"I eventually moved home in Cambridge," she said. "But I would not recommend it. I wouldn't do it again because I think it was easy to lose a lot of the bonding aspects of living on campus."

After her graduation, Armstrong attended Harvard Law School as a member of the first class to include females.

"I kind of backed into it," she says. "There were no lawyers in the family and I thought we might need to have one," she says. "The law school took a long time to recognize they were ignoring 50 percent of the human race."

After law school, she began her career with the U.S. Department of

Justice working with corporations to implement progressive employee compensation and benefit programs.

Today she serves as a consultant to boards of directors on corporate governance, executive compensation, and board organizations with the firm of Moyer & Ross in New York City.

Along the way, Armstrong also became committed to Harvard.

Armstrong has a long list of offices she has held at Harvard, most prominently, her position as the president of the Board of Overseers for 1998 to 1999. Her law expertise has been invaluable to the Board, to which fellow graduates elected her in 1993 to serve a six year stint.