Adrienne Hall ’58

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Adrienne Hall’s tireless efforts on behalf of people have had a profound effect on the local, national and international community. She has served the Los Angeles community in a multitude of ways, serving as director of the American Red Cross, United Way, 2000 Regional Partnership and Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce; governor of Town Hall; trustee of The National Health Foundation; county commissioner of music and the performing arts; Shelter partner; regent of Loyola Marymount University; and trustee for ten years of the UCLA Foundation.

Hall also has had a strong commitment to Los Angeles’ ethnic communities. She has served as an advisory board member of the Asian Pacific Woman’s Network; member of the Coalition of 100 Black Women and the National Network of Hispanic Women; and a major supporter of Self-Help Graphics, one of the nation’s most important Chicano Art Centers.

Hall also has been actively involved to the women’s community. She is a founder of both the Committee of 200 comprising of the top business women in the world, and the Los Angeles Trusteeship of the International Women’s Forum, which is the most prestigious women’s organization in the world.  She has founded more than 30 chapters around the world. She is also a director of American Women in Economic Development and a member of National Women’s Economic Alliance.

Founder of the first advertising agency in the nation to be headed by a woman, Hall is the vice chairman of the national agency Eisman Johns & Laws and was honored by the Alumni Association in 1984 for her professional service, but it is for her service to our community that she is also honored.