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Image of Jean Andrus Crockett

1954

Jean Andrus Crockett was the first female department chair at Wharton, the first woman to lead the Penn Faculty Senate, and the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. In 1989, she received the University’s Distinguished Faculty Award for “pioneering all-University leadership and for dedication to furthering the careers of junior colleagues and graduate students.”