Notable alumni

Weinberg alumni have been successful wherever they go after graduating from Northwestern.

A few notable alumni:

Madeleine Wing Adler (62) - president, West Chester University
Leigh Alexander (79) - chief marketing officer, Unisys, Blue Bell, PA
H. Keys Allan (68) - owner, SPORTea
Marie Arana (71) - book editor, Washington Post
Lee Phillip Bell (50) - creator, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful
Saul Bellow (37) - Nobel Prize-winning author
Rod Blagojevich (79) - governor of Illinois; former U.S. Congressman
Sara Bloomfield (72) - director, United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC
Kevin Briscoe (97) - political officer, U.S. Embassy in Kuwait
Frederick Brown (62) - president and CEO, Northern Arizona Healthcare; vice chairman of the board of commissioners, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; chair-elect, National Kidney Foundation
Chris Kamm Cairns (71) - executive director of broadband technologies, SBC California
E. Michael Carney III (59) - president, Carney Music
Nick Chabraja (64) - chairman and CEO, General Dynamics
Doug Chamberlin (88) - screenwriter
Douglas Conant (73) - president and CEO, Campbell Soup Co.
Bonnie Swanson Daniels (69) - director, Management Systems International; officer-in-charge of various global USAID projects
Kay Kujala Deaux (63) - distinguished professor of psychology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York; former president, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Terri Dial (71) - former president and CEO, Wells Fargo Bank
Luke Donald (01) - professional golfer
Charles Drueck (67) - surgeon; vice speaker, Illinois State Medical Society; assistant professor of clinical surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine
Paul Edelson (84) - Emmy Award documentary nominee
Louise Evans (49) - named 2001 International Scientist of the Year by the American Biographical Institute's 1000 World Leaders of Scientific Influence
Scott Feeney (87) - country director, the office of the secretary of defense
D. Cameron Findlay (82) - executive vice president and general counsel, Aon Corporation; former Deputy Secretary of Labor
Eli Finkel (97) - assistant professor of psychology, Northwestern University
Charles Flipper (87) - assistant clinical professor of neurology, Olive View UCLA Medical Center
Sharon Foote (89) - associate partner with IBM Business Consulting Services
Christopher Galvin (73) - chairman, NAVTEQ Corp.; former president and CEO, Motorola, Inc.
Alex Garcia (89) - staff photographer for the Chicago Tribune, part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning news team
Jonathan Gary (91) - senior research scientist, Biosite
Lisa Gisvold (92) - consular officer, U.S. Embassy in Venezuela
Michael Gottlieb (99) - U.S. Supreme Court law clerk
Sonya Grier (87) - assistant professor of marketing at Stanford University graduate School of Business
Lee Hanson (68) - associate vice chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis
Brooke Hatton (01) - director of strategic planning, St. Louis Regional Health Commission
Bridgette Heller (83) - former executive vice president, Kraft Foods North America; general manager, coffee division
Lee Huebner (62) - communication studies professor, former Nixon speechwriter and publisher of the International Herald Tribune
Brigid Hughes (94) - executive editor, The Paris Review magazine
Angela Jackson (77) - poet, author, playwright
Jeff Jacobs (92) - director of beverage new business development, Campbell Soup Company
Tim Johnson (83) - film director
Catherine Kaputa (70) - president, Self Brand; adjunct professor, New York University's Stern School of Business
Marc Kirschner (66) - cell biology department chair, Harvard Medical School
Jim Kolbe (65) - U.S. Congressman
Tim Krauskopf (84) - co-founder, Spyglass, Inc.; former vice president, Motorola; CFO, Gemini Traffic Sales
Judy Levering (60) - former president, U.S. Tennis Association
Glenn Loury (72) - Boston University economist
Stephen Malone (94) - employment counsel, National Broadcasting Company
Todd Martin (92) - former professional tennis player
Geoffrey Martineau (89) - chief fraud prevention officer, U.S. Embassy, Guatemala
James McNaught (90) - U.S. State Department officer, Afghanistan
Barry Mizock (69) - associate director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit, John Stroger Hospital in Chicago
Kathy Murphy (88) - senior vice president, Wachovia Bank commercial banking group
John Musker (75) - Disney cartoon director
J. David Nelson (63) - COO, National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, New York City
Dawn Clark Netsch (48) - former state legislator and a key figure in Illinois politics
Daryl Newell (86) - vice president of wealth management area, Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago
Allison Jill Nied (92) - assistant professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx
Brian Nies (97) - resident conductor, Oakland Youth Symphony; Leonard Bernstein Fellowship recipient
David Nissen (73) - president and CEO, GE Consumer Finance
Phyllis Oakley (56) - diplomat, former top intelligence advisor to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
William Osborn (69) - president and CEO, Northern Trust Corporation
Donna Palmer (73) - former publisher, The Atlantic Monthly
Eva Jefferson Paterson (71) - civil rights attorney, former national student leader of peace movement
Amy Percy (98) - associate brand manager, Campbell Soup Company
Dan Pikelny (91) - director of health and productivity, Navistar
John Plaggemeier (63) - former engineering manager, General Motors
Vivek Prachard (90) - assistant professor of surgery, University of Chicago
John Reed (83) - primary care physician; board member, Washington County Health System
Roya Rezaee (90) - vice chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology, Lincoln Park Hospital; assistant professor, Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center
Ralph Rydholm (58) - former chairman and CEO, Euro RSCG Tatham Chicago
James Schadt (60) - vice chairman, Mercator Software; former chairman and CEO, Readers Digest
Deborah Schwartz (77) - deputy director for education, Museum of Modern Art in New York
Kerry Shannon (83) - national director, PricewaterhouseCoopers Healthcare Provider Planning Practice, Chicago
Sidney Sheldon (38) - author
David Skorton (70) - president, Cornell University
Jeanne Sparrow (91) - television reporter/producer and radio personality, Midwest Emmy Award winner
Christine Stephens (91) - assistant state's attorney, Cook County office
Mark Stovsky (86) - urologist; assistant professor of urology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; chief of urology, University Hospitals Health Systems in Richmond Heights, Ohio
Rick Sund (73) - general manager of the Seattle Supersonics basketball team
Howard Traisman (43) - pediatrician; professor, Feinberg School of Medicine
Shane Tritsch (83) - managing editor, Chicago magazine
Howard Tullman (67) - president, Kendall College
Karen Turner (77) - deputy assistant administrator, State Department Bureau for Asia and the Near East
Edward Weiler (71) - director, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Fred "The Hammer" Williamson (60) - actor
Lisa Wissner-Slivka (85) - former program manager and product manager, Microsoft Corporation
Joseph A. Walder (73) - professor of biochemistry, University of Iowa; founder and CEO, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT)
Paul Winter (61) - musician; founder, Paul Winter Consort
Peter Yeh (90) - founder, Gulf Coast Brain and Spine Institute
Kathleen Rathbun Zubel (98) - orchestra director, Tucson Unified School District