Millicent Carey McIntosh

Millicent Carey McIntosh (November 30, 1898 – January 3, 2001) was an educational administrator and American feminist who led the Brearley School from 1930 to 1947, and Barnard College from 1947 to 1962. The first married woman to head one of the Seven Sisters, she was "considered a national role model for generations of young women who wanted to combine career and family," advocating for working mothers and for child care as a dignified profession.

Early life McIntosh was born in Baltimore, Maryland on November 30, 1898 to Anthony Morris Carey and Margaret Cheston Thomas, both active Quakers. She was also a Quaker. Her mother was in the first graduating class of Bryn Mawr College in 1889. Her aunt, M. Carey Thomas, also a leader in women's education, founded the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore and served as the president of Bryn Mawr College.

Barnard career McIntosh became Dean of Barnard College in 1947, and became the institution's first President in 1952. As the president, McIntosh doubled Barnard's endowment and was able to increase faculty salaries by initiating Operation Bootstrap, a campaign that solicited funding from alumnae and donors like John D. Rockefeller. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1966. McIntosh also volunteered as a trustee of the New York Public Library, and was the first woman to sit on the board of CBS.

In 1992, she received the Barnard College Medal of Distinction.