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This is a list of notable members of
Kappa Alpha Theta , a North American college women's
fraternity . This list includes both initiated and honorary members.
Academics
Elva Bascom (Mu,
Allegheny ) - librarian, professor, writer on library science
Mary Ritter Beard (Alpha,
DePauw ) – noted historian, Campaigner for Women's Suffrage.
[1]
Molly Corbett Broad (Chi,
Syracuse ) – Served as president of the
University of North Carolina , 1997–2006.
[1]
Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks (Alpha Omega,
Pittsburgh ) – research scientist who discovered
methylene blue .
[1]
Gertrude Simmons Burlingham (Chi, Syracuse) – mycologist, first woman to earn a Ph.D. from Columbia University through the program at the New York Botanical Garden in 1908.
[1]
Anna Botsford Comstock (Iota,
Cornell ) – 1st woman appointed to the faculty at
Cornell .
[1]
Mary Lee Edward (Sigma,
Toronto ) – women's health pioneer and First World War hero.
[1]
Dian Fossey (Gamma Xi,
San Jose State ) – zoologist, first female Primatologist, wrote Gorillas in the Mist .
[1]
Eilene Galloway (Alpha Iota,
Washington University in St. Louis ) – researcher and editor.
[1]
Edith Jordan Gardner (Phi Deuteron,
Stanford ) – educator and suffrage activist
Elizabeth Gilmore Holt (Psi,
Wisconsin ) – art historian.
[1]
Samantha Joye (Delta Xi,
UNC Chapel Hill ) – oceanographer
[2]
Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Alpha Mu,
Missouri ) – American historian.
[1]
Maud Menten (Sigma, Toronto) – physician, scientist.
[1]
Margaret Floy Washburn (Iota, Cornell) – the 1st woman to receive a Ph.D. in Psychology.
[1]
Arts and entertainment
Ann-Margret (Tau,
Northwestern ) – actress, (
State Fair ,
Viva Las Vegas ,
Grumpy Old Men ).
[1]
Sasha Alexander (Omicron,
USC ) – actress (
NCIS ,
Rizzoli & Isles )
Valerie Bettis – (Alpha Theta,
Texas-Austin ) dancer/choreographer
[1]
Susan Browning (Beta Phi,
Penn State ) – Tony Award-winning actress.
[1]
Sarah Clarke (Beta, Indiana) – actress, (
24 ).
[1]
Nancy Coleman (Alpha Lambda, Washington) – actress.
[1]
Jane Connell (Omega, UC Berkeley) – actress.
[1]
Joan Ganz Cooney (Beta Delta, Arizona) – founder of the
Children's Television Workshop and creator of
Sesame Street .
[1]
DaNae Couch (Epsilon Epsilon, Baylor) – Miss Texas 2012
Sheryl Crow (Alpha Mu, Missouri) –
Grammy Award winning singer.
[1]
Agnes de Mille (Beta Xi, UCLA) –
Broadway
choreographer .
[1]
Marietta DePrima (Tau, Northwestern) – actress.
[1]
Marion Dougherty (Beta Phi, Penn State) – casting director.
[1]
Patricia DuBose Duncan (Alpha Iota, Washington University in St. Louis) – artist.
[1]
Cindy Chupack (Tau, Northwestern) – Golden Globe & Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer.
[1]
Cinta Laura – (Epsilon Upsilon, Columbia) Indonesian movie and pop star
Ronnie Claire Edwards (Alpha Omicron, Oklahoma) – actress.
[1]
Glenna Goodacre (Beta Omega,
Colorado College ) – Sculptor of the
Vietnam Women's Memorial , designer of U.S. gold one-dollar coin featuring
Sacagawea .
[1]
Amy Grant (Alpha Eta, Vanderbilt) – singer,
Grammy Award winner.
[1]
Dorothy Hart (Beta Tau,
Denison ) – actress.
[1]
Jennifer Jones (Tau, Northwestern) –
Academy Award -winning American
actress .
[1]
Laura Lamson (Gamma deuteron,
Ohio Wesleyan ) – screenwriter.
[1]
Stephanie March (Tau, Northwestern) – actress, (
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ).
[1]
Jacqui Malouf (Gamma Epsilon,
Western Ontario ) – television host, cook, author.
[1]
Rue McClanahan (Gamma Tau, Tulsa) – actress, (
The Golden Girls ).
[1]
Amy McKenzie (Beta Xi,
UC Los Angeles ) – producer, director, actress.
[1]
Karen Moncrieff (Tau, Northwestern) – actress, director, screenwriter.
[1]
Dora Mavor Moore (Sigma, Toronto) – actress, director.
[1]
Julie Moran (Gamma Delta,
UGA ) – former host of Entertainment Tonight; first female host of ABC'sWide World of Sports ; current host of Insiders List on the Fine Living channel.
[1]
Carol Morris (Beta Kappa, Drake University) - Miss USA (1956), Miss Universe (1956).
Mary Kay Place (Gamma Tau, Tulsa) – actress, (
Being John Malkovich ,
The Rainmaker ).
[1]
Skyler Samuels – (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) Actress (Nine Lives of Chloe King, Scream Queens)
Sara Schaefer (Beta Lambda, The
College of William & Mary ) – Comedian and host of MTV's "
Nikki & Sara Live ".
[1]
Marlo Thomas (Omicron, USC) – actress and spokeswoman for St. Jude's Children's Hospital.
[1]
Kate Voegele (Gamma Upsilon,
Miami (Ohio) ) – singer/songwriter and One Tree Hill actress.
[1]
Jenna von Oÿ (Omicron, USC) – actress, (
Blossom ).
[1]
Maurine Dallas Watkins (Gamma,
Butler ) – playwright, (
Chicago (1926) ).
[1]
Teal Wicks (Epsilon Sigma,
UC Irvine ) – singer/actress, best known for playing Elphaba in the musical Wicked
Ashley Zais (Zeta Eta,
Wofford College , SC) – Miss South Carolina USA 2007.
[3]
Business
Tory Burch (Beta Eta, University of Pennsylvania) – fashion designer.
[1]
Carolyn S. Chambers (Alpha Xi, Oregon) – owner and CEO of
Chambers Communications Corporation
[1]
Tracy Britt Cool (Zeta Xi) – business executive at
Berkshire Hathaway .
[1]
Melinda Gates (Beta Rho, Duke) – former wife of
Bill Gates ; Co-founder of
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation .
[1]
Prerna Gupta (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) – CEO of Telepathic Inc.
[4]
Elizabeth Holmes (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) – founder and former CEO of now-defunct
Theranos , convicted of criminal fraud.
[5]
Marjorie Child Husted (Upsilon, Minnesota) – creator of
Betty Crocker .
[1]
Dylan Lauren (Beta Rho, Duke) – owner of
Dylan's Candy Bar and daughter of fashion designer
Ralph Lauren .
Mary Wells Lawrence (Gamma Theta, Carnegie Mellon) – advertisement executive, founding president of Wells Rich Greene, first female CEO of a company listed on the
New York Stock Exchange .
[1]
Kira Plastinina (Beta Sigma, Southern Methodist) – fashion designer.
[1]
Hope Skillman Schary (Alpha Delta, Goucher) – textile designer, founder and chief executive of Skillmill
[6]
Politics
Karen Koning AbuZayd (Alpha, DePauw) – Commissioner-General of the
United Nations Relief and Works Agency from 2005 to 2010
Eva Bertrand Adams (Beta Mu, Nevada) –
Director of the United States Mint from 1961–1969.
[1]
Jean Spencer Ashbrook (Alpha Gamma, Ohio State) – United States House Representative from Ohio
[1]
Frances Cleveland Axtell (Alpha, DePauw) – one of the first female State Representatives of Washington
[1]
Nancy Kassebaum Baker (Kappa, Kansas) – former
United States Senator and the first woman elected to the United States Senate who had not succeeded her husband or first been appointed to fill an unexpired term.
[1]
Barbara Bodine (Gamma Rho, UC Santa Barbara) – United States Ambassador to Yemen
[1]
Barbara Pierce Bush (Epsilon Tau, Yale University) – daughter of President
George W. Bush , Co-founder and president of the Global Health Corp.
[7]
Laura Bush (Beta Sigma, Southern Methodist) –
First Lady of the United States ; wife of President
George W. Bush .
[1]
Pearl Chase (Omega, UC Berkeley) – civic leader.
[1]
Lynne Cheney (Beta Omega, Colorado College) – Chair,
National Endowment for the Humanities ; Senior Fellow,
American Enterprise Institute ; Director,
Reader's Digest ; former co-host
CNN 's
Crossfire ;
Second Lady of the United States ; wife of Vice President
Dick Cheney .
[1]
Barbara Brandriff Crabb (Psi, Wisconsin) – Senior United States District Judge.
[1]
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (Alpha, DePauw) – influential
abolitionist and
suffragist .
[1]
Joyce Fairbairn (Beta Chi, Alberta) – Canadian senator.
[1]
Mary Fallin (Beta Zeta, Oklahoma State) – 1st woman to be elected Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma; 1st woman to be elected Governor of Oklahoma; U.S. House of Representatives.
[1]
Tillie K. Fowler (Delta Zeta, Emory) – United States Representative from Florida.
[1]
Barbara Hackman Franklin (Beta Phi, Penn State) – 29th U.S. Secretary of Commerce; CEO of Barbara Franklin Enterprises.
[1]
Jenna Bush Hager (Alpha Theta, University of Texas) – daughter of President
George W. Bush .
[7]
[8]
Margaret Hance (Beta Delta, Arizona) – first female mayor of
Phoenix, Arizona .
[1]
Nancy Hanks (Beta Rho, Duke) – 1st woman to serve as the Chairman of the United States National Endowment for the Arts.
[1]
Victoria Reggie Kennedy (Alpha Phi, Tulane) – wife of the late Senator
Ted Kennedy
[9]
Susan King (Alpha Theta, University of Texas) – Republican member of the
Texas House of Representatives from
Abilene , Texas
[10]
Cindy Hensley McCain (Omicron, USC) – Executive Director of the
World Food Programme , former
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture , and wife of 2008 presidential candidate Senator
John McCain .
[11]
Claire McCaskill (Alpha Mu, Missouri) – U.S. Congress as Senator from Missouri.
[1]
Jeanne Milliken Bonds (Delta Xi, UNC Chapel Hill) – American politician who served as Mayor of
Knightdale , Deputy Director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts, and as Regional Manager of Community Development for North and South Carolina for the
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond .
Adelaide Sinclair (Sigma, Toronto) – Canadian public servant.
[1]
Shanta Vasisht – Indian parliamentarian
Elizabeth Warren (Gamma Kappa,
George Washington University ) –
United States Senator from Massachusetts.
Gretchen Whitmer (Beta Pi, Michigan State University) – 49th governor of Michigan.
[1]
Sports
Lucille Ash (Beta Omega, Colorado) – Olympic figure skater.
[1]
Pauline Betz (Gamma Gamma, Rollins) – American female tennis player.
[12]
Louise Brough (Omicron, Southern California) – American female tennis player.
[1]
Madonna Buder (Alpha Iota, Washington University in St. Louis) – Catholic religious sister, Senior Olympian and triathlete record holder
[13]
[14]
JoAnne Carner (Delta Epsilon, Arizona State) – American professional golfer.
[1]
Ann Curtis (Omega, UC Berkeley) – Olympic gold medalist, swimming (1948).
[1]
Sasha DiGiulian (Epsilon Upsilon, Columbia) – World Champion rock climber.
[1]
Kathy Ellis (Beta, Indiana) – Olympic swimmer.
[1]
Jane Fauntz (Delta, Illinois) – Olympic Bronze Medalist swimmer & diver.
[1]
Aria Fischer (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) - Olympic Gold Medalist water polo player
Makenzie Fischer (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) - Olympic Gold Medalist water polo player
Linda Gustavson (Beta Pi, Michigan State) – Olympic swimmer and world record holder.
[1]
Shirley Fry Irvin (Gamma Gamma, Rollins) – tennis player.
[1]
Helen Jacobs (Omega, UC Berkeley) – American female tennis player.
[1]
Pamela Kruse (Beta Pi, Michigan State) – Olympic silver-medalist swimmer.
[1]
Barbara McIntire (Gamma Gamma, Rollins) – golfer.
[1]
Christen Press (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) - 2015 Women's World cup Champion for the United States.
Kerri Strug (Beta Xi, UCLA) – Olympic gymnast.
[1]
Chierika Ukogu (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) – Olympic rower for Nigeria.
[1]
Media
Carolina Bermudez (Delta Epsilon, Arizona State) – radio personality on
WHTZ Z100 (New York), the biggest Top 40 station in the world.
[1]
Ally Blake (Theta Theta, North Carolina State University) – broadcast meteorologist at
WMAR-2 News in Baltimore, MD. Former meteorologist at “
WKYT-TV ” in Lexington, KY.
[1]
Deb Carson (Epsilon Epsilon, Baylor) – national sports anchor & on-air personality,
Fox Sports Radio .
[1]
Kelly Corrigan (Epsilon Psi, Richmond) – author.
[1]
Harriet Doerr (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) – writer.
[1]
Isabelle Holland (Alpha Phi, Tulane) – author.
[1]
Amy Holmes (Epsilon Mu, Princeton) – journalist, news anchor.
[1]
Suzanne La Follette (Alpha Sigma, Washington State) – author, journalist, and libertarian feminist advocate.
[1]
Kate Lehrer (Gamma Psi, Texas Christian) – novelist, book reviewer, writer.
[1]
Jean Marzollo (Gamma Zeta, Connecticut) – children's author and illustrator
[1]
Mary Margaret McBride (Alpha Mu, Missouri) – widely followed radio commentator, journalist, author (1935–1955).
[1]
Alexi McCammond (Epsilon Phi, Chicago) - Political Reporter, Axios.
[1]
[15]
Kate Millett (Upsilon, Minnesota) – American
feminist and
author .
[1]
Judith Miller (Alpha Gamma, Ohio State) – American
journalist .
[1]
Anne Marie Pace (Beta Lambda, William and Mary) – children's book author, author of the Vampirina Ballerina series.
[16]
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Psi, Wisconsin) – author, (
The Yearling ).
[1]
Kate Snow (Iota, Cornell) – anchor for
Good Morning America .
[1]
Melissa Stark (Delta Chi, Virginia) – news reporter,
Monday Night Football .
[1]
Ida Tarbell (Mu,
Allegheny College ) – American journalist.
Miscellaneous
Jennifer Bertrand (Kappa,
University of Kansas ) – winner of
HGTV Design Star season three.
[17]
Neilia Hunter Biden (Chi, Syracuse) - teacher, first wife of
Joe Biden
Katie Lee Joel (Gamma Upsilon, Miami University Ohio) – chef, restaurant critic, former wife of
Billy Joel .
[1]
Dorothy Liebes (Omega, UC Berkeley) – "mother of modern weaving".
[1]
Marion Manley (Delta, Illinois) – received the Gold Medal Award in 1973 from the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects.
[1]
Edith McAllister (University of Texas at Austin) — civic leader and philanthropist in San Antonio, Texas
[18]
Julia Morgan (Omega, UC Berkeley) – designed the
Hearst Castle , first woman to receive the AIA Gold Medal.
[1]
Carol Morris (Beta Kappa, Drake) – the second Miss USA to win the Miss Universe title in the pageant's fifth edition in 1956.
[1]
Shelby Ringdahl (Gamma Psi, TCU) – 2013 Miss Missouri winner and 2014 Miss America semifinalist.
Tiffany Trump (Beta Eta,
University of Pennsylvania ) – socialite, law school graduate, daughter of
Donald Trump .
[19]
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