Alumnae Notes

NOTES

1943

Elizabeth King

Personal: Celebrated 103rd birthday Jan. 31, 2021.

1971

Deirdre Pierce Pate

Professional: Elected to the school board serving Atlanta/DeKalb County, Georgia.

1979

Mayela Allen

Professional: Promoted to executive director of the American Cancer Society.

1980

Patricia Wilson Aden

Professional: Named president and CEO of The Blues Foundation.

1984

Personal: Christel Jones received the Whitney M. Young Service Award from the Atlanta Area Council and Boy Scouts of America.

1986

Alysa Story

Professional: Began teaching as a professor of motion media design at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

1987

Stacy Thompson Speare-Hardy

Professional: Promoted by KeyBank to senior vice president, West and Midwest Regional Corporate Responsibility manager.

1988

Candace D. Stoakley

Professional: Awarded the UIC Janice Watkins Award for Distinguished Civil Service.

1989

Monica Purdy

Professional: Elected presiding judge of the 95th State Civil District Court in Dallas County, Texas, becoming the first African American in the court’s 100-year history.

1991

Tacita A. Mikel Scott

Professional: Elected to the management committee at Wong Fleming, a minority and women-owned law firm with a number of national offices.

1992

Juvonda S. Hodge

Professional: Appointed to the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.

Monica Johnson-Lawson

Professional: Became the first Black woman chaplain colonel in the U.S. Army.

1993

Gretchen Cook-Anderson,

Professional: Named associate vice president/assistant to the president for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Antiracism at IES Abroad.

Maricia Bennekin-Woodham

Professional: Promoted to supervisory administrative judge (Washington field office) at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

1995

Kettisha Jones

Education: Earned a doctorate in education from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas.

1996

Schnavia Hatcher

Professional: Appointed dean of University of Alabama School of Social Work.

Libya Doman

Professional: Named the 2020 Virginia Art Educator of the Year and elementary Art Educator of the Year by the Virginia Art Education Association.

1997

Nikki Harland

Professional: Named president of the retail division of Paradies Lagardère, a leading airport retailer and restaurateur.

2000

Tarayn Caudle

Professional: Named program director for Management Academy of the Leadership Greater Huntsville team.

Andreá Williams

Professional: Appointed the new director of The Women’s Place at The Ohio State University.

2002

Philathia Bolton

Professional: Earned tenure and was promoted to associate professor of English at The University of Akron.

Erin Harper

Professional: Granted tenure and promoted to associate professor at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

2003

Meagan E. Garland

Professional: Was promoted to firm partnership with Duane Morris LLP.

2005

Jennifer Ballard Croft

Professional: Hired as chief legal and HR officer at INTREN, one of the country’s largest women-owned utility specialty companies. Birth: Daughter, Caris Alexandria Croft.

Benika Dixon

Education: Earned a doctorate in epidemiology and environmental health from Texas A&M University School of Public Health.

2008

Allison Henderson-Brooks

Professional: Selected as the first assistant director of Student Life for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Candler School of Theology, Emory University.

Remi Onifade

Professional: Opened Benchmark Physical Therapy in Ellenwood, Georgia.

2010

Brittnee Gauthier

Birth: Son born in Redwood City, California.

2012

Kelly Harper

Professional: Named manager of external affairs at Marietta City Schools.

2017

Cristy Jones

Professional: Named career coach at Agnes Scott College.