Lee Stuart Cochran
Distinguished Graduates
From the arts to the laboratory and from the classroom to the boardroom, Hollins graduates have had a positive and lasting influence on our communities, our nation, and our world. Meet some of the innovators, pioneers, and creative forces who were empowered by the liberal arts education they received at Hollins to go places and make a difference.
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Graduate Name | Class Year | Last Name While at Hollins |
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![]() Evelyn Julia “Judy” LambethLambeth received her J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1977. She served as in-house counsel to three Fortune 500 companies—DuPont, ConocoPhillips, and Reynolds American. Her legal career has included a wide range of assignments in corporate, commercial, environmental, and international law and litigation. She began her career with the DuPont Company in 1977,… |
1973 |
Lambeth |
![]() Wendy Urschel LarsenLarsen’s area of specialty in law is in land use planning, environmental preservation, and urban and community growth management. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and earned a bachelor of divinity degree from the University of Chicago. In 1973, she earned a J.D. from DePaul University College of Law. Now a director with Gray Robinson, Attorneys at Law,… |
1965 |
Urschel |
![]() Carol Lawrence-BeswickLawrence-Beswick is a Supreme Court justice in her native country of Jamaica. She earned her LL.B. from the University of the West Indies in 1977 and began practicing law. As an assistant director of public prosecutors, the Jamaica equivalent of the district attorney’s office, she prosecuted major crimes. She was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2001,… |
1973 |
Lawrence |
![]() Anna Logan LawsonLawson received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Virginia. She has been a consultant for the Kettering Foundation; president of the Alumnae Board Association; and chair of the Hollins Board of Trustees. She has served on the boards of North Cross School, Total Action Against Poverty (chair), Family Service of the Roanoke Valley (president),… |
1965, M.A. '70 |
Logan |
![]() Courtney S. Legum-WenkLegum-Wenk obtained her M.A. in bioethics from the University of Virginia in 2004 before proceeding to the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she received her D.O. in 2008. In 2012, she completed her obstetrics and gynecology residency training at Memorial Health Medical Center, through Mercer University in Savannah, Georgia. She obtained her board certification through the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is currently in private practice at Commonwealth OB/GYN Specialists in Richmond.… |
2003 |
Legum |
![]() Cecelia LongLong received an M.A. in social work from the University of Michigan. She was executive director at Marcy Manor, Inc., in Dayton, Ohio, and before that was a member of the General Secretariat of the General Commission on the Status and Role of Women for the United Methodist Church. She also served as a corporate executive for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.… |
1970 |
Long |
![]() Elizabeth Valk LongLong retired from Time Inc. in 2001. She had been executive vice president with senior management responsibility for consumer marketing, customer service, newsstand distribution, production, human resources, legal affairs, and corporate communications. She was the first woman to be named publisher of any Time Inc. magazine when she was named publisher of Life in 1986.… |
1972 |
Valk |
![]() Linda Koch LorimerLorimer retired from Yale in May 2016 after 32 years serving the university. She was a trustee and vice president for 21 years, which included serving as vice president for global and strategic affairs. She was also president of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College for more than six years. She was a director of McGraw-Hill, Inc., for 20 years and served as its presiding director for five years.… |
1974 |
Koch |
![]() M. Brinton LykesLykes earned a master’s degree of divinity from Harvard, followed by a doctorate in community and social psychology from Boston College in 1984. She is associate director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice and professor of community cultural psychology at Boston College. The American Psychological Association honored her achievements three years in a row with the Ignacio Martín-Baró Lifetime Peace Practitioner Award in 2012,… |
1970 |
Lykes |