History of Iowa State: People of Distinction

Mary Beaumont Welch, 1868-1883

Maria Elizabeth Hotchkiss Knapp, 1883-1884

Jessie Noble Hunt, 1885-1886

Lucy Jones Marshall Chamberlain, 1886-1890

Josephine Mudhenk Beardshear, 1891-1902

Lovie Whitcomb Storms, 1903-1910

Alice Dunsford Pearson, 1915-1926

Ella Rogers Hughes, 1927-1933

Vera Foreman Friley, 1936-1947

Magdelen Ranney Friley, 1951-1953

Lois Baker Hilton, 1953-1965

Ellen Sorge Parks, 1965-1986

Virginia Gregory Eaton, 1986-1990

Patricia Fowler Jischke, 1991-2000

Kathleen Carothers Geoffroy, 2001-2012

Janet A. Leath, 2012-present