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]
• Edith Jordan Gardner (Phi, Stanford) – educator and suffrage activist
• Maud Menten (Sigma, Toronto) – physician, scientist.[1]
• Molly Corbett Broad (Chi, Syracuse) – Served as president of the University of North Carolina, 1997–2006.[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]
• Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Alpha Mu, Missouri) – American historian.[1]
• Elizabeth Gilmore Holt (Psi, Wisconsin) – art historian.[1]
• Dian Fossey (Gamma Xi, San Jose State) – zoologist, first female Primatologist, wrote Gorillas in the Mist.[1]
• Margaret Floy Washburn (Iota, Cornell) – the 1st woman to receive a Ph.D. in Psychology.[1]
• Eilene Galloway (Alpha Iota, Washington-St.Louis) – researcher and editor.[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]

Arts and entertainment

• Ann-Margret (Tau, Northwestern) – actress, (State Fair, Viva Las Vegas, Grumpy Old Men).[1]
• Sarah Clarke (Beta, Indiana) – actress, (24).[1]
• Ronnie Claire Edwards (Alpha Omicron, Oklahoma) – actress.[1]
• Jacqui Malouf (Gamma Epsilon, Western Ontario) – television host, cook, author.[1]
• Karen Moncrieff (Tau, Northwestern) – actress, director, screenwriter.[1]
• Dora Mavor Moore (Sigma, Toronto) – actress, director.[1]
• Marietta DePrima (Tau, Northwestern) – actress.[1]
• Joan Ganz Cooney (Beta Delta, Arizona) – founder of the Children's Television Workshop and creator of Sesame Street.[1]
• Susan Browning (Beta Phi, Penn State) – Tony Award-winning actress.[1]
• Nancy Coleman (Alpha Lambda, Washington) – actress.[1]
• Sara Schaefer (Beta Lambda, The College of William and Mary) – Comedian and host of MTV's "Nikki & Sara Live".[1]
• Sheryl Crow (Alpha Mu, Missouri) – Grammy Award winning singer.[1]
• Dorothy Hart (Beta Tau, Denison) – actress.[1]
• Agnes de Mille (Beta Xi, UCLA) – Broadway choreographer.[1]
• Amy Grant (Alpha Eta, Vanderbilt) – singer, Grammy Award winner.[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]
• Marion Dougherty (Beta Phi, Penn State) – casting director.[1]
• Amy McKenzie (Beta Xi, UC Los Angeles) – producer, director, actress.[1]
• Jennifer Jones (Tau, Northwestern) – Academy Award-winning American actress.[1]
• Rue McClanahan (Gamma Tau, Tulsa) – actress, (The Golden Girls).[1]
• Laura Lamson (Gamma deuteron, Ohio Wesleyan) – screenwriter.[1]
• Jane Connell (Omega, UC Berkeley) – actress.[1]
• Stephanie March (Tau, Northwestern) – actress, (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit).[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]
• Mary Kay Place (Gamma Tau, Tulsa) – actress, (Being John Malkovich, The Rainmaker).[1]
• Sasha Alexander (Omicron, USC) – actress (NCIS, Rizzoli & Isles)
• Marlo Thomas (Omicron, USC) – actress and spokeswoman for St. Jude's Children's Hospital.[1]
• Jenna von Oÿ (Omicron, USC) – actress, (Blossom).[1]
• Patricia DuBose Duncan (Alpha Iota, Washington-St. Louis) – artist.[1]
• Cindy Chupack (Tau, Northwestern) – Golden Globe & Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer.[1]
• Kate Voegele (Gamma Upsilon, Miami (Ohio)) – singer/songwriter and One Tree Hillactress.[1]
• Maurine Dallas Watkins (Gamma, Butler) – playwright, (Chicago(1926)).[1]
• Ashley Zais (Zeta Eta, Wofford College, SC) – Miss South Carolina USA 2007.[2]
• Teal Wicks (Epsilon Sigma, UC Irvine) – singer/actress, best known for playing Elphaba in the musical Wicked
• DaNae Couch (Epsilon Epsilon, Baylor) – Miss Texas 2012
• Whitney Port – (Omicron, USC) television personality, The Hills
• Cinta Laura – (Epsilon Upsilon, Columbia) Indonesian movie and pop star
• Valerie Bettis – (Alpha Theta, Texas-Austin) dancer/choreographer[1]
• Skyler Samuels – (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) Actress (Nine Lives of Chloe King, Scream Queens)

Business

• Tory Burch (Beta Eta, University of Pennsylvania) – fashion designer.[1]
• Melinda Gates (Beta Rho, Duke) – wife of Bill Gates; Co-founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.[1]
• Dylan Lauren (Beta Rho, Duke) – owner of Dylan's Candy Bar and daughter of fashion designer Ralph Lauren.
• Marjorie Child Husted (Upsilon, Minnesota) – creator of Betty Crocker.[1]
• Kira Plastinina (Beta Sigma, Southern Methodist) – 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]
• 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]

Politics

• Eva Bertrand Adams (Beta Mu, Nevada) – Director of the United States Mint from 1961–1969.[1]
• Karen Koning AbuZayd (Alpha, DePauw) – Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency from 2005 to 2010
• Pearl Chase (Omega, UC Berkeley) – civic leader.[1]
• Joyce Fairbairn (Beta Chi, Alberta) – Canadian senator.[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]
• Frances Cleveland Axtell (Alpha, DePauw) – one of the first female State Representatives of Washington[1]
• Jeanne Bonds (Milliken) (Delta Xi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) – First female Mayor of Knightdale, NC, Candidate for NC House.[1]
• Barbara Bodine (Gamma Rho, UC Santa Barbara) – United States Ambassador to Yemen[1]
• Barbara Brandriff Crabb (Psi, Wisconsin) – Senior United States District Judge.[1]
• Jean Spencer Ashbrook (Alpha Gamma, Ohio State) – United States House Representative from Ohio[1]
• Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (Alpha, DePauw) – influential abolitionist and suffragist.[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]
• Nancy Hanks (Beta Rho, Duke) – 1st woman to serve as the Chairman of the United States National Endowment for the Arts.[1]
• Susan King (Alpha Theta, University of Texas) – Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Abilene, Texas[3]
• Claire McCaskill (Alpha Mu, Missouri) – U.S. Congress as Senator from Missouri.[1]
• Adelaide Sinclair (Sigma, Toronto) – Canadian public servant.[1]
• Margaret Hance (Beta Delta, Arizona) – first female mayor of Phoenix, Arizona.[1]
• Shanta Vasisht – Indian parliamentarian
• Barbara Pierce Bush (Epsilon Tau, Yale University) – daughter of President George W. Bush, Co-founder and president of the Global Health Corp.[4]
• Jenna Bush Hager (Alpha Theta, University of Texas) – daughter of President George W. Bush.[4][5]
• Laura Bush (Beta Sigma, Southern Methodist) – First Lady of the United States; wife of President George W. Bush.[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]
• Victoria Reggie Kennedy (Alpha Phi, Tulane) – wife of the late Senator Ted Kennedy[6]
• Elizabeth Warren (Gamma Kappa, George Washington University) – United States Senator from Massachusetts.
• Cindy Hensley McCain (Omicron, USC) – wife of 2008 presidential candidate Senator John McCain.[7]

Sports

• Pauline Betz (Gamma Gamma, Rollins) – American female tennis player.[8]
• Madonna Buder (Alpha Iota, Washington-St. Louis) – Catholic religious sister, Senior Olympian and triathlete record holder[9][10]
• JoAnne Carner (Delta Epsilon, Arizona State) – American professional golfer.[1]
• Ann Curtis (Omega, UC Berkeley) – Olympic gold medalist, swimming (1948).[1]
• Linda Gustavson (Beta Pi, Michigan State) – Olympic swimmer and world record holder.[1]
• Kathy Ellis (Beta, Indiana) – Olympic swimmer.[1]
• Helen Jacobs (Omega, UC Berkeley) – American female tennis player.[1]
• Kerri Strug (Beta Xi, UCLA) – Olympic gymnast.[1]
• Sasha DiGiulian (Epsilon Upsilon, Columbia) – World Champion rock climber.[1]
• Jane Fauntz (Delta, Illinois) – Olympic Bronze Medalist swimmer & diver.[1]
• Louise Brough (Omicron, Southern California) – American female tennis player.[1]
• Shirley Fry Irvin (Gamma Gamma, Rollins) – tennis player.[1]
• Lucille Ash (Beta Omega, Colorado) – Olympic figure skater.[1]
• Pamela Kruse (Beta Pi, Michigan State) – Olympic silver-medalist swimmer.[1]
• Barbara McIntire (Gamma Gamma, Rollins) – golfer.[1]
• Chierika Ukogu (Phi deuteron, Stanford) – Olympic rower for Nigeria.[1]
• Christen Press (Phi deutueron, Stanford) - 2015 Women's World cup Champion for the United States.
• Makenzie Fischer (Phi deutueron, Stanford) - Olympic Gold Medalist water polo player
• Aria Fischer (Phi deutueron, Stanford) - Olympic Gold Medalist water polo player

Media

• Carolina Bermudez (Delta Epsilon, Arizona State) – radio personality on WHTZ Z100 (New York), the biggest Top 40 station in the world.[1]
• Kate Lehrer (Gamma Psi, Texas Christian) – novelist, book reviewer, writer.[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]
• Amy Holmes (Epsilon Mu, Princeton) – journalist, news anchor.[1]
• Harriet Doerr (Phi dueteron, Stanford) – writer.[1]
• Judith Miller (Alpha Gamma, Ohio State) – American journalist.[1]
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Psi, Wisconsin) – author, (The Yearling).[1]
• Suzanne La Follette (Alpha Sigma, Washington State) – author, journalist, and libertarian feminist advocate.[1]
• Isabelle Holland (Alpha Phi, Tulane) – author.[1]
• Kelly Corrigan (Epsilon Psi, Richmond) – author.[1]
• Kate Snow (Iota, Cornell) – anchor for Good Morning America.[1]
• Jean Marzollo (Gamma Zeta, Connecticut) – children's author and illustrator[1]
• Melissa Stark (Delta Chi, Virginia) – newsreporter, Monday Night Football.[1]
• Deb Carson (Epsilon Epsilon, Baylor) – national sports anchor & on-air personality, Fox Sports Radio.[1]
• Anne Marie Pace (Beta Lambda, William and Mary) – children's book author, author of the Vampirina Ballerina series.[11]
• Ida Tarbell (Mu, Allegheny College) – American Journalist.

Miscellaneous

• Jennifer Bertrand (Kappa, Kansas University) – winner of HGTV Design Star season three.[12]
• Katie Lee Joel (Gamma Upsilon, Miami University Ohio) – chef, restaurant critic, former wife of Billy Joel.[1]
• Julia Morgan (Omega, UC Berkeley) – designed the Hearst Castle, first woman to receive the AIA Gold Medal.[1]
• Marion Manley (Delta, Illinois) – received the Gold Medal Award in 1973 from the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects.[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.
• Dorothy Liebes (Omega, UC Berkeley) – "mother of modern weaving".[1]
• Tiffany Trump (Beta Eta, University of Pennsylvania) – model, socialite, law school student, daughter of Donald Trump.[13]

References

1. "Kappa Alpha Theta – Notable Thetas". Kappa Alpha Theta. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
2. "House Resolution 3367". South Carolina Legislature Online. January 30, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
3. "Susan King's Biography". votesmart.org. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
4. Grigoriadis, Vanessa (August 30, 2004), Party Girls, New York Magazine, retrieved 2008-01-05
5. "History of Kappa Alpha Theta". Kappa Alpha Theta – Alpha Theta Chapter. 2007. Archived from the original on 2006-11-21. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
6. http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20112307,00.html
7. Dart, Bon (February 25, 2008), Cindy McCain: A Profile, GJSentinal, retrieved 2008-04-15
8. "Wimbledon belatedly honors past champion". The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. July 2, 2000. Retrieved 2007-08-27.
9. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FKXLY4News%2Fvideos%2F1180124478676490%2F&show_text=0&width=560
10. http://lifeloyal.kappaalphatheta.org/memberdirectory.cfm?chapterId=1131
11. https://issuu.com/theflathat/docs/the_flat_hat_october_6__2015
12. The Kappa Alpha Theta Magazine, Winter 2008
13. https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/08/from-ivanka-trump-to-john-legend-heres-where-penns-most-famous-alumni-lived-on-campus