Louise Arbour, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal at the time of the dinner. Her indictment of Slobodan Milosevich for war crimes was the first indictment ever served against a sitting president. Arbour is currently a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Kim Campbell (hostess), first female prime minister of Canada, 1993, first female minister of justice and attorney general of Canada, and currently chair of Harvard University's Council of Women World Leaders.


Ling Chai, leader of the Chinese Democracy Movement, Commander-in-Chief of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize, and president and CEO of Jenzabar.com, an internet company.

Kim Chernin, psychoanalyst and author of Reinventing Eve: Modern Woman in Search of Herself.



Eleanor Clift, Contributing Editor of Newsweek magazine, specializing in the Washington power structure and the influence of women in politics, and author of Madam President: Shattering the Glass Ceiling.


Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author of Mistress of Spices and The Arranged Marriage, among other highly acclaimed novels, and President of MAITRI, a helpline for South Asian women.


Helen Fisher, anthropologist at Rutgers University and author of the recent, The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They are Changing the World.

Betty Friedan, cofounder of NOW and author of the landmark, The Feminine Mystique.

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. senator from Texas, member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and deputy majority whip.



Frances A. Kaiser, Sheriff of Kerr County, Texas (a straight-shooting small-town sheriff featured last year on NBC News).



General Claudia Kennedy, the U.S. Army's highest ranking woman, Deputy Chief of Intelligence, on Parade magazine's top five list for first female president of the United States, and author of, Generally Speaking: A Memoir by the First Woman Promoted to Three-Star General in the United States Army.

Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.



Mary Ourisman, fundraiser for the arts and politics and a member of the National Board of the Smithsonian Institution.



Elaina Richardson, Editor-in-Chief of Elle magazine at the time of the dinner and currently president of the Yaddo artists' retreat.



Faith Ringgold, pioneer African-American artist and author of the award-winning children's book, Tar Beach.



Wendy Shalit, postfeminist author of A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue.



Judith Shapiro, President of Barnard College.




Ruth Simmons, first African-American president of Smith College and currently president of Brown University and the highest ranking African-American woman in academia.


Alek Wek, supermodel from the Sudan, featured in People magazine's "The 50 Most Beautiful People in the World 1999," May 10, 1999.