Jean Andrus Crockett

She was the first female department chair at Wharton, the first woman to lead the Faculty Senate, and the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Crockett, who died in 1998, was a scholar of consumption and savings, investment, financial interest rates, markets, and the economics of health care. She was promoted to full professor in 1966 and named chairwoman of the finance department in 1977. Crockett served as a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from 1977 to 1982, and was appointed chairwoman of the regional bank in 1982.