Marjorie Bell Chambers (Marjorie Bell, Marjorie Chambers) was born in New York in 1923. In 1943, she graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Art History and political science and went on to earn a Master of Arts (M.A.) from Cornell University in 1948. She married physicist, William H. Chambers in 1945 and the couple moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico a few years later where he worked in the National Laboratory. Chambers spent the following years raising their children and worked as a substitute teacher in Los Alamos. In 1974, Marjorie Chambers received a PhD in History and Political Science at the University of New Mexico. She went on to serve on the faculty of the University of New Mexico and served as dean of the Midwest region of the Union Institute Graduate School. Marjorie Chambers served as the first woman president of Colorado Women's College (a division of the University of Denver). Chambers also served as president of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). A lifelong advocate for women's rights, Dr. Marjorie Bell Chambers was appointed her to the National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs in 1976 by President Gerald Ford. Chambers served as vice-chair and acting chair of President Carter?s Committee for Women (1977-1980). She was elected to the Los Alamos City Council and is known to have institutionalized the term, "Councilor" to replace the traditional use of "council man". In 1980, Marjorie Chambers participated in the United Nations World Conference on Women in Copenhagen. She served on the Board of Directors of the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities and as president of the New Mexico History Society. Chambers was a noted historian and published several books including The Los Alamos Story, a series on the history of Los Alamos. In 2003 she was given the Governor's Award as an Outstanding Woman of New Mexico. In addition to her extensive career as an educator, historian and activist, Marjorie Bell Chambers was also an accomplished painter.