| Summary: | Academic administrator Artis Hampshire-Cowan was born on February 5, 1955, in Mobile, Alabama. In 1976, she received her B.A. degree in business management from Morris Brown College in Atlanta and earned her J.D. degree from Temple University Law School. She was assistant district attorney in Philadelphia before spending twelve years with the government of the District of Columbia, where she held such positions as Congressional lobbyist and chief of the office of compliance at the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs. In 1991, Hampshire-Cowan co-founded and was president of Bright Beginnings, an organization that provides homeless families with childcare. Hampshire-Cowan served as senior vice president and secretary of Howard University from 1992 to 2015. In 2009, she was featured in the Washingtonian Magazine's 100 Most Powerful Women, and in 2010, she was named to the Prince George's Suite Top 100 Who's Who of Prince George's County and Who's Who in Black Washington, D.C.
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