Mary Cunningham Agee

Mary Cunningham Agee
Mary Agee
Born	1951 Falmouth or Portland, Maine

Mary Cunningham Agee (born 1951 in Falmouth, Maine) is an American business executive and author. She served in the top management of two Fortune 100 companies in the 1980s, one of the first women to do so, and was twice voted one of the "25 Most Influential Women in America" by World Almanac 1981 and 1982. Agee is a Managing Partner of the Semper Charitable Foundation and CEO of the family's boutique wine business, Aurea Estate Wines, Inc.

Agee is founder and CEO of The Nurturing Network (TNN), an international charitable organization whose mission is to teach about the need for empowerment among the most disadvantaged in society.

Cunningham was born in Portland, Maine, to Irish-American parents. When she was five years old, her parents separated. Her mother moved her four children to Hanover, New Hampshire, where a relative, Monsignor William Nolan, who was chaplain at Dartmouth College, offered paternal support for the family.

Cunningham graduated from Hanover High School in 1969. She worked summers on Cape Cod as a short-order cook and as a bank teller to supplement her college tuition scholarship. She enrolled at Newton College of the Sacred Heart (now merged with Boston College) in Newton, Massachusetts, and was elected class president. She was awarded a full academic scholarship to attend Wellesley College, where she transferred for her sophomore year. She won a Slater Fellowship to study law and ethics at Trinity College, Dublin, for her junior year abroad and received two Danforth Nominations to continue her studies in ethics and moral philosophy at the graduate level. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Wellesley in 1973 with a B.A. in logic and philosophy.

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