Joan Carter is a graduate of The College of Wooster, and was awarded the College's 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award.
12 Facts About Joan Carter
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In 2010, Carter was elected President of The Union League of Philadelphia, the first woman to hold that position in the League's 150 year history.
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Joan Carter was awarded the Temple University 2011 Musser Award, the Adam Smith Award in 2012 by Economics Pennsylvania, the IWF Women Who Make a Difference Award in 2018, and 2018 Distinguished Citizen Award from the Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation.
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Joan Carter serves as chairman of the board of the Legacy Foundation formerly the Abraham Lincoln Foundation and FreedomWorks.
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Joan Carter currently serves on the board of Philly Pops, The Foundation for Individual Liberty and as trustee emeritus for the College of Wooster.
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Joan Carter served as director for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from 1994 to 2001 and as its chair from 1998 to 2001.
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Joan Carter was a director for Carr America from 2003 to 2006 when Carr was sold to the Blackstone Group.
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Joan Carter was vice chairman of the board of Cybex International from 1997 to 2016 when Cybex was sold to Brunswick Corporation in 2016.
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Joan Carter was a director from 2001 to 2019 for Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company and chair of that board's marketing committee.
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Joan Carter is married to John Aglialoro, producer of the Atlas Shrugged movie trilogy, on which Joan Carter served as associate producer.
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Joan Carter authored The History of the Atlas Shrugged Movie Trilogy and co-authored Atlas Shrugged: The Novel, the Films, the Philosophy.
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Joan Carter has two children, and two step-children, and eight grandchildren.