# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lois-rice
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:47:55.769Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lois-rice"
name: "Lois Rice"
slug: "lois-rice"
description: "Lois Ann Dickson Fitt Rice was an American corporate executive, scholar, and education policy expert. Known as the \"mother of the Pell Grant\" because of her work lobbying for its creation, she was national vice president of the College Board from 1973 until 1981. According to the Wall Street Journal, she was \"among the first wave of African-American women serving on boards of major US corporations,\" and under president Bill Clinton, she was a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. For years, she was an economic studies expert at the Brookings Institution concentrating on education policy."
tagline: "American corporate executive, scholar, and education policy expert (1933-2017)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Lois_Dickson_Rice.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1933-02-28"
deathDate: "2017-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.96
  momentum:             10
  historical:           1.625817333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  44
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Rice"
    title: "Lois Rice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29261542"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations