- attorney Tanya "Rafika" Anderson - U.S. diplomat; Consul General to Barcelona and Guadalajara Leslie Esdaile Banks - novelist Hon. Deborah Batts - Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Becky Birtha - poet and author Susan Braudy - author, journalist and Pulitzer nominee Elaine Brown - first woman head of the Black Panther Party Vanessa Lowery Brown - Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives who was convicted of bribery Blondell Reynolds Brown - politician; only woman to serve as Philadelphia City Councilmember At-Large 1999-2015 Bebe Moore Campbell - author Mary Schmidt Campbell - president of Spelman College Barbara Chase-Riboud - artist, sculptor, bestselling novelist and award-winning poet Buntzie Ellis Churchill - president of World Affairs Council Constance Clayton - first woman and first African American Superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia Mae Virginia Cowdery - poet Reed Erickson - philanthropist; transgendered man who provided early support to the LGBT movement Jessie Redmon Fauset - Harlem Renaissance novelist; editor of The Crisis Eileen Folson (Eileen Garden Folson) - Grammy-nominated musician, Broadway composer (218, 1974) Shirley Clarke Franklin - first woman mayor of Atlanta, GA Vanessa Northington Gamble - physician; authority on public health; chaired the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee Julie Gold - Grammy-winning songwriter, singer (218, 1974) Tina Sloan Green - athlete Edith Grossman, Ph.D. (Edith Dorph Grossman) - translator of modern Latin American literature Helene Hanff - author, wrote 84 Charing Cross Road Barbara Harris - first woman ordained a bishop of the Episcopal Church Lillian Hoban - American illustrator and children's writer; published in over 1,400 publications; Lewis Carroll Shelf and Christopher Award winner M. Lindsay Kaplan - academic; Georgetown University English professor; scholar of early modern English literature and Jewish studies Minnie Kenny - cryptologist; early NSA employee; former Chief of Language and Linguistics for the Office of Techniques and Standards of the NSA Milly Koss - computing pioneer Virginia Knauer - economic advisor to President Nixon and President Ford; first Director of the Office of Consumer Affairs Pinkie Gordon Lane - first African American poet laureate of Louisiana Carol Lazzaro-Weis - professor of Italian and French, translator and scholar Lisa Lopes - member of the best-selling female American group of all time, TLC Hon. Frederica Massiah-Jackson - President of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Jeanette DuBois Meech – evangelist and industrial educator Pauline Oberdorfer