The Class of 2009 held its commencement exercises on June 5, 2009.

Addressing the graduates, their friends and families, and the Wellesley community were Mona Minkara, student speaker; Kimberly Dozier '87, award-winning journalist and commencement address speaker; and Wellesley College President H. Kim Bottomly, presiding at her second Wellesley commencement.