Administration •
Jo Allen, president (2011–2024) •
E. Bruce Heilman, president (1966–1971) •
Thomas Meredith, founding figure and namesake •
Leonidas L. Polk, founding figure •
Hoyt Patrick Taylor, former trustee
Alumnae •
Carrie Lougee Broughton, North Carolina State Librarian •
Margaret Currin, first woman U.S. attorney in North Carolina, class of 1972 •
Addie Elizabeth Davis, first woman ordained as a Southern Baptist pastor. •
Eleanor Layfield Davis, artist; class of 1932 •
Annie Dove Denmark, fifth president of
Anderson University •
Susan Hill, women's rights advocate • Eleanor Hines (known professionally as
Margaret Arlen), talk show host •
Roxie Collie Laybourne, ornithologist •
Beth Leavel,
Tony Award winning
musical theatre actor •
Lucile Aycock McKee, socialite, president of the
Junior League of Raleigh •
Dale Mercer, interior designer, television personality, and socialite •
Elizabeth Reid Murray, historian, preservationist, and member of the
Raleigh City Council •
Sarah Parker, former Chief Justice of the
North Carolina Supreme Court •
Suzanne Reynolds, law professor and North Carolina Supreme Court candidate •
Silda Wall Spitzer, chair of Children for Children and former
First Lady of
New York •
Patricia N. Willoughby, former interim
North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction •
Adrian H. Wood, educator, blogger, and writer •
Judy Woodruff, journalist
Faculty •
Louise Hawes, writer and former guest lecturer •
Thomas C. Parramore, historian and noted North Carolina scholar •
Arthur Poister,
organist •
Ida Isabella Poteat, painter •
Charlotte Ruegger, composer and violinist; music department chair •
Marion Elizabeth Stark, mathematician •
Lillian Frances Parker Wallace, historian ==See also==