Notable Alumni


Connecticut College alumni have excelled in fields from medicine to the media. This is a representative sampling of those whose achievements are especially notable.

Tim Armstrong '93
AOL, chair and CEO

Jim Berrien '74
G100 Network, president; Forbes Magazine Group, 1999-2009; chair of the College Board of Trustees. 2009-2012

Ted Chapin '72
Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, president/executive director

Peggy Charren '49
Action for Children's Television, founder

Charles Chun '90
Actor

Karen Church '90
CBS Television, vice president for talent and casting

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Alec Ounsworth '00, Lee Sargent '00, Robbie Guertin '02, Tyler Sargent '00 and Sean Greenhalgh '02) Musicians

Michael Collier '76
Poet, director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at Middlebury College

Sloane Crosley '00
Writer and essayist

Anita DeFrantz '74
Olympic medalist, rowing; vice president of the International Olympic Committee

David Dorfman '81
Dancer, professor of dance at Connecticut College

Lee Eisenberg '99
Television screenwriter
(The Office )

Vincent Farrell '96
Digital media expert; Havas Worldwide, global chief content officer

Sean Fine '96
Sundance and Academy-Award-winning documentary filmmaker
(War/Dance,  Inocente)

David Foster '77
Director of the Harvard Forest

Susan Froshauer '74
Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, president and CEO

Marie L. Garibaldi '56
First woman to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court

Chris Gifford '81
Executive producer, creator of Nick Jr.'s "Dora the Explorer"

Vance Gilbert '79
Musician

Joshua Green '94
Senior editor, The Atlantic Monthly

Amy Gross '63
O, The Oprah Magazine,
Editor-in-chief, 2000-08

David Gross '88
Commissioner of Major League Lacrosse

Agnes Gund '60
Museum of Modern Art, president emerita

Dorcas Hardy '68
Commissioner of the Social Security Administration 1986-89

David Haussler '77
University of California - Santa Cruz, director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering

Bruce Hoffman '76
Terrorism expert

Judy Irving '68
Emmy award and Sundance-winning filmmaker

LaShawn R. Jefferson '88
Human Rights Watch, former executive director, women's rights division

Drew Ketterer '71
Attorney general, Maine, 1995-2000

Barbara Shattuck Kohn '72
Principal, Shattuck Hammond Partners, and former chair of the College Board of Trustees

Susan Kronick '73
Federated Department Stores, vice chair

Jay Lauf '86
Publisher, The Atlantic

Linda Lear '62
Author, environmentalist

Andre Lee '93
Film producer

Trish May '75
Venture philanthropist; Athena Partners, founder and CEO

Laurie Norton Moffat '78
Director/CEO, Norman Rockwell Museum

Harvey Moseley '72
Senior astrophysicist, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

Suzi Oppenheimer '56
New York state senator

Leland Orser '82
Actor

Estelle Parsons '49
Academy Award-winning actor

Mary Lake Polan '65
Stanford University School of Medicine, chair and professor emeritus, department of gynecology and obstetrics

Christof Putzel '01
Broadcast journalist, winner of student Academy Award for AIDS documentary, Left Behind.

Luanne Rice '77
Novelist (Sandcastles, Beach Girls)

Peter Som '93
Fashion designer

A.B. Stoddard '89
Journalist, political commentator

Sally Susman '84
Pfizer Inc., senior vice president & chief communications officer

Susan Thomases '65
Attorney, former presidential adviser

Ellen R. Vitetta '64
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, director of the Cancer Immunobiology Center

Jessie Vogelson '96
Film and television producer
(No End in Sight)

Kevin Wade '76
Screenwriter (Working Girl, Meet Joe Black)

Patricia Wald '48
Federal Judge, retired; member of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and member of the Iraq Intelligence Commission

Marion Rockefeller Weber '60
Philanthropist and initiator of the Flow Fund Circle

Kimberly Williams '90
NFL Network, chief operating officer

Tim Young '92
Olympic medalist, sculling