M. Claire Lomax, Esq., C'84 is General Counsel of The Lomax Companies, a group of family owned businesses based in the Philadelphia area. In her capacity as General Counsel for the past 17 years, Ms. Lomax has worked in the areas of child welfare, labor and employment law, corporate law and managed health care. Since January, 2003, Ms. Lomax has served as the CEO of the Lomax Family Foundation which is one of several African American grantor foundations in the country. A graduate of Penn's College of Arts and Sciences, C'84, Ms. Lomax attended law school at Georgetown University Law Center. She is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania and Maryland. She is a past-President of the NBA Women Lawyer's Division - Philadelphia Chapter; a member of the American Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and the Maryland Bar Association's Committee on Correctional Reform. She is also formerly the President and CEO of Say Yes to Health, Inc., a non-profit organization that provided health education to at-risk children in Philadelphia. Ms. Lomax currently serves as a member of the University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees and the Board of Overseers for the Penn's School of Social Policy and Practice. She is a member of the Trustees Council of Penn Women. She has served on the Board of Penn Alumni since 2003. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the African American Museum in Philadelphia.
Dr. Susan C. Taylor, C'79 is a Harvard-trained physician who is an internationally recognized expert in dermatology and ethnic skin disease. She is board certified in both internal medicine and dermatology and lectures frequently domestically and abroad. Dr. Taylor is a frequent guest on local and national news shows. She is quoted extensively in the nation's leading newspapers and in national women's magazines. Dr. Taylor has practiced at Society Hill Dermatology in Philadelphia for 14 years.
In 1998, Dr. Taylor became the Director of the Skin of Color Center at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, the first center of its type in the nation. The mission of the center is the diagnosis, treatment, and investigation of diseases in individuals with skin of color, including those of African American, Hispanic, and Asian ancestry. Dr. Taylor is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Baldwin School and of the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania.
At Penn, Dr. Taylor serves on the Board of Overseers of the Graduate School of Education, the WXPN Policy Board and is co-Chair of the James Brister Society. She is a member of the Trustees' Council of Penn Women and served on the committee that organized the 125 Years of Women at Penn celebration in November 2001. Dr. Taylor has been a member of the Penn Alumni Board since 1999 and serves currently on the Awards and Resolutions and Nominations committees; she received the Alumni Award of Merit in 2000. She is a loyal supporter of the Brister Society and the Graduate School of Education. Dr. Taylor established the Susan Taylor Scholarship.
