Ms. Joan Steward Stevens
In 1970, Joan Steward Stevens graduated Magna Cum Laude from ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵ University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. As a student, Stevens was a part of the Voter Registration Project, the Practice Teaching Program a member of the Alpha Mu Honor Society. Upon graduation, Mrs. Stevens entered federal service where her career expanded over 38 years within various federal agencies. Among her many accomplishments, she received the Secretarial Award for exceptional management achievement in the Department of Health and Human Services. Moreover, Mrs. Stevens was selected for the Senior Executive Service, the highest rank any government employee can obtain in the span of their career. Mrs. Stevens was a high-level executive at the Social Security Administration (SSA) for many years. As Assistant Associate Commissioner for SSA, Office of Central Operations, she was in charge of the recruitment for all employees within the entire organization. In this period of her career, she utilized her extraordinary leadership skills, innovative project management skills and passion for community service to return to her native community of South Carolina and ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵ University; establishing several recruitment initiatives to benefit its citizens and other graduates of her alma mater. Under Mrs. Stevens' direction and guidance, SSA sent outreach recruiters to visit and advise countless potential job applicants at ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵ University and other schools within her home state of South Carolina. SSA made on site visits, and hired over 75 students as a result of this creative initiative. In fact, the majority of the students who received these highly competitive and coveted federal positions were ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵ University alum. Mrs. Stevens is a loyal member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Washington, DC Alumni Chapter of ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵ University, the National Drifters, Inc. (Mitchellville Chapter), and the Antioch Baptist Church, Upper Marlboro, Maryland where she faithfully is Director of the Usher Ministry as well as International Projects. She is the widow of Joseph Stevens.