Notable Alumni
Alumni of MUW are known collectively as "The Long Blue Line" and are known for their loyalty to their school
Notable MUW alumni include:
- Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush, secretary of the Democratic National Committee (1944–1989) and the youngest person and first woman to be elected as an officer of either the Democratic or Republican party
- Helen Carloss, first woman to argue a case before all of the United States courts of appeals
- Kay Beevers Cobb Justice, Mississippi Supreme Court, retired
- Kathy Coole Miss Mississippi, 1973
- Cheryl Cooper, prize winning marketer
- Dr. Bettye Rogers Coward, President of Blue Mountain College, Blue Mountain, Mississippi
- Denise Dillard, award-winning playwright
- Susan Golden, National Academy of Sciences member and Professor of Molecular Biology at University of California, San Diego
- Elizabeth Lee Hazen, co-discoverer of nystatin
- Glynda Hull, Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley
- David A. Ivey, elected first male student body president of MUW, 1991-1992
- Valerie Jaudon, award-winning artist
- L. Kim Kimbrough, award-winning New York Times Syndicate journalist and first female auto racing manager for Fortune 500 company Allied-Signal (now Honeywell)
- Evelyn McPhail, co-chair of Republican National Committee (1994–1997)
- Mary Libby Bickerstaff Payne, Mississippi Appeals Court Judge, retired
- Dr. Bridget Smith Pieschel, Director of the Southern Women's Institute at MUW, and author of Golden Days: Reminiscences of Alumnae, Mississippi State College for Women and Loyal Daughters: One Hundred Years at Mississippi University for Women, 1884-1984.
- Lenore Prather, first female Mississippi Supreme Court Justice
- Penelope J. Stokes, author
- Doris Taylor, scientist known for achievements in stem cell research
- Shannon A. Truesdell-Rader (nee Rickey), first female Navy ABH3 Aircraft Crash and Salvage Firefighting Crew Member (Crash and Smash) on board the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, CVN 69
- Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Blanche Colton Williams, author and first editor of the O. Henry Prize Stories
- Toni Seawright, the first African-American Miss Mississippi (1987) and 4th runner-up to Miss America that same year
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