University Communications Emory's Rosalynn Carter Distinguished Fellows Discuss Their Experiences as "Women Making a Difference" WHO: The Rosalynn Carter Fellows of the Emory Institute for Women's Studies: Frank Mays Hull, judge of the Eleventh U.S. Court of Appeals; Rita Jackson Samuels, founder of the Georgia Coalition of Black Women; and Alicia Philipp; president of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc. WHAT: "Women Making A Difference," a panel discussion by Atlanta women working in public policy about leadership and community service. WHEN: 8 p.m., Thursday, March 23 WHERE: Dobbs University Center, Faculty Dining Room, 605 Asbury Circle, Emory. COST: Free and open to the public. For more information, call 404-727-0096. For a map of campus, go on-line to www.emory.edu/MAP/. Rosalynn Carter has been a distinguished fellow of the Emory Institute for Women's Studies since 1989, and in that capacity she has worked to generate programs centered around public policy. One such program is the Rosalynn Carter Honorary Fellows, a group of local women serving three-year terms who have distinguished themselves as leaders in public policy. The 2000-2002 honorary fellows will kick off their term with an informal panel discussion titled "Women Making A Difference." Frank Hull was appointed by President Clinton to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in 1997. Prior to her appointment, she served as a trial judge for 14 years. Hull was a trial attorney with Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy in Atlanta for 10 years, where she became the first female partner in 1980 of the then 150-lawyer firm. Hull previously served on the State of Georgia's Commission on Family Violence. In 1993 as superior court judge, she piloted a volunteer probation officer program for first-time, non-violent offenders with the Atlanta Project's Washington Cluster that was modeled after a long-running program in Cobb County. Hull graduated cum laude from the Emory University School of Law in 1973, and she has been honored with distinguished alumna achievement awards from Emory and Randolph Macon Woman's College. A graduate of Leadership Atlanta, she is the recipient of the Honorable Romae Turner Powell Judicial Service Award from the Atlanta Bar Association's Judicial Section and the Ogden Doremus Judicial Service Award from the Georgia Council of State Court Judges. Alicia Philipp has been the executive director of The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc. (formerly the Metropolitan Atlanta Community Foundation) since 1977 when she took the helm at age 23. Under her leadership, The Community Foundation, which links non-profit organizations with potential donors, became the first major charitable organization in Atlanta to make grants to groups assisting individuals with AIDS. Through foundation grants, she has sought to foster the economic and social betterment of the city's multicultural population. At the time Philipp joined the organization it was experiencing little financial growth, but through her leadership assets have grown from $7 million to more than $160 million. In the past year alone it has awarded grants of more than $17 million. Noted in Georgia Trend Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Georgians, Philipp also is an Emory graduate. She received her B. A. in political science in 1975 and went on to obtain her M.B.A. from Georgia State University in 1982. Rita Jackson Samuels is the founder of the Georgia Coalition of Black Women, Inc., a women's advocacy training and development organization, and has served as the organization's executive director since 1980. She advocates for leadership training and citizenship education for disadvantaged women and girls, and also is a member of the Georgia Commission on Women. She was considered by the Macon Informer to be one of the 50 most influential black women in Georgia. Coordinator of then Gov. Jimmy Carter's Council on Human Relations in 1971, Samuels was the first black woman to serve on the personal staff of a Georgia governor and the first African American honored with the task of directing and coordinating the hanging of portraits of distinguished individuals in the state capital. She later served as director of the city's Office of Citizens & Community Affairs during Andrew Young's tenure as mayor. She is a former board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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