Vanderbilt University
When June joined the Vanderbilt University Athletics Department in 1973 (first as a secretary before rising to Assistant AD prior to her retirement in 2003), she was one of the very few women employed by a college athletic department.
June Stewart began her career in the Vanderbilt sports information office in 1973 and was named assistant SID in 1977. From 1979-90, she served as Vanderbilt's women's sports information director. In 1990, Stewart was promoted to women's sports program director and assistant athletics director for future revenue sports.
In her three-plus decades in collegiate athletic administration, Stewart was on the ground floor of sweeping changes in college sports, working to publicize the widespread growth of women’s participation and women’s teams while implementing the important changes in athletic marketing and technology.
Stewart became the first woman to be president of CoSIDA for the 1990-91 academic year after entering the officers rotation as 3rd VP in 1987-88. She was inducted into the CoSIDA Hall of Fame in 1997 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 2003, she received the
Mary Jo Haverbeck Trailblazer Award from CoSIDA.
Her career also included stints on the NCAA Women’s Basketball Committee and the SEC Executive Committee.
The Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame inducted Stewart in 2004. She also is a member of the Tennessee Sports Writers Hall of Fame (2007) and the Vanderbilt Athletics Hall of Fame (2008).
She passed away Tuesday, February 19 following a lengthy struggle with the effects of Alzheimer's disease. She was 78.
Three CoSIDA Mary Jo Haverbeck Trailblazer Award recipients, l to r: Tammy Boclair (formerly of Vanderbilt), 2016 recipient and 2003-04 CoSIDA President; former ESPN VP Rosa Gatti (2009 recipient) and Stewart, the 2003 recipient. Gatti also was the 2003 Keith Jackson Eternal Flame Award winner.
Stewart pictured with other CoSIDA Past Presidents during the 2006 CoSIDA Convention.
Past President Stewart with the CoSIDA Board of Directors in 1992-93.
Stewart with former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno (back row, next to Stewart) and other CoSIDA representatives at a GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame event in the 1990s.