Baldwin School - Notable Alumnae

Notable Alumnae

  • Emma Hamm (2007): Division I lacrosse player for Duke University; Member of 2007 U-19 World Championship Team; Named to All-World Team; 2008 ACC Rookie of the Year, Womenslacrosse.com's Rookie of the Year, Womenslax.com's Rookie of the Year.
  • Leslie Lyness (1986): part of the U.S. Field Hockey Team that competed in the 1996 Olympic Games.
  • Kinney Zalesne (1983): former Counsel to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, co-author of Microtrends
  • Ruth Davidon (1982): Olympic rower; competed in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games.
  • Andrea Lee (1970): writer and novelist.
  • Henrietta H. Fore (1966): former director of the U.S. Mint; later administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (2007–2009).
  • Martha Craven Nussbaum (1964): Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago; named among the world’s Top 100 intellectuals by Foreign Policy magazine in September 2005.
  • Cornelia Otis Skinner (1918): actress and writer; once known as "the greatest single attraction in American theater."
  • Helen Taft Manning (1908): daughter of President Taft; became the youngest dean in the country when she accepted the post at Bryn Mawr College in 1917.
  • Gertrude Summer Ely (1895): twice-decorated by the French for Distinguished Bravery Under Fire; past president of the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters; member of the executive committee for UNICEF and the World Affairs Council.

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