Alphabetical by Name | Chronological by Year
Allen, Clara Marie Weber - First woman to receive L.L.B. degree, 1919
Beard, Louise Allen - One of two first women to graduate from Vanderbilt School of Medicine, 1929
Bowen, Barbara - First woman to chair a department (French and Italian) in the Vanderbilt College of Arts and Sciences, 1987
Bowie, Anna Mary - First woman faculty member in the Vanderbilt School of Medicine, 1922
Bowie, Thelma Byrd - One of two first women to graduate from Vanderbilt School of Medicine, 1929
Briskey, Lauren - First woman Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer (Administration), 1999-2009.
Brown, Anna - First Vanderbilt Alumna to be elected Phi Beta Kappa, 1902
Chandler, Joan - First African-American woman department head (director of materials distribution) in Medical Center, 1983
Cuninggim, Margaret - First woman to hold the title of dean for student life at Vanderbilt, 1973
Cutter, Emma B. - One of two first faculty women at Peabody, 1875
Dailey, Darlene - One of two first African-American women to graduate from Vanderbilt School of Medicine, 1978
Daughtrey, Martha Craig - First faculty woman at Vanderbilt Law School, 1972. First woman judge in Tennessee (Associate Justice, Court of Criminal Appeals), 1975.
Davis, Henrietta Rose - First woman Director of Personnel, 1977.
Earle, Imogene Phelps - First woman to earn Ph.D. (Biochemistry) at Vanderbilt, 1929
Edwards, Francis - First woman elected president of the Vanderbilt Alumni Association, 1985. (BSN, 1953; MSN, 1976)
Fischer, Charlotte - First woman tenured in Vanderbilt School of Engineering, 1980
Fluker, Sharon - First African-American woman to become an assistant dean of the Vanderbilt Graduate School, 1987
Freeman, Betty - First woman editor of The Hustler, 1942
Gilbreth, Christine Marie - First woman to graduate from Vanderbilt Dental School, 1918
Gray, Susan - Founder and first director of the Peabody Demonstration and Research Center for Early Education, 1966
Haggard, Mary W. - First woman named university registrar at Vanderbilt, 1913
Higgs, Mary Egerton (Skipp) - First woman editor of University Publications, 1977. First director of University Publications, 1978
Holliday, Bertha - First African-American faculty member of Peabody College, 1979
Hunnicutt, Martha E. - First woman winner of the Founder's Medal, 1900
Ingram, Martha R. - First woman to serve as chairman of the Board of Trust, 1999-2011.
Jones, Janice - One of two first African-American woman to graduate from Vanderbilt Medical School, 1978
Jones, Vera Jane - First woman to receive B.E. from the Vanderbilt School of Engineering, 1945
Kachelhoffe, Susie C. - First woman to earn Bachelor of Divinity at Vanderbilt, 1930
Karzon, Allaire Urban - First woman to become tenured at Vanderbilt Law School, 1983
Katahn, Enid - First woman professor at Blair School of Music (professor of piano), 1986
Lee, Eve - First African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt (German), 1974
Loomis, Dorothy Bethurum - First woman editor of The Commodore, 1919
Lupton, Kate - First woman to receive a Vanderbilt degree (Master of Arts), 1879
McFague, Sallie - First woman dean of the Vanderbilt Divinity School and first woman dean of a theological school in the United States, 1975
Martin, Amelia Baskervill - One of the first three undergraduate women elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Vanderbilt, 1902
Maslin, Martha Maney - One of the first three undergraduate women elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Vanderbilt, 1902
Mauksch, Ingebord - First woman awarded an endowed chair at Vanderbilt (Valere Potter Distinguished Professor of Nursing), 1976
Means, Marie Hackle - First woman to earn a Ph.D. from Peabody, 1919
Paschall, Annie - First woman to receive an entering scholarship at Vanderbilt, 1891
Pierce, Pat - First woman director of Vanderbilt Opportunity Development Center, 1981
Poindexter, Portia - First African-American woman to be awarded a graduate degree at Vanderbilt (M.A.T. in History), 1968
Perdue, Bobbi - First African-American woman to graduate from the Vanderbilt School of Nursing, 1970
Quarterman, Elsie - First woman Chair (Department of General Biology), 1964
Ransom, Nancy - First director of the Vanderbilt Women's Center, 1978
Rhea, Linda - First woman to earn a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt, 1933.
Sears, Julia - One of two first faculty women at Peabody, 1875
Shafer, Kim - First woman elected president of the Vanderbilt Student Government Association, 1978
Stahlman, Mildred - First woman to chair the Vanderbilt Faculty Senate, 1974
Stapleton, Ada Belle - First dean of women and first woman appointed professor of English at Vanderbilt, 1925
Titus, Shirley C. - First dean of the Vanderbilt School of Nursing, 1930
Tuttle, Daisy - One of the first three undergraduate women elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Vanderbilt, 1902
Werthen, Mary Jane - First woman on the Vanderbilt Board of Trust, 1964
Wolfe, Marice - First woman named University Archivist at Vanderbilt, 1973
Wynn, Lillian - First African-American to graduate from the Vanderbilt Divinity School, 1980
Zibart, Ruth G. - First woman named associate dean of the Vanderbilt College of Arts and Sciences, 1973