Mary Danforth Stillman

Mary Danforth Stillman
Lecturer
Washington University in St. Louis

Mary Danforth Stillman teaches a Freshman Seminar at Washington University on the Bill of Rights. She is also the Internship Program Director at College Bound in St. Louis, where she coordinates the Summer Internship Program for college juniors.

Ms. Stillman grew up in Jefferson City, Missouri and in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Princeton University in 1985 and Yale Law School in 1988. After serving as a clerk for a federal district court judge in Baltimore, she worked as an associate at Covington & Burling, a Washington, D.C. law firm. In 1993, she and her husband moved to St. Louis and she began working as an Assistant Dean at Washington University, focusing on Freshman programming. After taking time off when her children were young, Ms. Stillman returned to Washington University in 2003 in her current teaching role.

Ms. Stillman serves on the Board of Trustees at John Burroughs School, on the Advisory Board of the Gephardt Institute for Public Service at Washington University, and on the Advisory Board of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. She also coordinates the Republican Leadership Circle, a women's political group.

She and her husband Tom have three children: John (20), Isabelle (18) and Anna (16).