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Anne Oliver Hughes passed away quietly in her sleep on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025.
Anne was born in Colorado on June 9, 1929. She was educated at both Swarthmore College and The University of Chicago, where she earned a doctoral degree.
Anne moved to the D.C. area in the late 1960s and began her teaching career at Federal City College, a predecessor school to the University of the District of Columbia. As a sociology educator at UDC, Anne touched thousands of students through her classes on campus and off—in one of her courses, she taught statistics to inmates at a correctional facility in Lorton, Virginia.
In addition to her outstanding teaching career, Anne also served as director of development at UDC, during which she launched a proseminar in grant writing. As a researcher, Anne was awarded numerous federal and state grants that allowed her to focus on methodologies to improve educational processes through direct research. From 2007 to 2015, she coauthored 11 books in physics, math and education with UDC physics Professor Daryao Khatri. Their work has been spotlighted in The Washington Post and other news outlets.
In 2010, Anne was persuaded by her late husband, John F. “Jack” Hughes, to retire from the university. Anne had married Jack in 1969, and the two shared a passion for policy that prioritized education as an institutional building block to promote social equality and economic opportunity for all Americans.
Anne also was an accomplished painter and gardener who loved to create beauty wherever she could.
Anne was preceded in death by her husband, Jack, and her brother, Tom Oliver, a professor at UDC and motorcycle enthusiast. She leaves behind her stepson, William Hughes; daughter-in-law, Elisabeth Hughes; and their children, Heather and Rebecca; as well her brother’s children, Tom, Katie and stepdaughter Kathy Hughes.
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