summer of 2008, the film My One and Only was partially filmed in the school. The movie was released in 2009. Notable alumnae Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (first woman in US history to be so); 1958 graduate Catherine "Cassie" Mackin, NBC Newsanchor, NBC's first woman floor reporter at the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions, ABC news correspondent, two-time Emmy award winner for television journalism; 1956 graduate Barbara Mikulski, member of United States Senate representing Maryland, the senior U.S. senator from Maryland, longest-serving female senator and the longest-serving woman in the history of the U.S. Congress; 1954 graduate Captain Joan Queen, first woman and African-American captain of a U.S. naval hospital, “The Beaufort”; 1974 graduate Mildred Otenasek, the first female member of the Democratic National Committee for Maryland; professor, mentor, and trustee, Notre Dame of Maryland University; 1932 graduate Grace Geppi Connolly, first woman Register of Wills for Baltimore County, serving since 1998; 1961 graduate Rosemary Stafford Baldwin, Baltimore Colts cheerleader (one of first in NFL); 1956 graduate Eleanor O'Neill Dudley, Baltimore Colts cheerleader (one of first in NFL); 1956 graduate Betsy Slade, actress Chief Laura Shiloh, first female battalion chief in the 149-year history of the Baltimore Fire Department; 1981 graduate Brigadier General Allyson Grant Solomon, the first woman and African-American senior commander in the Maryland Air National Guard; 1979 graduate Renee Demski MSW, MBA, Senior Director of Johns Hopkins Medicine's Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care as well as the Senior Director of Quality Improvement and Operations Integration for the Johns Hopkins Health System; 1981 graduate Theresa Franz Meade DVM, biomedical researcher and regulatory veterinarian for Charles River, Inc. at the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging; 1996 graduate Carolyn Mignini, Miss Teenage America 1965, actress; 1965 graduate Lauren Parkes, Miss Black Delaware USA 2007, Miss Maryland Galaxy 2008; 2005 graduate Mary Anne Perry-Hoffman, former DJ at WLIF, now a news reporter for Maryland News Network. Mimi Haw Dietrich, author of 17 books on quilting and the recipient of Teacher of the Year from International Association of Professional Quilters; Inducted Quilters Hall of Fame, Marion, Indiana July 2015; 1966 graduate See also National Catholic Educational Association References External links Institute of Notre Dame - Institute of Notre Dame | Private All Girls High School | Baltimore, MD Maryland Newsline, Schools - Betsy Slade - Betsy Slade Roman Catholic Archdiocese of