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Woman of the Year Award Honorees

  • 1965 Louise A. Mohn — Science Teacher
  • 1966 Gail Patrick Velde — Television Producer
  • 1967 Marcia Neugebauer — Space Scientist
  • 1968 Mary E. LaFetra — Industrialist
  • 1969 C. Joan Coggin, M.D. — Cardiologist
  • 1970 Katherine H. Haley — Rancher
  • 1971 Marjorie Came — Fashion Executive
  • 1972 Ruth P. Yaffe, Ph.D. — Professor of Chemistry
  • 1973 Frances E. Hunt — Business Executive
  • 1974 Joan E. Hodgman, M.D. — Director of Neonatology
  • 1975 Nanette Fabray — Advocate for the Deaf
  • 1976 E. Margaret Burbidge, Ph.D. — Astronomer
  • 1977 Ray Eames — Designer
  • 1978 Edith Head — Fashion Designer
  • 1979 Margaret G. Kivelson, Ph.D. — Physicist
  • 1980 Mildred L.Lillie — Court of Appeals Justice
  • 1981 Sylvia Earle, Ph.D. — Marine Botanist & Ecologist
  • 1982 Lee Hogan Cass — Retail Fashion Executive
  • 1983 Mary A. B. Brazier, Ph.D. — Professor of Physiology
  • 1982 Lee Hogan Cass — Retail Fashion Executive
  • 1983 Mary A. B. Brazier, Ph.D. — Professor of Physiology
  • 1984 Sister Marie M. Shonka — President, St. John’s Hospital and Health Center
  • 1985 Anna L. Fisher, Ph.D. — Astronaut
  • 1986 Paige Rense — Editor-in-Chief, Architectural Digest
  • 1987 Alexandra Levine, M.D. — Professor, USC School of Medicine
  • 1988 Astrid E. Blaker — President & CEO, Komar International
  • 1989 Ann Reynolds — Chancellor, California State University
  • 1990 Jane G. Pisano, Ph.D. — The 2000 Partnership
  • 1991 Lt.Cmdr.Rose Escobedo, R.N. — Nurse Corps, United States Navy
  • 1992 First Lady of California Gayle Wilson — Advocate for ScienceEducation
  • 1993 Susan M. Love, M.D. — Director of the UCLA Breast Center
  • 1995 Linda Griego — President & CEO of Rebuild L.A.
  • 1996 Jane Goodall — Scientist, Wildlife Researcher
  • 1997 Linda LoRe — President & CEO, Georgio
  • 1998 Donna Shirley — Manager, Mars Exploration Directorate, JPL
  • 1999 Lucile M. Jones, Ph.D. — Scientist-in-Charge, Earthquake Activities, U.S. Geological Survey
  • 2000 Tonian Hohberg — President & CEO, The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising
  • 2002 Maeve Leakey — M.D., Paleoanthropologist
  • 2003 Stayce D. Harris — First Officer 747-400, United Airlines
  • 2004 Debra Reed — President/COO Sempra Energy Utilities
  • 2005 Carlotta Glackin, Ph.D. — Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope
  • 2006 Andrea Donellan, Ph.D. — Deputy Division Manager, Earth and Space Sciences Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • 2007 Helena Chui, M.D. — Director, Alzheimer Disease Research Center, USC
  • “Dear Abby” — Advice Columnist and Alzheimer’s Research Advocate and Spokesperson
  • 2008 Marie Gray — Founder of St. John Knits and Kelly Gray, St. John Design Consultant
  • 2009 Cheryl M. Craft, Ph.D. — The Mary D. Allen Chair in Vision Research, DEI Professor, Departments of Ophthalmology and Cell & Neurobiology, Keck School of Medicine of USC
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