Notable Pomona alumni include anthropologist David P. Barrows (1894); pioneer of Chinese social science Chen Hansheng (1920); U.S. Circuit judges James Marshall Carter (1924), Stephen Reinhardt (1951), and Richard Taranto (1977); actors Joel McCrea (1928) and Richard Chamberlain (1956); avant-garde composer John Cage (attended 1928–1930); U.S. Senators Alan Cranston (; transferred ) and Brian Schatz (; 1994); Flying Tigers member and Medal of Honor recipient James H. Howard (1937); fourteen-time Grammy-winning conductor Robert Shaw (1938); "Gumby" creator Art Clokey (1943); senior Disney executive Roy E. Disney (1951); several Academy Award-winning screenwriters, including Robert Towne (1956) and Jim Taylor (1984); writer, actor, and musician Kris Kristofferson (1958); Light and Space artist James Turrell (1965); Civil Rights activist and NAACP chairperson Myrlie Evers-Williams (1968); "New York Times" executive editor Bill Keller (1970); self-help author Marianne Williamson (attended 1970–1972); Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Mary Schmich (1975); and Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Jennifer Doudna (1985).