B. Johnson following the assassination of John F. Kennedy
* Margaret G. Kibben, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret.), Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, Chaplain of the United States Marine Corps
* Phyllis A. Kravitch (1941), federal judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
* Amy Kuhn, state representative in Maine
* Laurie McKinnon, (1982) Associate Justice of the Montana Supreme Court
* Johnny Olszewski (2004), U.S. Representative from Maryland's 2nd congressional district and former Baltimore County Executive
* Kevin B. Quinn (2001), Chief Executive Officer and Administrator of the Maryland Transit Administration
* A. Margaret Russanowska (1912), social worker, US Department of Labor, film censor, Red Cross worker
* Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre (1908), daughter of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and political activist
* Paula Stern (1967), former chairwoman of the United States International Trade Commission
* Lucé Vela (1982), former First Lady of Puerto Rico

### Literature and journalism

* Ellen Bass (1968), poet
* Emily Newell Blair, writer, feminist, and co-founder of the League of Women Voters
* Sheri Booker author and poet
* Andrew Ervin (1993), novelist and critic
* Margaret Fishback (1921), author and poet
* Jonah Goldberg (1991), author and conservative commentator
* Anne Lamott (attended for two years), memoirist
* Laura Amy Schlitz (1977), author, Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor winner
* Darcey Steinke (1985), author and university lecturer
* Eleanor Wilner (1959), poet, 1991 MacArthur Fellow

### Scientists, physicians, psychologists, mathematicians, and researchers

* Beatrice Aitchison (1928), mathematician and transportation economist
* Hattie Alexander (1923), pediatrician and microbiologist
* Anne Bahlke (1926), physician, medical research, state public health official
* Ruth Bleier (1945), neurophysiologist, feminist scholar
* Teresa Cohen (1912), mathematician
* Nan Dieter-Conklin (1948), radio astronomer
* Helen Dodson Price (1927), astronomer, winner of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy
* Margaret Irving Handy (1911), pediatrician
* Helen C. Harrison (1931), winner of the John Howland Award and the E. Mead Johnson Award for work in pediatrics
* Ethel Browne Harvey, embryologist
* Marjorie G. Horning, biochemist and pharmacologist
* Georgeanna Seegar Jones (1932), reproductive endocrinologist
* Kate Breckenridge Karpeles (1909), United States Army doctor during World War I
* Harriet H. Malitson (1948), astronomer at Goddard Space Flight Center
* Grace Manson, psychologist
* Margaret McFarland (1927), psychologist and consultant to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
* Florence Marie Mears (1917), mathematician
* Bessie Moses (1915), gynecologist and obstetrician
* Florence B. Seibert (1918), biochemist
* Lydia Villa-Komaroff, molecular biologist
* Jean Worthley (1944), naturalist

### Academics and scholars

* Elizabeth Nesbitt (1897 – 1977), children's librarian and a library science educator
* Shirley Montag Almon (1956), economist
* Constance Prem Nath Dass (1911), first Indian president of Isabella Thoburn College
* Alice Deal (1899) first female school principal in the District of Columbia
* Karen S. Haynes (1968), president of California State University, San Marcos
* Alice Kessler-Harris (1961), historian and professor
* Amy Hewes (1897), Economist and professor at Mount Holyoke College
* Melissa Klapper (1995), historian and storyteller
* Stephen Kimber, Canadian journalist and professor at University of King's College
* Joan Maling, linguist and professor
* Nancy Mowll Mathews (1968), art historian
* Sara Haardt Mencken (1920), professor of English literature, wife of H. L. Mencken
* Edith Philips (1913), educator and writer, 1928 Guggenheim Fellow
* Hortense Powdermaker (1919), anthropologist
* Elizabeth Barrows Ussher, Christian missionary and witness to the Armenian genocide
* Anna Crone, linguist and literary theorist

### Arts and entertainment

* Nan Agle, children's books author
* Clara Beranger (1907), screenwriter, married to William C. DeMille
* Mildred Dunnock (1922), Oscar-nominated film and stage actress
* Alison Fanelli (2001), actress starring as Ellen on The Adventures of Pete & Pete
* Dustin Hodge, producer and writer
* Jesse J. Holland (2012), journalist, author, and guest host on C-SPAN's Washington Journal.
* Anne Hummert (née. Schumacher) (1925), creator of leading radio soap operas during the 1930s and '40s
* Christine Jowers (1985), choreographer, producer, and dance critic
* Nancy Koenigsberg (B.A. degree 1949), American sculptor and textile artist
* Jane Levy (attended for a semester), actress
* Selma L. Oppenheimer, Baltimore-based artist
* Mary Vivian Pearce, actress who worked with film director John Waters, considered one of the Dreamlanders
* Gabby Rivera (2004), author of fiction and graphic novels.
* Ruddy Roye (1998), documentary photographer and Time magazine's pick for Instagram Photographer of 2016
* Rosalind Solomon (1951), artist and photographer

### Business

* Katherine August-deWilde, former president of First Republic Bank from 2007 to 2015 and current vice chair
* Sally Buck, partial owner of the Major League Baseball team Philadelphia Phillies
* Sherry Cooper (1972), former chief economist at BMO Financial Group
* Olive Dennis (1908), civil engineer for B&O Railroad, first female member of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association
* Bradford Shellhammer (1998), eBay executive, co-founder of Fab.com, Bezar, and Queerty
* Elsie Shutt, one of the first women to start a software company in the United States

### Sports

* Susan Devlin (1953), American-Irish badminton champion
* Judy Devlin Hashman (1958), ten-time All-England badminton singles champion
* Matthew Forgues, racewalker
* Emily Kagan, American mixed martial artist
* Nathan Chen (post-baccalaureate premedical class of 2025), two-time Olympic gold medalist in figure skating.

## Notable faculty

* Vasily Aksyonov, Soviet-Russian novelist
* Flo Ayres, radio actress
* Kaushik Bagchi, Indian historian
* Jean H. Baker, historian
* Robert M. Beachy, historian
* Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, mathematician
* Chrystelle Trump Bond, dancer, choreographer and dance historian
* Alice Braunlich, classical philologist
* Neil H. Buchanan, economist and legal scholar
* George Delahunty, physiologist and endocrinologist
* Rhoda Dorsey, historian
* Janet Dudley-Eshbach, academic administrator
* Andrew Ervin, author, critic and, editor
* Harriet Campbell Foss, painter
* Thomas French, journalist
* Marianne Githens, political scientist, author, and feminist
* Margret Grebowicz, Polish philosopher, author, and jazz vocalist
* Pamela Haag author, historian
* Mildred Harnack, American-German historian, translator, and German Resistance fighter in Nazi Germany
* Elaine Ryan Hedges, writer and feminist
* Clark S. Hobbs, Vice President
* Dustin Hodge, producer and writer
* Jesse J. Holland, journalist and author
* Ailish Hopper, poet, writer, and teacher
* Nancy Hubbard, author and public relations consultant
* Harry Mortimer Hubbell, classicist
* Julie Roy Jeffrey, historian
* Nina Kasniunas, political scientist and writer
* Elaine Koppelman, mathematician
* Florence Lewis, mathematician and astronomer
* Robert Hall Lewis, composer
* Laura Lippman, author
* Oliver W. F. Lodge, British author and poet
* William Harding Longley, botanist
* Suzannah Lessard, author
* Nina Marković, Croatian-American physicist
* Elizabeth Stoffregen May, economist and women's education advocate
* Maynard Mayo Metcalf, biologist
* Howard Norman, writer and educator
* Edith Philips, writer and French literary academic
* Richard Pringle, psychologist
* Victor Ricciardi, professor of business and author
* Alice S. Rossi, sociologist and feminist
* Mike Sager, journalist and author
* Forrest Shreve, botanist
* Martha Siegel, mathematician and educator
* Robert Slocum, botanist and biologist
* Eleanor Patterson Spencer, art historian
* Elizabeth Spires, poet
* Dorothy Stimson, historian of science
* Shira Tarrant, writer
* Ruth Dogget Terzaghi, geologist
* Bill Thomas, journalist
* Michelle Tokarczyk, author, poet, and literary critic
* Meline Toumani author and journalist
* Sanford J. Ungar, journalist and academic administrator
* Robert S. Welch, academic administrator
* Juliette Wells, author and editor
* Lilian Welsh, physician, educator, suffragist, and advocate for women's health
* Mary Wilhelmine Williams, historian
* Ola Elizabeth Winslow, historian, biographer, and educator
* Jill Zimmerman, computer scientist
* Mary Kay Zuravleff, writer and novelist
* David Zurawik, journalist, author, and media critic

## Presidents

Since its founding, Goucher has had a total of 18 presidents, five of whom were acting. The college's longest-serving president was Rhoda Dorsey, who held the position for 20 years.
| S. No. | Name | Term |
| 1. | William Hersey Hopkins | 1886–1890 |
| 2. | John Goucher | 1890–1908 |
| 3. | Eugene Allen Noble | 1908–1911 |
| * | John Blackford Van Meter | 1911–1913 |
| 4. | William Westley Guth | 1913–1929 |
| * | Hans Froelicher | 1929–1930 |
| * | Dorothy Stimson | 1930 |
| 5. | David Allan Robertson | 1930–1948 |
| 6. | Otto Kraushaar | 1948–1967 |
| 7. | Marvin Banks Perry Jr. | 1967–1973 |
| * | Rhoda Dorsey | 1973–1974 |
| 8. | Rhoda Dorsey | 1974–1994 |
| 9. | Judy Jolley Mohraz | 1994–2000 |
| * | Robert S. Welch | 2000–2001 |
| 10. | Sanford J. Ungar | 2001–2014 |
| 11. | José Antonio Bowen | 2014–2019 |
| * | Bryan Coker | 2019–2019 |
| 12. | Kent Devereaux | 2019–present |