Girl Scouting teaches empowerment and encourages young women to be all that they can be. Evidence of the positive and life-changing experience Girl Scouting has had on women can be found long after their days of selling cookies has passed. Whether they’ve grown to become a doctor, teacher, mother or judge, we all share a common influence – the lessons we learned at an impressionable young age, as taught by Girl Scout role models. The fact that some of our nation’s brightest stars are former Girl Scouts is no coincidence!
This list of Girl Scout alumnae includes many successful women in many different fields. An amazing 64% percent of today’s women leaders in the United States (civic, corporate, political, etc.) were once Girl Scouts!
Academics
Sian Leah Beilock, President, Barnard College
Amy Gutmann, President, University of Pennsylvania
Kathleen McCartney, President, Smith College
Lynn Pasquerella, President, Mount Holyoke College
Christina Paxson, President, Brown University
Activists
Angela Davis
Melinda French Gates
Marian Wright Edelman
Dolores Huerta
Gloria Steinem
Danni Washington
Athletes
Haley Carter
Lynn Colella
Adeline Gray
Bethany Hamilton
Florence Griffith Joyner
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Billie Jean King
Lisa Leslie
Tatyana McFadden
Alysia Montaño
Venus Williams
Actors, Producers & Directors
Uzo Aduba
Tyra Banks
Kristen Bell
Abigail Breslin
Sofia Coppola
Fran Drescher
Dakota Fanning
Carrie Fisher
Grace Kelly
Karlie Kloss
Keke Palmer
Gwyneth Paltrow
Debbie Reynolds
Tracee Ellis Ross
Reese Witherspoon
Writers
Rachel Cargle
Brittney Cooper
Sue Monk Kidd
Carmen Maria Machado
Sylvia Plath
Comediennes
Lucille Ball
Ellen DeGeneres
Paige DeSorbo
Fortune Feimster
Amy Poehler
Amy Sedaris
Journalists
Maile Carpenter
Katie Couric
Jessica Cruel
Dylan Dreyer
Savannah Guthrie
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Jo Ling Kent
Gayle King
Lisa Ling
Natalie Morales
Robin Roberts
Barbara Walters
Judy Woodruff
Business Leaders
Mary Barra
Safra Catz
Christine Duffy
Marillyn Hewson
Marissa Mayer
Andi Owen
Ginni Rometty
Sheryl Sandberg
Kendra Scott
Jill Soltau
Martha Stewart
Susan Wojcicki
Chefs/Food Personalities
Carla Hall
Jessica Koslow
Katie Lee
Vallery Lomas
Samin Nosrat
Christina Tosi
Virginia Willis
Astronauts
Serena Auñón-Chancellor
Kayla Barron
Laurel Clark
Eileen Collins
Nancy J. Currie-Gregg
Jan Davis
Anna Fisher
Susan Helms
Joan Higginbotham
Kathryn P. Hire
Tamara Jernigan
Susan L. Kilrain
Christina Koch
Wendy B. Lawrence
Sandra H. Magnus
Nicole Aunapu Mann
K. Megan McArthur
Jessica Meir
Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger
Barbara R. Morgan
Lisa M. Nowak
Loral O’Hara
Kathleen Rubins
Margaret Rhea Seddon
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
Kathryn Sullivan
Kathryn Thornton
Jessica Watkins
Mary Ellen Weber
Sunita Williams
National Leaders
Jill Biden, First Lady of the United States
Laura Bush, Former First Lady
Hillary Clinton, Former Secretary of State, Senator, and First Lady
Marcia Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Nikki Haley, Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Governor of South Carolina
Laura Kelly, Governor of Kansas
Michelle Lujan Grisham, Governor of New Mexico
Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce
Kim Reynolds, Governor of Iowa
Condoleezza Rice, Former Secretary of State
Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan
Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army
Musicians
Mariah Carey
Kelly Clarkson
Sheryl Crow
Queen Latifah
Madonna
Natalie Merchant
Kacey Musgraves
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood
Dionne Warwick
Vanessa Williams
Scientists
Frances Arnold
Katy Croff Bell
Cynthia Breazeal
Mary (Missy) Cummings
Judith Curry
Sylvia Earle
Sandra Faber
Beverly Goodman
M Jackson
Terri Jump
Mary-Claire King
Lisa C. Klein
Caroline Klivans
Andrea Marshall
Marcia McNutt
Maureen E. Raymo
Sheila E. Widnall
Entrepreneurs
Katia Beauchamp
Pamela Bell
Rachel Blumenthal
Natasha Case
Alexandra Cavoulacos
Elizabeth Cutler
Sarah Kauss
Sallie Krawcheck
Sarah LaFleur
Melissa Mash
Carrie Morey
Brit Morin
Ashley Rouse
Monica Royer
Christina Funke Tegbe
Sarah Gibson Tuttle
