Mary Ann Glendon

The US Ambassador to the Holy See. She became the first woman to lead a Vatican delegation to a major UN conference in 1995. From 2001 to 2004, she served on the President’s Council on bioethics. In March 2004, Pope John Paul II named her President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, marking the first time a woman has headed one of the major Pontifical Academies.