Carol Ann Vaughn

Director of the Christian Women’s Leadership Center and Asst. Professor of Christianity, Women and Leadership Studies

Samford University and Woman’s Missionary Union

Samford University

800 Lakeshore Drive

Birmingham, AL 35229

Phone: 205-726-4194

E-mail: cwlc@samford.edu

Website: www.cwlc.us

Company/Organization Brief Mission: To provide learning opportunities for women to realize the fullest measure of their gifts in all areas of human endeavor.  

Motto: Vision-Voice-Vocation

Slogans: Transforming is more important than conforming.  

Job description : Direction of programs that affirm and promote women’s leadership and the study and understanding of sex, gender, religion and culture.

Length of service: Five years.   Previously chair of history and political science at Judson College for Women.

Education: Ph.D. and M. A., history, Auburn University; BA., history, University of Alabama-Huntsville; post-doctoral work, University of St. Andrews, U. K.

Background: Sixth-generation Alabamian, grew up on a farm, Madison County, and inherited love of teaching and education from a school principal grandfather and an asst. school superintendent grandmother.   A great-grandmother was a seamstress to support her family.

Personal Business Philosophy: The best investments are in people.  

Favorite Quote: Vision means planting seeds of trees under the shade of which one might never sit.  

Alternate Quote: When you put your hand to the plow, you can’t put it down until you get to the end of the row.   --- Alice Paul

Best advice ever received:   Be yourself, and follow your instincts.  

Inspiration: Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Amanda Berry Smith, Mother Jones, Ida B. Wells Barnett, Frances Willard, Pandita Ramabai, Rigoberta Menchu, Wangari Maathai, and my students.

Special comments: Women’s leadership matters.  

We all benefit from women’s cooperative success, women and men alike.