Barbara Boggs Sigmund (May 27, 1939 – October 10, 1990) was an American writer, Democratic politician, and civic leader.
[1] A graduate of Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart and Manhattanville College, she taught at the Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart (Princeton, N.J.), which annually confers the Barbara Boggs Sigmund Alumnae Award in honor of her life.
[2] Sigmund worked as a letter writer for President John F. Kennedy, and served as a member of the Mercer County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders.
Sigmund founded Womanspace, a Mercer County, New Jersey non-profit agency that provides 24-hour hotlines, crisis intervention, emergency shelter, counseling, court advocacy, and housing to victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
[3] Sigmund was diagnosed with cancer in the early 1980s, and lost an eye to the disease, necessitating an eyepatch.