Columbia Alumni Medalists 2011 - GG Michelson '47LAW
Channel: Columbia Alumni
Date: 07/01/2013

G.G. Michelson ’47LAW has been engaged in Columbia Law School and Columbia University activities for over fifty years. She continues
to serve as member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Visitors at the Law School and as a member of the Dean’s Council. She has also served on the Board of Overseers at Columbia Business School and was a member of the Board of Trustees, from which she retired as Chair Emerita. She received the James Kent Award, the Wein Award, and the Frederick A. Barnard Award from Barnard College. G.G. spent her professional career in various executive positions at Macy’s, retiring in 1992 but continuing to serve the company as Senior Advisor and Member of the Board of Directors. She has been involved with numerous educational and not-for-profit organizations, including serving as a Trustee of Spelman College and Rand Graduate School. She was a member of the Financial Control Board and
Deputy Chair of the N.Y. Federal Reserve Board. She received her B.A. from Pennsylvania State University in 1945. Her late husband Horace Michelson was a Columbia Law School classmate; they married while attending the Law School.