Diane M. Sullivan, President and Chief Operating Officer of Brown Shoe Company, Inc. (NYSE: BWS) was recently nominated to the footwear company's Board of Directors. Ms. Sullivan's nomination will be put to a vote by Brown Shoe shareholders at the upcoming Annual Meeting of Shareholders on May 24, 2007.

"For the past four years, Diane has played a pivotal role in building our brands and positioning our company for the future," said Brown Shoe Chairman and CEO Ron Fromm. "Her breadth of experience and depth of footwear expertise will be a welcome addition to our board of directors."

Ms. Sullivan joined Brown Shoe in 2003 as President, and was also named Chief Operating Officer in 2005. She oversees all of the company's operating divisions and worldwide marketing, including Brown Retail (including Famous Footwear, Specialty Retail and Shoes.com), Brown Shoe St. Louis Wholesale, and Brown Shoe New York Wholesale. Ms. Sullivan joined the company from Phillips-Van Heusen where she was Vice Chairman of the Footwear Group. Prior to joining Phillips-Van Heusen in 2001, she was President and Chief Operating Officer for Stride Rite Corporation, where she worked from 1995 until 2001. Before Stride Rite, Ms. Sullivan was Vice President, Product and Marketing for The Rockport Company, and prior to that she held marketing and operations positions at a number of consumer products companies.

Ms. Sullivan serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis and a Director of The Two/Ten International Footwear Foundation. She received her M.B.A. from Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., and her B.S. in Business Administration from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

About Brown Shoe

Brown Shoe is a $2.5 billion footwear company with global operations. Brown Shoe's Retail division operates Famous Footwear, the 1,000-store chain that sells brand name shoes for the family, approximately 300 specialty retail stores in the U.S. and Canada under the Naturalizer, FX LaSalle, and Franco Sarto names, and Shoes.com, the Company's e-commerce subsidiary. Brown Shoe, through its Wholesale divisions, owns and markets leading footwear brands including Naturalizer, LifeStride, Via Spiga, Nickels Soft, Connie and Buster Brown. It also markets licensed brands including Franco Sarto, Dr. Scholl's, Etienne Aigner, and Carlos by Carlos Santana and Barbie, Disney and Nickelodeon character footwear for children. Brown Shoe press releases are available on the Company's website at .