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Judith Aitken Ramaley (born 1941) is an American biologist and academic administrator who has served as president of several colleges and universities...

following year the family moved to rural Aitkin County, where they lived in a house that they had built themselves on 40 acres. The house did not have electricity...

career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations...

and attorney who served as the 38th governor of Oregon from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she served three terms as the state representative...

This is a list of University of Albany people. Phoebe Adams (MFA 1978), painter and sculptor Sally Sheinman, painter, installation artist, digital artist...

Van Dyke Beasley, a delivery man, and Mildred Washington Beasley, who was 16 years old. Myrlie's parents separated when she was just a year old; her mother...

born December 21, 1936) is an American politician from the state of Oregon. A native of the state, she served as the 34th Governor of Oregon from 1991 to...

Gertrude Boyle (née Lamfrom; March 6, 1924 – November 3, 2019) was a German-born American businesswoman in the U.S. state of Oregon. After her family...

the family of four fled over the Pyrenees Mountains to Spain on foot. After a time the family was able to emigrate to the United States, sailing on the...

Academy, a Catholic girls high school. She studied as a Ford Independent Studies scholar at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, graduating with a B.A. in...

Susan Jane Helms (born February 26, 1958) is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general and NASA astronaut. She was the commander, 14th Air...

Joseph C. Blumel, 1974–1986 Natale A. Sicuro, 1986–1988 Roger N. Edgington (Interim President), 1988–1990 Judith A. Ramaley, 1990–1997 Daniel O. Bernstine...

Pacific Northwest. She is the namesake of the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, a performing arts center in Portland, Oregon. Schnitzer was born to Simon and...

Oregon. A native Oregonian, she has served as a state court judge of the Oregon circuit courts and worked in private legal practice. She is a senior United...

president of Howard University in Washington, D.C., from 1995 until 2008. He is a graduate of South Philadelphia High School and has been inducted into the...

Beverly A. Clarno (born March 29, 1936) is an American politician who served as the 27th Oregon Secretary of State from 2019 to 2021. She was the only...

Oregon, to a mother active in local leadership within the Order of the Eastern Star and a father who worked for the railroad. Her father was a strict authoritarian...

in Iran, teaching English as a Peace Corps volunteer. They returned to Portland in 1967, and Gretchen Kafoury became a teacher at Portland State University...

Oregon. A native of Nebraska, she was raised in Eastern Oregon before becoming a lawyer. A Republican, she first held political office as a representative...

University of Vermont, located in Burlington, Vermont, a post he held from July 1, 2002 to July 31, 2011. A native of Columbus, Ohio, he was raised in Ithaca...