Early life Leslie Parker Hume graduated from
Radcliffe College in
Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1969, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. She received a master's degree in 1971 and a PhD in 1979 from
Stanford University in
Stanford, California.
Scholarly career She edited a volume about women during the Victorian era in 1981 and wrote a book about women's suffrage societies from 1897 to 1914 in 1982.
Philanthropy She has served on the Boards of Trustees of
The San Francisco Foundation, the
San Francisco Opera,
Summerbridge National, and the
Bay Area Discovery Museum. She was a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the
San Francisco Day School, where she served as its President. She serves co-Chair the 2013-2014 Advisory Council of Stanford Live, the performing arts organization at Stanford. With her husband, she endowed some fellowships for undergraduate students at Stanford University. They also endowed the
Hume Center for Writing and Speaking at Stanford University.
Personal life She is married to
George H. Hume, a businessman, philanthropist, and heir to the
Basic American Foods fortune. They have a son and a daughter. ==Bibliography==