Barmeyer is an Atlanta-based leading environmental attorney. She earned her law degree from Harvard in 1971, cum laude. For 17 years she worked on environmental and natural resource cases as assistant attorney general for the State of Georgia, arguing in the United States Supreme Court a dispute over the boundary line between Georgia and South Carolina.…

Baruch retired from National Association of Securities Dealers as Executive Vice President, Policy and Oversight, in September 2003 and was president of Dumbarton Group LLC, consulting on securities industry regulatory issues until January 2007. Baruch serves on the boards of 72 mutual funds in the American Funds family, 66 of which she serves as chair; and The Swiss Helvetia Fund.…

Batten (shown, right) is widely known as a generous philanthropist. She is the widow of Frank Batten, former chairman of Landmark Communications. They provided the funding for Hollins’ Batten Leadership Institute, which was founded in 2002. Hollins honored Jane Batten with the honorary doctorate of laws in May 2008, the year she was the featured speaker during the commencement exercises.…

Bayless, a resident at Duke University Medical Center in the Department of Community and Family Medicine, is part of an innovative program that trains family doctors to be community leaders. Growing up in South Boston, Virginia, Bayless always knew she wanted to study medicine and help people, and she chose Hollins partly because of its small science classes,…

(1937 – 2017) A sociology major at Hollins, Belk earned a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1963. A 50-year legal veteran in the Charlotte, North Carolina, community, she is a retired U.S. district court judge. Before taking the bench in 1968, she served as assistant clerk of Mecklenburg County Superior Court.…

Bell has written 13 novels, among them The Washington Square Ensemble, Waiting for the End of the World, Straight Cut, The Year of Silence, Doctor Sleep, Save Me, Joe Louis, Ten Indians, Soldier’s Joy, which received the Lillian Smith Award in 1989, and The Color of Night. All Soul’s Rising was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award and winner of the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf award for the best book of the year dealing with matters of race.…

Bennett is a teacher, scientist, environmentalist, and the recently retired director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. During her tenure the museum grew into the largest natural history museum in the Southeast. It has awed millions of visitors and the holdings increased to 1.8 million specimens – including the only dinosaur heart in the world.…

Berman is a renowned expert and pioneer in the field of female urology and female sexual medicine. She earned an M.S. degree from the University of Maryland Medical Center and a medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. She cofounded the Female Sexual Medicine Center at UCLA and founded the Berman Women’s Wellness Center in Beverly Hills.…

Berner is a leading female entrepreneur in the energy conservation business and has developed a reputation as a national voice for health care reform and women’s issues. When her husband died unexpectedly, Berner stepped in to run the family company, Berner International. In her first two decades as president and CEO, the Pennsylvania company saw a triple-digit increase in growth and profits and has become an industry leader.…

Boysko majored in psychology and French at Hollins, but found herself in politics immediately after graduation, working in the U.S. Senate office of Richard Shelby from her home state of Alabama. Later she took a job at a D.C. government-relations firm as a legislative assistant. Boysko paused her career to be a stay-at-home mom to her two daughters,…

Betty Branch earned both her B.A. and M.A. in studio art from Hollins University. Proficient in both painting and sculpture, she served as an apprentice to acquire technical skills (Miles and Generalis Sculpture Services in Philadelphia), and embarked on periods of independent study to expand and reinforce her knowledge of art history and art techniques in Greece,…

(1910 – 1952) Brown wrote hundreds of children’s books and stories during her brief life (she died in 1952 at age 42), but she is best known for a handful of classics, including The Runaway Bunny (1942) and Goodnight Moon (1947). Brown was one of the first authors to write specifically for children aged two to five.…

Butler has spent most of his career as a photographer and documentary filmmaker. His photographs of Arnold Schwarzenegger illustrated Charles Gaines’ 1974 essay “Pumping Iron,” which was the title of Butler’s first documentary. Butler also directed Pumping Iron II: the Women. In 2000, he made a well-received documentary, Endurance, about Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic expedition.…