Douglass Residential College

Notable alumnae

• Alice Aycock DC'68: Sculptor
• Eva Persson Boratto DC'88: CFO CVS Health
• Catherine H. Bailey: horticulturist
• Leonie Brinkema DC'65: Judge, U.S. District Court, E.D. Va.
• Elise M. Boulding NJCW'40: Peace activist, sociologist
• Elizabeth Cavanna Harrison NJCW'29: children's book author
• Carol T. Christ DC'66: former President, Smith College, current Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley
• Janet Evanovich DC'65: author
• Jeanne Fox DC'74: President, New Jersey Board of Public Utilities
• Helen Hall Jennings NJCW'27: American scientist in the fields of psychology and sociology
• Jaynee LaVecchia DC'76: New Jersey Supreme Court Justice
• Linda Lindroth DC'68: American artist, photographer, and writer
• Susan Martin DC'68: retired Georgetown University professor, expert on international migrations
• Imbolo Mbue DC'02: Novelist
• Janet L. Norwood DC'45: economist, US Commissioner of Labor Statistics.
• Edna G. Parker, U.S. Tax Court judge
• Judith Shatin DC'71: composer
• Joann H. Smith, politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from the 13th Legislative District from 1986 to 1998.
• Freda L. Wolfson DC'76: Judge, U.S. District Court, D. N.J.
• Joanne Yatvin, NJCW'52: President of the National Council of Teachers of English. Author of books and articles for teachers.
• Karen Young, actress

  Deans

• Mabel Smith Douglass : A graduate of Barnard College, Mabel Smith Douglass was a leader of the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs.
• Margaret Trumbull Corwin : A graduate of Bryn Mawr with a master's degree from Yale. It was during Dean Corwin’s tenure that the New Jersey College for Women became Douglass College.
• Mary Bunting : A graduate of Vassar with advanced degrees in microbiology from the University of Wisconsin. She resigned to become president of Radcliffe.
• Ruth Marie Adams : An Adelphi graduate with a doctorate in English from Radcliffe. She resigned to become president of Wellesley.
• Margery Somers Foster : A graduate of Wellesley with a doctorate in economics from Radcliffe.
• Jewel Plummer Cobb : A graduate of Talladega College in Alabama with advanced degrees in cell biology from New York University. She resigned to become president of California State University at Fullerton.
• Mary S. Hartman : A graduate of Swarthmore with an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University in history, Mary S. Hartman became a member of the Douglass History Department in 1968. She served as director of the Women’s Studies Institute from 1975 to 1977, was named acting dean in 1981, and dean in 1982. She resigned to become director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University.
• Barbara A. Shailor : A graduate of Wilson College with a master's degree and doctorate in classics from the University of Cincinnati. She resigned to become Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. She was appointed the Deputy Provost for the Arts at Yale University in 2003.
• Carmen Twillie Ambar : A graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Carmen Twillie Ambar earned a law degree from Columbia School of Law and a master’s in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. In 2008, Ambar resigned to become president of Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA, and in 2017 she became President of Oberlin College..
• Jacquelyn Litt : A graduate of William Smith College with an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from University of Pennsylvania.