# List of Scripps College people

Scripps College is a private liberal arts women's college in Claremont, California. It was founded in 1926 as a member of the Claremont Colleges, and is widely regarded as the most prestigious women's college in the Western United States. Many notable individuals have been affiliated with the college as graduates, non-graduating attendees, faculty, staff, or administrators.
Scripps has graduated 94 classes of students. As of the fall 2019 semester, the college enrolls approximately 1,110 students.
As of the fall 2019 semester, Scripps employs 136 faculty members. The college has had nine official presidents and several interim presidents, including the current interim president, Amy Marcus-Newhall.

## Notable alumnae

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Anne Hopkins Aitken | 1932 | Zen Buddhist in the Harada-Yasutani lineage |
| Helene Mayer | Exchange student 1932–1934 | Olympic gold medalist fencer who competed for Nazi Germany despite being Jewish |
| Nancy Neighbor Russell | 1953 | Founder, Friends of the Columbia Gorge |
| Molly Ivins | Attended 1962–1963 | Newspaper columnist |
| Beth Nolan | 1973 | White House Counsel for Bill Clinton |
| Harriet Doerr | Attended 1975–1976 | Novelist |
| Alison Saar | 1978 | Sculptor and installation artist known for work on black identity |
| Elizabeth Turk | 1983 | Sculpture artist |
| Merodie A. Hancock | 1987 | Academic and president of Thomas Edison State University |
| Gabby Giffords | 1993 | Democratic U.S. Representative for Arizona's 8th district, gun control advocate |

## Notable faculty

| Name | Active tenure | Notability |
| Hartley Burr Alexander | 1927–1939 | Philosopher, writer, educator, scholar, poet, and iconographer |
| Millard Sheets | 1932–1955 | Artist and designer |
| Albert Stewart | 1939–1965 | Sculptor |
| Lee Pattison | 1941–1962 | Concert pianist, composer, arranger, opera director |
| Michael S. Roth | 1983–2000 | Historian, university administrator, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair, President of Wesleyan University |
| Hao Huang (pianist) | 1994–present | Concert pianist, composer, playwright, Fulbright Scholar to Hungary, Bessie Bartlett Frankel Chair |
| Ken Gonzales-Day | 1995–present | Conceptual artist and historian, a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fletcher Jones Chair |
| David Lloyd (academic) | 1996-2004 | Poet and professor of English and Humanities |
| Juliet Koss | 2000–present | Art historian |
| Myriam J. A. Chancy | 2008–present | Haitian-Canadian-American writer, fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair |
| Martha Gonzalez (musician) | 2012–present | Chicana artivista (artist/activist) musician, feminist music theorist |
| Vanessa C. Tyson | 2015–present | Political scientist and politician |

## Presidents of Scripps College

| # | Name | Tenure | Academic expertise |
| 1 | Ernest Jaqua | 1926–1942 | Theology |
| – | Mary Kimberly Shirk | 1942–1944 | |
| 2 | Frederick Hard | 1944–1964 | |
| 3 | Mark Curtis | 1964–1976 | |
| 4 | John H. Chandler | 1976–1989 | |
| 5 | E. Howard Brooks | 1989–1990 | |
| 6 | Nancy Y. Bekavac | 1990–2007 | |
| 7 | Frederick Weis | 2007–2009 | |
| 8 | Lori Bettison-Varga | 2009–2015 | Geology |
| – | Amy Marcus-Newhall | 2015–2016 | |
| 9 | Lara Tiedens | 2016–2020 | |
| – | Amy Marcus-Newhall | 2020–2021 | |
| 10 | Susan Keen | 2021-2022 | |
| 11 | Amy Marcus-Newhall | 2022-Present | |
Key :
| – | Denotes interim president |