1997

Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State

1996

Donna Shalala, U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services

1995

Ann Richards, Former Governor of Texas

1994

Nita Lowey, Congresswoman, New York

1993

Judith Kurland, Commissioner of Health, Massachusetts

1992

Pat Schroeder, Congresswoman, Colorado

1991

Evelyn Fox Keller, scientist and philosopher

1990

Wendy Wasserstein '71 MHC, playwright

1989

Glenn Close, actress

1988

Joseph Brodsky, 1987 Nobel Prize Winner

1987

Maya Angelou, poet, playwright, songwriter, performer