List of Kappa Alpha Theta sisters
This is a list of notable members of Kappa Alpha Theta, a North American college Fraternity. This list includes both initiated and honorary members.
Academics[]
- Elva Bascom (Mu, Alleghany) - 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-St.Louis) – researcher and editor.[1]
- Edith Jordan Gardner (Phi, Stanford) – educator and suffrage activist
- Elizabeth Gilmore Holt (Psi, Wisconsin) – art historian.[1]
- 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-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 and 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 Hillactress.[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.[2]
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]
- 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[3]
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.[4]
- 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.[4][5]
- 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[6]
- (Alpha Theta, University of Texas) – Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Abilene, Texas[7]
- Cindy Hensley McCain (Omicron, USC) – wife of 2008 presidential candidate Senator John McCain.[8]
- Claire McCaskill (Alpha Mu, Missouri) – U.S. Congress as Senator from Missouri.[1]
- Adelaide Sinclair (Sigma, Toronto) – Canadian public servant.[1]
- Shanta Vasisht – Indian parliamentarian
- Elizabeth Warren (Gamma Kappa, George Washington University) – United States Senator from Massachusetts.
Sports[]
- Lucille Ash (Beta Omega, Colorado) – Olympic figure skater.[1]
- Pauline Betz (Gamma Gamma, Rollins) – American female tennis player.[9]
- Louise Brough (Omicron, Southern California) – American female tennis player.[1]
- Madonna Buder (Alpha Iota, Washington-St. Louis) – Catholic religious sister, Senior Olympian and triathlete record holder[10][11]
- 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 deutueron, Stanford) - Olympic Gold Medalist water polo player
- Makenzie Fischer (Phi deutueron, 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 deutueron, 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 WKYT 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 dueteron, 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]
- 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.[12]
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Psi, Wisconsin) – author, (The Yearling).[1]
- Kate Snow (Iota, Cornell) – anchor for Good Morning America.[1]
- Melissa Stark (Delta Chi, Virginia) – newsreporter, Monday Night Football.[1]
- Ida Tarbell (Mu, Allegheny College) – American Journalist.
Miscellaneous[]
- Jennifer Bertrand (Kappa, Kansas University) – winner of HGTV Design Star season three.[13]
- 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]
- 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.[14]
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