Smyth Leadership Lecture Series

The Smyth Leadership Lecture Series is made possible by the Smyth Foundation, an organization established by former Mary Baldwin College Trustee H. Gordon Smyth and his wife Mary Beth Smyth (MBC '47).

Past Smyth Lecturers:

Venus Williams  
2007
Venus Williams
Tennis Sensation
 
Benazir Bhutto Mary Robinson

2006
Benazir Bhutto

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan

2005
Mary Robinson

Former President of Ireland
Judy Galloway Dominique Dawes

2004
Judy Galloway '69

President of New York City-based marketing company The Young Group

2003
Dominique Dawes
Former U.S. Olympic gymnast
Mary Catherine Bateson Jean Sherman Chatzky
2002
Mary Catherine Bateson

Clarence J. Robinson professor of anthropology and English at George Mason University
2001
Jean Sherman Chatzky
journalist, author, editor
Cokie Roberts
Louise McNamee
2000
Cokie Roberts
political commentator for National Public Radio and ABC
1999
Louise Rossett McNamee '70

advertising executive, named "Leader and Legend" by AdWeek magazine
Mae Jemison Geraldine Ferraro
1998
Mae C. Jemison

first African-American woman to go into space
1997
Geraldine A. Ferraro
former U.S. congresswoman and first woman nominated for vice president by a major party