Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Madeleine Wing Adler (‘62) - president, West Chester University
• Leigh Alexander (‘79) - chief marketing officer, Unisys, Blue Bell, PA
• H. Keys Allan (‘68) - owner, SPORTea
• Marie Arana (‘71) - book editor, Washington Post
• Lee Phillip Bell (‘50) - creator, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful
• Saul Bellow (‘37) - Nobel Prize-winning author
• Sara Bloomfield (‘72) - director, United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC
• Anthony Bozza (‘93), New York Times best-selling author; former Rolling Stones cover story writer
• Kevin Briscoe (‘97) - political officer, U.S. Embassy in Kuwait
• Frederick Brown (‘62) - president and CEO, Northern Arizona Healthcare; vice chairman of the board of commissioners, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; chair-elect, National Kidney Foundation
• Chris Kamm Cairns (‘71) - executive director of broadband technologies, SBC California
• E. Michael Carney III (‘59) - president, Carney Music
• Nick Chabraja (‘64) - chairman and CEO, General Dynamics
• Doug Chamberlin (‘88) - screenwriter
• Douglas Conant (‘73) - president and CEO, Campbell Soup Co.
• Bonnie Swanson Daniels (‘69) - director, Management Systems International; officer-in-charge of various global USAID projects
• Kay Kujala Deaux (‘63) - distinguished professor of psychology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York; former president, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
• Terri Dial (‘71) - former president and CEO, Wells Fargo Bank
• Luke Donald (‘01) - professional golfer
• Charles Drueck (‘67) - surgeon; vice speaker, Illinois State Medical Society; assistant professor of clinical surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine
• Paul Edelson (‘84) - Emmy Award documentary nominee
• Louise Evans (‘49) - named 2001 International Scientist of the Year by the American Biographical Institute's 1000 World Leaders of Scientific Influence
• Scott Feeney (‘87) - country director, the office of the secretary of defense
• D. Cameron Findlay (‘82) - executive vice president and general counsel, Aon Corporation; former Deputy Secretary of Labor
• Eli Finkel (‘97) - assistant professor of psychology, Northwestern University
• Charles Flipper (‘87) - assistant clinical professor of neurology, Olive View UCLA Medical Center
• Sharon Foote (‘89) - associate partner with IBM Business Consulting Services
• Christopher Galvin (‘73) - chairman, NAVTEQ Corp.; former president and CEO, Motorola, Inc.
• Alex Garcia (‘89) - staff photographer for the Chicago Tribune, part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning news team
• Jonathan Gary (‘91) - senior research scientist, Biosite
• Lisa Gisvold (‘92) - consular officer, U.S. Embassy in Venezuela
• Michael Gottlieb (‘99) - U.S. Supreme Court law clerk
• Sonya Grier (‘87) - assistant professor of marketing at Stanford University graduate School of Business
• Lee Hanson (‘68) - associate vice chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis
• Brooke Hatton (‘01) - director of strategic planning, St. Louis Regional Health Commission
• Bridgette Heller (‘83) - former executive vice president, Kraft Foods North America; general manager, coffee division
• Lee Huebner (‘62) - communication studies professor, former Nixon speechwriter and publisher of the International Herald Tribune
• Brigid Hughes (‘94) - executive editor, The Paris Review magazine
• Angela Jackson (‘77) - poet, author, playwright
• Jeff Jacobs (‘92) - director of beverage new business development, Campbell Soup Company
• Tim Johnson (‘83) - film director
• Catherine Kaputa (‘70) - president, Self Brand; adjunct professor, New York University's Stern School of Business
• Marc Kirschner (‘66) - cell biology department chair, Harvard Medical School
• Jim Kolbe (‘65) - U.S. Congressman
• Tim Krauskopf (‘84) - co-founder, Spyglass, Inc.; former vice president, Motorola; CFO, Gemini Traffic Sales
• Judy Levering (‘60) - former president, U.S. Tennis Association
• Glenn Loury (‘72) - Brown University economist
• Stephen Malone (‘94) - employment counsel, National Broadcasting Company
• Todd Martin (‘92) - former professional tennis player
• Geoffrey Martineau (‘89) - chief fraud prevention officer, U.S. Embassy, Guatemala
• James McNaught ('90) - U.S. State Department officer, Afghanistan
• Barry Mizock (‘69) - associate director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit, John Stroger Hospital in Chicago
• Kathy Murphy (‘88) - senior vice president, Wachovia Bank commercial banking group
• John Musker (‘75) - Disney cartoon director
• J. David Nelson (‘63) - COO, National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, New York City
• Dawn Clark Netsch (‘48) - former state legislator and a key figure in Illinois politics
• Daryl Newell (‘86) - vice president of wealth management area, Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago
• Allison Jill Nied (‘92) - assistant professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx
• Brian Nies ('97) - resident conductor, Oakland Youth Symphony; Leonard Bernstein Fellowship recipient
• David Nissen (‘73) - president and CEO, GE Consumer Finance
• Phyllis Oakley (‘56) - diplomat, former top intelligence advisor to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
• William Osborn (‘69) - president and CEO, Northern Trust Corporation
• Donna Palmer (‘73) - former publisher, The Atlantic Monthly
• Eva Jefferson Paterson (‘71) - civil rights attorney, former national student leader of peace movement
• Amy Percy (‘98) - associate brand manager, Campbell Soup Company
• Dan Pikelny (‘91) - director of health and productivity, Navistar
• John Plaggemeier (‘63) - former engineering manager, General Motors
• Vivek Prachard (‘90) - assistant professor of surgery, University of Chicago
• John Reed (‘83) - primary care physician; board member, Washington County Health System
• Roya Rezaee (‘90) - vice chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology, Lincoln Park Hospital; assistant professor, Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center
• Ralph Rydholm (‘58) - former chairman and CEO, Euro RSCG Tatham Chicago
• James Schadt (‘60) - vice chairman, Mercator Software; former chairman and CEO, Readers Digest
• Deborah Schwartz (‘77) - deputy director for education, Museum of Modern Art in New York
• Kerry Shannon (‘83) - national director, PricewaterhouseCoopers Healthcare Provider Planning Practice, Chicago
• Sidney Sheldon (‘38) - romance novelist
• David Skorton (‘70) - president, Cornell University
• Geoffrey Smart (‘94) - founder, GH Smart; New York Times best-selling author
• Jeanne Sparrow (‘91) - television reporter/producer and radio personality, Midwest Emmy Award winner
• Christine Stephens (‘91) - assistant state's attorney, Cook County office
• Mark Stovsky (‘86) - urologist; associate professor of urology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; chief of urology - University Hospitals Richmond Medical Center, attending surgeon - University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
• Rick Sund (‘73) - general manager of the Seattle Supersonics basketball team
• Howard Traisman ('43) - pediatrician; professor, Feinberg School of Medicine
• Shane Tritsch (‘83) - managing editor, Chicago magazine
• William Tuohy (‘51) - foreign correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner
• Karen Turner (‘77) - deputy assistant administrator, State Department Bureau for Asia and the Near East
• Edward Weiler (‘71) - director, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Fred "The Hammer" Williamson (‘60) - actor
• Lisa Wissner-Slivka (‘85) - former program manager and product manager, Microsoft Corporation
• Joseph A. Walder (‘73) - professor of biochemistry, University of Iowa; founder and CEO, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT)
• Paul Winter (‘61) - musician; founder, Paul Winter Consort
• Peter Yeh (‘90) - founder, Gulf Coast Brain and Spine Institute
• Kathleen Rathbun Zubel (‘98) - orchestra director, Tucson Unified School District
• Steve Greenspon (‘91) - Founder and CEO of Honey-Can-Do International