# List of Agnes Scott College alumnae

Agnes Scott College is a women's college in Decatur, Georgia. It was known as the Decatur Female Seminary from 1889 to 1890 and the Agnes Scott Institute from 1890 to 1906.

## Academia

* Andrea Abrams, anthropologist and associate professor at Centre College
* Martha Bailey, 1997, professor of economics and scholar of how access to contraception has shaped women's lives
* Anita Barbee,1982, psychologist and professor & Distinguished University Scholar at the University of Louisville's Kent School of Social Work
* Tommie Dora Barker, 1909, public librarian and founding dean of Emory Library School
* Marilyn Breen, 1966, professor of mathematics at the University of Oklahoma
* Mary Brown Bullock, 1966, seventh president of Agnes Scott College and executive vice chancellor of Duke Kunshan University
* Chesya Burke, 2013, author of comic books and speculative fiction and assistant professor of English and U.S. Literatures and is the director of Africana Studies at Stetson University
* Sue Jinks-Robertson, 1977, professor of genetics and microbiology
* Susan M. Phillips, 1967, economist, member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and dean of the George Washington University School of Business
* Loretta Ross, 2007, academic, feminist, and activist who advocates for reproductive justice
* Cornelia Strong, 1901, professor, mathematician, and astronomer
* Anna Irwin Young, 1910, professor of mathematics, physics, and astronomy

## Art and architecture

* Jordan Casteel, 2011, award-winning figure painter
* Ipek Duben, 1963, contemporary visual artist
* Margot Gayle, 1931, historic preservationist and author who helped save the Victorian cast-iron architecture in New York City's SoHo district
* Anna Colquitt Hunter, Historic Savannah Foundation founder
* Mary E. Hutchinson, non-degreed, artist
* Leila Ross Wilburn, 1904, architect

## Business

* Kay Krill, 1977, president and chief executive officer of ANN INC., parent company of Ann Taylor and LOFT

## Entertainment

* Michelle Malone, 1990, singer-songwriter and guitarist
* Joanna Moore, non-degreed, actress and mother of Tatum O'Neal
* Jennifer Nettles, 1997, lead singer of the AMA and Grammy award-winning country music band Sugarland
* Saycon Sengbloh, 2000, actress and singer
* Amira Unplugged, 2019, singer and rapper

## Law

* Jean H. Toal, 1965, Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court

## Literature

* Kimberly Belle, novelist
* Chesya Burke, 2013, author of comic books and speculative fiction and assistant professor of English and U.S. Literatures and is the director of Africana Studies at Stetson University
* Mary Norton Kratt, 1958, writer of Charlotte history and Southern novels
* Catherine Marshall, 1936, author of the novel Christy
* Marsha Norman, 1969, playwright
* Agnes White Sanford, 1919, author of The Healing Light

## Politics

* Teri Anulewicz, 1998, Georgia State Representative
* Catherine Fleming Bruce, 1984, author, activist, and Director of Operations at Richland County Democratic Party
* Constance Curry, 1955, civil rights activist
* Goudyloch E. Dyer, 1938, Illinois state representative
* Caroline Frederick, 1928, South Carolina House of Representatives
* Katherine Harris, 1979, U.S. House of Representatives, Secretary of State of Florida, and Florida Senate
* Bertha "B" Holt, 1938, former North Carolina State Representative and children's rights advocate
* Brownie Ledbetter, political activist, social justice crusader, and lobbyist who was involved in the civil rights, feminist, labor, and environmental movements in Arkansas
* Rosalind McGee, non-degreed, Utah House of Representatives
* Frances Freeborn Pauley, 1927, civil rights activist
* Martha Priscilla Shaw, non-degreed, mayor of Sumter, South Carolina (1952–1956), first female mayor in South Carolina
* Marjorie R. Turnbull, non-degreed, Florida House of Representatives

## Religion

* Ivylyn Girardeau, 1922, medical missionary in India and Pakistan
* Rachel Henderlite, 1928, the first woman to be ordained a pastor of the Presbyterian Church in the United States

## Science and medicine

* Frances Anderson, pioneer of art therapy
* Ivylyn Girardeau, 1922, medical missionary in India and Pakistan
* Lucia Murchison, 1922, social worker, club woman, and president of the South Carolina Public Health Association
* Willie W. Smith, 1927, physiologist who specialized in radiobiology and researcher with the National Institutes of Health
* Patricia Ann Webb, 1945, microbiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health

## Sports

* Wasfia Nazreen, 2006, mountaineer