Amy Gutmann

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8th President of the University of Pennsylvania
Amy Gutmann
Term	2004 – present
Predecessor	Judith Rodin
Born	November 19, 1949 Brooklyn, New York
Alumna of	Radcliffe College
Religion	Jewish
Spouse	Michael Doyle
Children	Abigail

Amy Gutmann (1949 - ), Ph.D., is a political theorist who taught at Princeton University from 1976 to 2004 and served as its Provost. In 2004 she became the 8th president of the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently being considered as a candidate to replace former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers by the University's governing board, however, she has stated she herself is not considering the role [1].

Upon succeeding former University of Pennsylvania president Judith Rodin, Gutmann became the first female president to succeed a female president of an Ivy League university.

One controversy that has marred her tenure was when she was photographed at a Halloween party in 2006 posing with a student dressed as a suicide bomber.

Gutmann's father fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1934. She is married to Michael Doyle, a Professor of Law and International Affairs at Columbia University. They have one daughter, Abigail.

[edit] Education

She received a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Radcliffe College in 1971, a Masters in Political Science from the London School of Economics in 1972, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard in 1976. [2]