Goucher College is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland. It was originally established in 1885 as a women's college and became coeducational in 1986.

The following is an incomplete list of prominent Goucher people.

Notable alumni

Law, government, and public affairs

Sally Brice-O'Hara (1974), vice admiral and vice commandant of the United States Coast Guard Joan Claybrook (1959), president of Public Citizen, think tank founded by Ralph Nader Zeke Cohen (2008), Baltimore City Council member and president Rita C. Davidson (1948), first woman on the Maryland Court of Appeals Ellen Lipton Hollander (1971), federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland Sarah T. Hughes (1917), federal judge who administered the presidential oath of office to Lyndon B. Johnson following the assassination of John F. Kennedy Margaret G. Kibben, rear admiral, U.S. Navy (ret.), chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, chaplain of the United States Marine Corps Phyllis A. Kravitch (1941), federal judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Amy Kuhn, state representative in Maine Laurie McKinnon (1982), associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court Johnny Olszewski (2004), U.S. representative from and former Baltimore county executive Kevin B. Quinn (2001), chief executive officer and administrator of the Maryland Transit Administration A. Margaret Russanowska (1912), social worker, US Department of Labor, film censor, Red Cross worker Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre (1908), daughter of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and political activist Paula Stern (1967), former chairwoman of the United States International Trade Commission Lucé Vela (1982), former First Lady of Puerto Rico

Literature and journalism

Ellen Bass (1968), poet Emily Newell Blair, writer, feminist, and co-founder of the League of Women Voters Sheri Booker, author and poet Andrew Ervin (1993), novelist and critic Margaret Fishback (1921), author and poet Jonah Goldberg (1991), author and conservative commentator Anne Lamott (attended for two years), memoirist Laura Amy Schlitz (1977), author, Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor winner Darcey Steinke (1985), author and university lecturer Eleanor Wilner (1959), poet, 1991 MacArthur Fellow

Scientists, physicians, psychologists, mathematicians, and researchers

Beatrice Aitchison (1928), mathematician and transportation economist Hattie Alexander (1923), pediatrician and microbiologist Anne Bahlke (1926), physician, medical research, state public health official Ruth Bleier (1945), neurophysiologist, feminist scholar Teresa Cohen (1912), mathematician Nan Dieter-Conklin (1948), radio astronomer Helen Dodson Price (1927), astronomer, winner of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy Lois Feinblatt (1942), sex therapist Margaret Irving Handy (1911), pediatrician Helen C. Harrison (1931), winner of the John Howland Award and the E. Mead Johnson Award for work in pediatrics Ethel Browne Harvey, embryologist Marjorie G. Horning, biochemist and pharmacologist Georgeanna Seegar Jones (1932), reproductive endocrinologist Kate Breckenridge Karpeles (1909), United States Army doctor during World War I Harriet H. Malitson (1948), astronomer at Goddard Space Flight Center Grace Manson, psychologist Margaret McFarland (1927), psychologist and consultant to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Florence Marie Mears (1917), mathematician Bessie Moses (1915), gynecologist and obstetrician Florence B. Seibert (1918), biochemist Lydia Villa-Komaroff, molecular biologist Jean Worthley (1944), naturalist

Academics and scholars Shirley Montag Almon (1956), economist Anna Crone, linguist and literary theorist Constance Prem Nath Dass (1911), first Indian president of Isabella Thoburn College Alice Deal (1899), first female school principal in the District of Columbia Amelia Frank, physicist, wife of Eugene Wigner Karen S. Haynes (1968), president of California State University, San Marcos Amy Hewes (1897), economist and professor at Mount Holyoke College Alice Kessler-Harris (1961), historian and professor Stephen Kimber, Canadian journalist and professor at University of King's College Melissa Klapper (1995), historian and storyteller Joan Maling, linguist and professor Nancy Mowll Mathews (1968), art historian Sara Haardt Mencken (1920), professor of English literature, wife of H. L. Mencken Elizabeth Nesbitt (1897–1977), children's librarian, library science educator Edith Philips (1913), educator and writer, 1928 Guggenheim Fellow Hortense Powdermaker (1919), anthropologist Elizabeth Barrows Ussher, Christian missionary and witness to the Armenian genocide

Arts and entertainment

Nan Agle, children's books author Clara Beranger (1907), screenwriter, married to William C. DeMille Mildred Dunnock (1922), Oscar-nominated film and stage actress Alison Fanelli (2001), actress starring as Ellen on The Adventures of Pete & Pete Dustin Hodge, producer and writer Jesse J. Holland (2012), journalist, author, and guest host on C-SPAN's Washington Journal Anne Hummert (née. Schumacher) (1925), creator of leading radio soap operas during the 1930s and '40s Christine Jowers (1985), choreographer, producer, and dance critic Nancy Koenigsberg (B.A. degree 1949), sculptor and textile artist Jane Levy (attended for a semester), actress Selma L. Oppenheimer, Baltimore-based artist Mary Vivian Pearce, actress who worked with film director John Waters, considered one of the Dreamlanders Gabby Rivera (2004), author of fiction and graphic novels Ruddy Roye (1998), documentary photographer and Time magazine's pick for Instagram Photographer of 2016 Rosalind Solomon (1951), artist and photographer

Business

Katherine August-deWilde, former president of First Republic Bank from 2007 to 2015 and current vice chair Sally Buck, partial owner of the Major League Baseball team Philadelphia Phillies Sherry Cooper (1972), former chief economist at BMO Financial Group Olive Dennis (1908), civil engineer for B&O Railroad, first female member of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association Bradford Shellhammer (1998), eBay executive, co-founder of Fab.com and Queerty Elsie Shutt, one of the first women to start a software company in the United States

Sports

Nathan Chen (post-baccalaureate premedical class of 2025), two-time Olympic gold medalist in figure skating Susan Devlin (1953), American-Irish badminton champion Matthew Forgues, racewalker Judy Devlin Hashman (1958), ten-time All-England badminton singles champion Emily Kagan, mixed martial artist

Notable faculty

Vasily Aksyonov, Soviet-Russian novelist Flo Ayres, radio actress Kaushik Bagchi, Indian historian Jean H. Baker, historian Robert M. Beachy, historian Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, mathematician Chrystelle Trump Bond, dancer, choreographer and dance historian Alice Braunlich, classical philologist Neil H. Buchanan, economist and legal scholar George Delahunty, physiologist and endocrinologist Rhoda Dorsey, historian Janet Dudley-Eshbach, academic administrator Andrew Ervin, author, critic and, editor Harriet Campbell Foss, painter Thomas French, journalist Marianne Githens, political scientist, author, and feminist Margret Grebowicz, Polish philosopher, author, and jazz vocalist Pamela Haag, author, historian Mildred Harnack, American-German historian, translator, and German Resistance fighter in Nazi Germany Elaine Ryan Hedges, writer and feminist Clark S. Hobbs, vice president Dustin Hodge, producer and writer Jesse J. Holland, journalist and author Ailish Hopper, poet, writer, and teacher Nancy Hubbard, author and public relations consultant Harry Mortimer Hubbell, classicist Julie Roy Jeffrey, historian Nina Kasniunas, political scientist and writer Elaine Koppelman, mathematician LaDema Langdon, botanist Suzannah Lessard, author Florence Lewis, mathematician and astronomer Robert Hall Lewis, composer Laura Lippman, author Oliver W. F. Lodge, British author and poet William Harding Longley, botanist Nina Marković, Croatian-American physicist Elizabeth Stoffregen May, economist and women's education advocate Maynard Mayo Metcalf, biologist Howard Norman, writer and educator Edith Philips, writer and French literary academic Richard Pringle, psychologist Victor Ricciardi, professor of business and author Alice S. Rossi, sociologist and feminist Mike Sager, journalist and author Forrest Shreve, botanist Martha Siegel, mathematician and educator Robert Slocum, botanist and biologist Eleanor Patterson Spencer, art historian Elizabeth Spires, poet Dorothy Stimson, historian of science Shira Tarrant, writer Ruth Dogget Terzaghi, geologist Bill Thomas, journalist Michelle Tokarczyk, author, poet, and literary critic Meline Toumani, author and journalist Sanford J. Ungar, journalist and academic administrator Robert S. Welch, academic administrator Juliette Wells, author and editor Lilian Welsh, physician, educator, suffragist, and advocate for women's health Mary Wilhelmine Williams, historian Ola Elizabeth Winslow, historian, biographer, and educator Jill Zimmerman, computer scientist Mary Kay Zuravleff, writer and novelist David Zurawik, journalist, author, and media critic

Presidents Since its founding, Goucher has had a total of 18 presidents, five of whom were acting. The college's longest-serving president was Rhoda Dorsey, who held the position for 20 years.

S. No. Name Term 1. William Hersey Hopkins 1886–1890 2. John Goucher 1890–1908 3. Eugene Allen Noble 1908–1911 * John Blackford Van Meter 1911–1913 4. William Westley Guth 1913–1929 * Hans Froelicher 1929–1930 * Dorothy Stimson 1930 5. David Allan Robertson 1930–1948 6. Otto Kraushaar 1948–1967 7. Marvin Banks Perry Jr. 1967–1973 * Rhoda Dorsey 1973–1974 8. Rhoda Dorsey 1974–1994 9. Judy Jolley Mohraz 1994–2000 * Robert S. Welch 2000–2001 10. Sanford J. Ungar 2001–201411. José Antonio Bowen 2014–2019*Bryan Coker2019–201912.Kent Devereaux2019–present

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