19 Notable alumni of Scripps College
Updated: June 15, 2026 EliteDegrees
Scripps College is ranked #2,690 in the world and #697 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 19 notable alumni from Scripps College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Scripps College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Judith Keep
1944-2004 (aged 60)
lawyer
judge
Judith Nelsen Keep was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
2. Suzanne Muchnic
1940-. (aged 86)
opinion journalist
art critic
writer
journalist
art historian
Suzanne Muchnic is an art writer who was a staff art reporter and art critic at the Los Angeles Times for 31 years. She has also written books on artists, collectors, and museums.
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3. Margaret Dilloway
novelist
Margaret Dilloway is a Japanese American author best known for her novels How To Be An American Housewife and The Care And Handling Of Roses With Thorns.
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4. Karen I. Tse
1964-. (aged 62)
Karen Irene Tse is a Swiss American of Chinese descent, and lives in Geneva. Tse is primarily concerned with human rights and is the founder and CEO of the global non-profit International Bridges to Justice which advocates for legal rights in more than 50 developing countries.
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5. Jack Zajac
1929-. (aged 97)
draftsperson
sculptor
Jack Zajac is a Californian West Coast artist who has been concerned with the “Romantic Surrealist tradition”.
6. Elizabeth Turk
1961-. (aged 65)
video artist
sculptor
Elizabeth Turk is an artist and native Californian known for her marble sculptures and community installations. She splits time between a studio in Santa Ana, CA and NYC, where she has been represented by Hirschl & Adler Modern since her first exhibition in 2000. She is a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, an Annalee & Barnett Newman...
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7. Anne Hopkins Aitken
1911-1994 (aged 83)
writer
Anne Arundel Hopkins Aitken was an American Zen Buddhist, in the Harada-Yasutani lineage. She co-founded the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in 1959 together with her husband, Robert Baker Aitken. She purchased both of its properties: the Koko An Zendo and Maui Zendo. Honolulu Diamond Sangha has been considered "one of several pivotal Buddhist organizations critical to the development of Zen" in...
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8. Margaret Hance
1923-1990 (aged 67)
politician
Margaret Taylor Hance served as mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, between 1976 and 1984, winning four consecutive two year terms. Hance was the first woman to hold the office.
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9. Lisa Adams
1955-. (aged 71)
painter
Lisa Adams is an American painter who emerged in the mid-1980s. She is best known for her oil paintings of imaginary worlds that address both personal and collective realities. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the public collections of LACMA, Eli Broad (corporate collection), the Denver Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, the...
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10. Hannah-Beth Jackson
1950-. (aged 76)
politician
Hannah-Beth Jackson is an American politician who served in the California State Senate from 2012 to 2020. A Democrat, she represented the 19th Senate District, encompassing Santa Barbara County and most of Ventura County.
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11. Susan G. Finley
engineer
Susan G. Finley, a native Californian, has been an employee of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory since January 1958, making her the longest-serving woman in NASA. Two days before Explorer 1 was launched, Finley began her career with the laboratory as a human computer, calculating rocket launch trajectories by hand. She now serves as a subsystem engineer for NASA's Deep Space...
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12. Pae White
1963-. (aged 63)
printmaker
sculptor
textile artist
artist
installation artist
Pae White is an American multimedia visual artist known for her unique portrayal of nature and mundane objects through her creations of suspended mobiles. She currently lives and works between Sonoma County and Los Angeles, California.
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13. Ellen Rosenblum
1951-. (aged 75)
lawyer
judge
politician
Ellen F. Rosenblum is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 17th Oregon Attorney General from June 2012 to December 2024. She is the first female state attorney general in Oregon's history, and previously was a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 2005 to 2011.
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14. Alison Saar
1956-. (aged 70)
painter
printmaker
installation artist
sculptor
illustrator
Alison Saar is a Los Angeles-based sculptor, mixed-media, and installation artist. Her artwork focuses on the African diaspora and black female identity and is influenced by African, Caribbean, and Latin American folk art and spirituality. Saar is well known for "transforming found objects to reflect themes of cultural and social identity, history, and religion." Saar credits her parents, collagist and...
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15. Serena Altschul
1970-. (aged 56)
journalist
Serena Altschul is an American broadcast journalist, known for her work at MTV News and CBS.
16. Eva Rubinstein
1933-. (aged 93)
photographer
ballet dancer
Eva Rubinstein is a Polish-American photographer whose artistic works present portraits, nudes and interiors, often taken in Europe as well as the United States.
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17. Gabby Giffords
1970-. (aged 56)
politician
gun control activist
entrepreneur
analyst
businessperson
Gabrielle Dee Giffords is an American retired politician and gun violence prevention advocate. She served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Arizona's 8th congressional district from January 2007 until January 2012, when she resigned because of a severe brain injury suffered during an assassination attempt. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the third...
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18. Matthew Logelin
1977-. (aged 49)
writer
Matthew Logelin is an American author, blogger, public speaker, and charity founder. In 2011, he published Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love, which was a New York Times Best Seller. His blog, Matt, Liz and Madeline: Life and Death, All in a 27-Hour Period, received over 40,000 hits per day at its height in 2008. Both...
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19. Yoshiko Shimada
1959-. (aged 67)
photographer
television producer
Yoshiko Shimada is a Japanese printmaker and performance artist who has been referred to as "Japan’s premier feminist and antiwar artist."