Judith Klinman (b. 1941) received her A.B. (1962) and her Ph.D. (1966) in Physical-Organic Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania (1966). Klinman joined the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia, where she was a research scientist from 1968 to 1978. She became the first woman professor (1978- ) in the chemistry department of the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Klinman also served as the first woman Department Chair (2000-2003). She is currently a professor of chemistry and of molecular and cell biology.
Mary Singleton (b. 1936) received her B.S. (1958) in Chemistry from Wheaton College and her M.S. (1960) in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1960-1962 she worked with Melvin Calvin, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1961, at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1962 she left Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and for the next twelve years she raised her children and moved to Europe, Wisconsin and California as her husband's job required. Singleton began working again (1974-1998) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, where she worked for twenty-two years. Most of her career was in research, including tritium-getter materials, oil shale processing, and growth of nonlinear optical crystals for the LLNL laser project. In 1998 Singleton was among five other female employees of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who filed a lawsuit against the Lab on December 23, 1998. She negotiated a separate agreement after her retirement.
Martha Casey (b. 1942) received her A.B. (1964) in Chemistry from Bryn Mawr College and her Ph.D. (1968) in Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her thesis under the direction of Professor Daniel S. Kemp was entitled "Base Catalyzed Decomposition of Substituted Benzisoxazoles: A Re-evaluation of the Significance of the Value." She held postdoctoral and lecturer positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and served in several senior administrator posts (1974-2003).
Sue M. Hanlon received her B.S. (1954) from Louisiana State University and a PhD (1961) from the University of California, Berkeley in Biochemistry. She is currently a Professor Emeritus Professor Emeritus for the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics (University of Illinois at Chicago) where she served 1966-1998.
