Hettie Simmons Love

Hettie Simmons Love (October 29, 1922 – July 14, 2023) was one of the first African-Americans to earn a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from any Ivy League University. She graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1947.

Biography Born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1922, Hettie Simmons Love attended Fisk University and graduated in 1943. She then attended Penn's Wharton School, graduating with her MBA on June 18, 1947. The Wharton School honored her later that year at its annual Whitney M. Young Conference, in December 2016. The Loves later moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where George supervised the desegregation of schools, and where they raised their children. They were married 66 years until his death in 2014.

Simmons Love turned 100 on October 29, 2022, and died at her home on July 14, 2023.