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Mary Jean Harrold Harrold was involved with the SIGSOFT community. She was General Chair of the conference SIGSOFT in 2008. Mary Jean Harrold was named an ACM Fellow in 2003. In 2004, as a current CRA-W co-chair, Harrold (along with Prof. Carla Ellis and Dr. Jan Cuny) accepted the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) award on behalf of CRA-W, for "significant achievements in mentoring women across educational levels". Her other notable awards include: Mary Jean Harrold Mary Jean Harrold (March 12, 1947 – September 19, 2013) was an American computer scientist noted for her research on software