Notable Alumni

Connecticut College alumni have excelled in fields from medicine to the media. This is a representative sampling of those whose achievements are especially notable.

Tim Armstrong '93
Google Inc., Vice President, Advertising Sales

Jim Berrien '74
Forbes Magazine Group, Publisher and President

Allen Carroll '73
National Geographic Society, Chief Cartographer

Ted Chapin '72
Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, President/Executive Director

Peggy Charren '49
Action for Children's Television, Founder

Charles Chun '90
Actor

Karen Church '90
CBS Television, Vice President for Talent and Casting

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Alec Ounsworth '00, Lee Sargent '00, Robbie Guertin '02, Tyler Sargent '00 and Sean Greenhalgh '02) Musicians

Michael Collier '76
Poet, Director of The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Middlebury College

Anita DeFrantz '74
Olympic Medalist, Rowing; Vice President of the International Olympic Committee

David Dorfman '81
Dancer

Lee Eisenberg '99
Television Screenwriter
(The Office )

Vincent Farrell '96
Spike TV, Director of Production

Sean Fine '96
Sundance Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Oscar nominee 
(War/Dance)

David Foster '77
Director of the Harvard Forest

Marie L. Garibaldi '56
First woman to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court

Vance Gilbert '79
Musician

 

Joshua Green '94
Senior Editor, The Atlantic Monthly

Amy Gross '63
O, The Oprah Magazine,
Editor-in-Chief

Agnes Gund '60
Museum of Modern Art, President Emerita

Dorcas Hardy '68
Commissioner of the Social Security Administration 1986-89

David Haussler '77
University of California - Santa Cruz, Director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering,

Bruce Hoffman '76
Terrorism expert

Judy Irving '68
Emmy Award and Sundance-winning Filmmaker

LaShawn R. Jefferson
Human Rights Watch, Executive Director, Women's Rights Division

Drew Ketterer '71
Attorney General, Maine, 1995-2000

Barbara Shattuck Kohn '72
Principal, Shattuck Hammond Partners, and Chair of the College Board of Trustees

Susan Kronick '73
Federated Department Stores, Vice Chair

Jay Lauf '86
Publisher, The Atlantic

Linda Lear '62
Author, environmentalist

Andre Lee '93
Film producer

Trish May '75
Venture philanthropist; Athena Partners, Founder and CEO

Suzi Oppenheimer '56
New York State Senator

Leland Orser '82
Actor

 

Estelle Parsons '49
Academy Award-winning Actor

Mary Lake Polan
Stanford University School of Medicine, Chair and Professor Emeritus, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Christof Putzel '01
Broadcast Journalist, winner of student Academy Award for AIDS documentary Left Behind.

Luanne Rice '77
Novelist (Sandcastles, Beach Girls )

Peter Som '93
Fashion Designer

Sally Susman '84
Pfizer Inc., Senior Vice President & Chief Communications Officer

Susan Thomases '65
Attorney, Presidential Adviser

Ellen R. Vitetta '64
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Director of the Cancer Immunobiology Center

Jessie Vogelson '96
Film and television producer     
(No End in Sight)

Kevin Wade '76
Screenwriter (Working Girl, Meet Joe Black)

Patricia Wald '48
Federal Judge, Retired; Member of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and Member of the Iraq Intelligence Commission

Kimberly Williams '90
National Football League, Senior Vice President of Finance

Tim Young '92
Olympic Medalist, Sculling

 

 

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