Simmons alumnae include: •
Emily Banks, class of 1959, actress
Shore Leave and model
Miss Rheingold •
Susan Porter Benson (1943–2005), historian •
Julie Berry (author), children's author •
Lenore Blum (born 1942), computer scientist and mathematician •
Kristin Cashore, author •
Margaret Curtis (1883–1965), social worker and athlete •
Jahaira DeAlto (died 2021), social worker, lgbt activist, and domestic violence victims' advocate •
Denise Di Novi (born 1956), film producer •
Barbara Clark Elam (1929–2017) •
Rehema Ellis, NBC News correspondent •
Jessica Fay, politician •
Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee (1898–1980), class of 1920, African-American physician and activist •
David S. Ferriero (born 1949) 10th
Archivist of the United States •
Nnenna Freelon (born 1954), jazz singer •
Ann M. Fudge, businesswoman, former CEO of
Young & Rubicam •
Tipper Gore (born 1947), attended (Garland Junior College), former Second Lady of the United States •
Eolyn Klugh Guy, social worker associated with
YWCA •
Christine Heppermann, author and poet •
Theodora Kimball Hubbard, landscape architect, librarian •
Marjorie Hulsizer Copher, dietitian who served in
World War I •
Gwen Ifill (1955–2016), class of 1977, journalist, television newscaster and author •
Louise Andrews Kent (1886–1969), author •
Megan Dowd Lambert, children's book author and academic, Master of Arts degree (2002) •
Mackenzi Lee, author •
Gail Levin, class of 1969, art historian •
Elinor Lipman (born 1950), novelist •
Bertha Mahony (1882–1969), founder of
The Horn Book Magazine •
Barbara Margolis (1929–2009),
prisoners' rights advocate who served as the official greeter of
New York City •
Susan K. Martin (1965), librarian •
Hannah M. McCarthy, college administrator and businessperson •
Cheyney McKnight, historical interpreter •
Jeffrey Mello,
Episcopal priest (
Bishop of Connecticut) •
Eleanor Milleville (1922–1991), American sculptor •
Catherine N. Norton (1941–2014), American librarian •
Sondra Perl, Professor
Emerita of
English at
Lehman College and director of the Ph.D. in
Composition and Rhetoric at the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York •
Bertha Reynolds, American social worker •
Srinagarindra (1900–1995), Princess Mother of
Thailand •
Mabel Leilani Smyth, Director of the Public Nursing Service for the Territory of Hawaii •
Valerie Thomas, scientist and inventor •
Susan Traverso (1983), president of
Thiel College, former provost of
Elizabethtown College •
Suzyn Waldman,
color commentator for the
New York Yankees •
Allyson Schwartz, class of 1970, U.S. Representative
Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district 2004– •
Doris L. Thompson, class of 1927, New Hampshire representative •
Anne Williams Wheaton, class of 1912, publicist and first White House Associate Press Secretary •
Esther M. Wilkins (1916–2016), class of 1938, pioneer in the field of dental hygiene, teacher, and author of
Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist •
Mary Elizabeth Wood, 1861–1931, librarian and lay missionary who actively promoted Chinese early education and librarianship •
Alex Wright, American writer and
information architect •
Nancy Ip, President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology •
Aline A. Yamashita, Guamanian educator and politician •
Jill Zarin (born 1963), reality television personality ==Notable faculty==