Alumnae Firsts

• Charlotte Fox '79
  First American woman to have climbed three of the world's 8,000 meter (26,000-foot peaks); she survived deadly blizzard on Mount Everest in May 1996
• Rev. Cynthia Hale '75
  First woman to serve as chaplain for the day for the U.S. House of Representatives at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
• Elizabeth Valk Long '72
  First woman publisher at Time Inc, (publisher of Life, then People, Time)
• Ann Compton '69
  First woman to be named a White House correspondent
• Wyndham Robertson '58
  First female editor at Fortune magazine and the first female vice president at the University of North Carolina
• Lucie Gillespie Greever '40
  First woman to graduate from UVa's school of architecture
• Mary Garber '38
  First woman sportswriter in the Atlantic Coast Conference, now inducted into the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame; received Hollins' first Distinguished Alumnae Award in May 2006
• Lottie Moon, Class of 1858
  First woman to earn a master of arts degree from UVa (one of 5); Baptist missionary — the church has raised over $1 billion in her name
• Fanny Scott Bagby
  First woman to hold municipal office in the Commonwealth of Virginia (attended before the Civil War)