Elizabeth Garrett
| Elizabeth Garrett | |
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| 13th President of Cornell University | |
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In office July 1, 2015 – March 6, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | David J. Skorton |
| Succeeded by | Hunter R. Rawlings (interim) |
| Provost of the University of Southern California | |
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In office 2010–2015 |
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| Born |
Helen Elizabeth Garrett June 30, 1963 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Died | March 6, 2016 (aged 52) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Andrei Marmor |
| Alma mater |
University of Oklahoma University of Virginia |
Helen Elizabeth Garrett, commonly known as Elizabeth Garrett or Beth Garrett, (June 30, 1963 – March 6, 2016), was an American professor of law and academic administrator. Between 2010 and 2015, she served as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Southern California. On July 1, 2015, she became the 13th president of Cornell University—the first woman to serve as president of the university. She died from colon cancer on March 6, 2016, the first Cornell president to die while in office.
Garrett was born in Oklahoma City on June 30, 1963 to Robert and Jane Garrett. According to her mother, Garrett began to read very early and thereafter was never seen without a book in her hand. At age 3, according to Jane, young Garrett announced she would be a lawyer—Garrett, more modestly, claimed she was 5. Her father, Robert, had earned a law degree, though he worked as president of a savings and loan. An uncle and grandfather were also lawyers.
Garrett grew up in a family of doers, not mere talkers. Jane’s great-grandfather was the first to open a school in the Choctaw Reservation town of Lehigh, Oklahoma. Her parents taught her and her sister Laura that when they finished a task, they should start on something else.
One of Garrett's hobbies was cross-stitching. In her USC office, Garrett covered her walls in cross-stitched state mottos and landscapes of Jerusalem, Chicago, and the Netherlands. She would send cross-stitched works to her family and friends. Her college friend, Mike Bresson said he remembered traveling through Italy with Garrett and a group of others, and while everyone else slept, she cross-stitched, never to waste a moment.
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