Cap and Gown Weekend
September 21-22, 2002

The Centennial Award for Alumnae Leadership
Citation For Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway ’89

Most Powerful....Most Influential...Face to Watch....Woman of Genius.... Such accolades adorn the resume of Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway as testimonials to her many achievements. A 1989 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Trinity College, Kellyanne has earned a national reputation as an insightful and incisive commentator on political and social issues. She is also widely respected as an entrepreneur, the founder and owner of the polling company, a full service political consulting and research firm that counts among its clients such well known brands as Microsoft, Major League Baseball, New York Magazine and the Ladies’ Home Journal.

Prior to entering Trinity in 1985, Kellyanne was well known throughout her native South Jersey as the New Jersey Blueberry Princess. During her Trinity years, Kellyanne expanded her horizons, studying in Oxford and learning the ropes of Washington through her studies as a political science major, graduating magna cum laude. She entered law school at George Washington University and received her law degree with honors in 1992.

After clerking for Judge Richard A. Levie and early legal practice with the firm of Jackson and Campbell, Kellyanne returned to her first love, politics. She worked for the Luntz Research Companies and the Wirthlin Group, pollsters for President Reagan and the Republican Party. In 1995 decided to start her own firm, the polling company, whose clients over the years have included former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Vice President Dan Quayle.

Kellyanne soon became a sought-after political commentator, with regular appearances on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” ABC’s “Politically Incorrect” and “This Week with Sam and Cokie,” and a wide variety of other radio and television talk shows.

Early in 2002, the polling company acquired WomanTrend, a research and consulting firm specializing in research on women and women’s issues.

Among her many awards, Kellyanne has been named one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Politics” by the Ladies’ Home Journal; one of “Washington’s Most Influential Conservatives Aged 40 or Younger” by the National Journal; and one of the “30 Most Powerful People in Generation X” by Swing Magazine.

For her entrepreneurship and leadership in public affairs, Trinity College is pleased to bestow on Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway the Centennial Award for Alumnae Leadership.

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