Judith Aitken Ramaley

(1941- ) lived in Omaha and Lincoln. Biologist, educator, administrator, as president of Portland State University from 1990 to 1997, she was Oregon's first woman president of a state higher education institution, and reformed the undergraduate curriculum, doubled the amount of outside funding, and transformed the institution into a national model of an urban university, then became president of the University of Vermont until 2001, where she introduced idea of the Community Service Scholars' Program and expanded the University's role in the lives of all state residents; previously she was known as an endocrinologist specializing in the physiology of puberty and fertility, and an advocate of reform in higher education. Consult Martha J. Bailey, American Women in Science: 1950 to the Present (ABC-CLIO, 1998) 317-318 and Who's Who in America, Vol 2 (2003) 4287.

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