Penn's Women Trustees

compiled and edited by Mark Frazier Lloyd
July 2001

Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, 1971-91 (fourth woman Term Trustee; first woman Life/Charter Trustee; third woman Emeritus Trustee; second woman Trustee to serve on the Executive Committee) Ione Apfelbaum Strauss, 1972-75 (first woman Trustee to represent the General Alumni Society) Margaret Elizabeth Redfield Mainwaring, 1973-88 (first woman Alumni Trustee; elected in 1978 as sixth woman Term Trustee; second woman Emeritus Trustee; third woman Trustee to serve on the Executive Committee; elected in 1984 as first woman Trustee to serve as Vice Chair of the Trustees)

Jacqueline G. Wexler, 1971

• Gloria Twine Chisum, 1974-84 and 1986-1991 (fifth woman Term Trustee; third woman Charter Trustee; fifth woman Emeritus Trustee; fifth woman Trustee to serve on the Executive Committee; second woman Trustee to be elected Vice Chair of the Trustees)

• Laureine Knight, 1975-77 (first woman Undergraduate Young Alumni Trustee)

• Ann Elizabeth Kelley, 1978-81 (second woman Undergraduate Young Alumni Trustee)

• Nina Ellen Robinson Vitow, 1978-81 (first woman Graduate Young Alumni Trustee)

• Sara Spedden Senior, 1980-83 and 1989-93 (sixth woman Alumni Trustee; fourth woman Trustee on the Executive Committee)

• Leonore Annenberg, 1982-88 (seventh woman Term Trustee; elected in 1987 as second woman Life / Charter Trustee; elected in 1988 as first woman Emeritus Trustee)

• Susan Williams Catherwood, 1982-present (eighth woman Term Trustee; elected in 1992 as fourth woman Charter Trustee; elected in June 1984 as sixth woman to serve on the Executive Committee; elected in June 1992 as third woman to serve as Vice Chair of the Trustees)

• Linda Camille White Hall, 1983-86 (first woman Recently Graduated Alumni Trustee)

• Constance Elaine Clayton, 1984-89 (ninth woman Term Trustee)

• Marlene Sue Arnold, 1987-90 (second woman Recently Graduated Alumni Trustee)

• Regina Kutin Cohen, 1988-90 (third woman Recently Graduated Alumni Trustee)

• Carol Blum Einiger, 1989-99 (tenth woman Term Trustee)

• Natalie Iris Salkind Koether, 1989-present (eleventh woman Term Trustee; elected in June 1999 as the fifth woman Charter Trustee; elected in June 1992 as the seventh woman Trustee to serve on the Executive Committee)

• Sandra Ann DiGioia Williamson, 1990-94 (tenth Alumni Trustee)

• Adele Kaplan Schaeffer, 1990-2000 (twelfth woman Term Trustee; fourth woman Emeritus Trustee)

• Elsie Sterling Howard, 1991-2000 (eleventh Alumni Trustee; elected in June 1995 as the tenth woman member of the Executive Committee)

• Vivian Weyerhaeuser Piasecki, 1991-96 (thirteenth woman Term Trustee)

• Norma Joan Peden Killebrew, 1992-96 (twelfth Alumni Trustee)

• Andrea Louise Mitchell, 1992-present (thirteenth woman Alumni Trustee; elected in 1997 as the fifteenth Term Trustee; elected in June 1995 as the eleventh woman Trustee to serve on the Executive Committee)

• Judith Helaine Roth Berkowitz, 1992-present (fourteenth woman Term Trustee)

• Claire Muriel Mintzer Fagin, 1993-94 (first woman Interim President; eighth woman Trustee to serve on the Executive Committee)

• Judith Seitz Rodin, 1994-present (first woman President; ninth woman Trustee to serve on the Executive Committee)

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