List of Kappa Alpha Theta sisters
This is a list of notable members of Kappa Alpha Theta, a North American college sorority. This list includes both initiated and honorary members.
Academics
- Elva Bascom - librarian, professor, writer on library science
- Mary Ritter Beard – noted historian, Campaigner for Women's Suffrage.
- Edith Jordan Gardner – educator and suffrage activist
- Maud Menten – physician, scientist.
- Molly Corbett Broad – Served as president of the University of North Carolina, 1997–2006.
- Anna Botsford Comstock – 1st woman appointed to the faculty at Cornell.
- Mary Lee Edward – women's health pioneer and First World War hero.
- Karen Ordahl Kupperman – American historian.
- Elizabeth Gilmore Holt – art historian.
- Dian Fossey – zoologist, first female Primatologist, wrote Gorillas in the Mist.
- Margaret Floy Washburn – the 1st woman to receive a Ph.D. in Psychology.
- Eilene Galloway – researcher and editor.
- Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks – research scientist who discovered methylene blue.
- Gertrude Simmons Burlingham – mycologist, first woman to earn a Ph.D. from Columbia University through the program at the New York Botanical Garden in 1908.
Arts and entertainment
- Ann-Margret – actress,.
- Sarah Clarke – actress,.
- Ronnie Claire Edwards – actress.
- Jacqui Malouf – television host, cook, author.
- Karen Moncrieff – actress, director, screenwriter.
- Dora Mavor Moore – actress, director.
- Marietta DePrima – actress.
- Joan Ganz Cooney – founder of the Children's Television Workshop and creator of Sesame Street.
- Susan Browning – Tony Award-winning actress.
- Nancy Coleman – actress.
- Sara Schaefer – Comedian and host of MTV's "Nikki & Sara Live".
- Sheryl Crow – Grammy Award winning singer.
- Dorothy Hart – actress.
- Agnes de Mille – Broadway choreographer.
- Amy Grant – singer, Grammy Award winner.
- Glenna Goodacre – Sculptor of the Vietnam Women's Memorial, designer of U.S. gold one-dollar coin featuring Sacagawea.
- Marion Dougherty – casting director.
- Amy McKenzie – producer, director, actress.
- Jennifer Jones – Academy Award-winning American actress.
- Rue McClanahan – actress,.
- Laura Lamson – screenwriter.
- Jane Connell – actress.
- Stephanie March – actress,.
- Julie Moran – former host of Entertainment Tonight; first female host of ABC'sWide World of Sports; current host of Insiders List on the Fine Living channel.
- Mary Kay Place – actress,.
- Sasha Alexander – actress
- Marlo Thomas – actress and spokeswoman for St. Jude's Children's Hospital.
- Jenna von Oÿ – actress,.
- Patricia DuBose Duncan – artist.
- Cindy Chupack – Golden Globe & Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer.
- Kate Voegele – singer/songwriter and One Tree Hillactress.
- Maurine Dallas Watkins – playwright,.
- Ashley Zais – Miss South Carolina USA 2007.
- Teal Wicks – singer/actress, best known for playing Elphaba in the musical Wicked
- DaNae Couch – Miss Texas 2012
- Whitney Port – television personality, The Hills
- Cinta Laura – Indonesian movie and pop star
- Valerie Bettis – dancer/choreographer
- Skyler Samuels – Actress
Business
- Tory Burch – fashion designer.
- Melinda Gates – wife of Bill Gates; Co-founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- Dylan Lauren – owner of Dylan's Candy Bar and daughter of fashion designer Ralph Lauren.
- Marjorie Child Husted – creator of Betty Crocker.
- Kira Plastinina – fashion designer.
- Carolyn S. Chambers – owner and CEO of Chambers Communications Corporation
- Tracy Britt Cool – business executive at Berkshire Hathaway.
- Mary Wells Lawrence – advertisement executive, founding president of Wells Rich Greene, first female CEO of a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Politics
- Eva Bertrand Adams – Director of the United States Mint from 1961–1969.
- Karen Koning AbuZayd – Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency from 2005 to 2010
- Pearl Chase – civic leader.
- Joyce Fairbairn – Canadian senator.
- Nancy Kassebaum Baker – 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.
- Frances Cleveland Axtell – one of the first female State Representatives of Washington
- Jeanne Bonds – First female Mayor of Knightdale, NC, Candidate for NC House.
- Barbara Bodine – United States Ambassador to Yemen
- Barbara Brandriff Crabb – Senior United States District Judge.
- Jean Spencer Ashbrook – United States House Representative from Ohio
- Anna Elizabeth Dickinson – influential abolitionist and suffragist.
- Mary Fallin – 1st woman to be elected Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma; 1st woman to be elected Governor of Oklahoma; U.S. House of Representatives.
- Tillie K. Fowler – United States Representative from Florida.
- Barbara Hackman Franklin – 29th U.S. Secretary of Commerce; CEO of Barbara Franklin Enterprises.
- Nancy Hanks – 1st woman to serve as the Chairman of the United States National Endowment for the Arts.
- Susan King – Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Abilene, Texas
- Claire McCaskill – U.S. Congress as Senator from Missouri.
- Adelaide Sinclair – Canadian public servant.
- Margaret Hance – first female mayor of Phoenix, Arizona.
- Shanta Vasisht – Indian parliamentarian
- Barbara Pierce Bush – daughter of President George W. Bush, Co-founder and president of the Global Health Corp.
- Jenna Bush Hager – daughter of President George W. Bush.
- Laura Bush – First Lady of the United States; wife of President George W. Bush.
- Lynne Cheney – 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.
- Victoria Reggie Kennedy – wife of the late Senator Ted Kennedy
- Elizabeth Warren – United States Senator from Massachusetts.
- Cindy Hensley McCain – wife of 2008 presidential candidate Senator John McCain.
Sports
- Pauline Betz – American female tennis player.
- Madonna Buder – Catholic religious sister, Senior Olympian and triathlete record holder
- JoAnne Carner – American professional golfer.
- Ann Curtis – Olympic gold medalist, swimming.
- Linda Gustavson – Olympic swimmer and world record holder.
- Kathy Ellis – Olympic swimmer.
- Helen Jacobs – American female tennis player.
- Kerri Strug – Olympic gymnast.
- Sasha DiGiulian – World Champion rock climber.
- Jane Fauntz – Olympic Bronze Medalist swimmer & diver.
- Louise Brough – American female tennis player.
- Shirley Fry Irvin – tennis player.
- Lucille Ash – Olympic figure skater.
- Pamela Kruse – Olympic silver-medalist swimmer.
- Barbara McIntire – golfer.
- Chierika Ukogu – Olympic rower for Nigeria.
- Christen Press - 2015 Women's World cup Champion for the United States.
- Makenzie Fischer - Olympic Gold Medalist water polo player
- Aria Fischer - Olympic Gold Medalist water polo player
Media
- Carolina Bermudez – radio personality on WHTZ Z100, the biggest Top 40 station in the world.
- Kate Lehrer – novelist, book reviewer, writer.
- Mary Margaret McBride – widely followed radio commentator, journalist, author.
- Kate Millett – American feminist and author.
- Amy Holmes – journalist, news anchor.
- Harriet Doerr – writer.
- Judith Miller – American journalist.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – author,.
- Suzanne La Follette – author, journalist, and libertarian feminist advocate.
- Isabelle Holland – author.
- Kelly Corrigan – author.
- Kate Snow – anchor for Good Morning America.
- Jean Marzollo – children's author and illustrator
- Melissa Stark – newsreporter, Monday Night Football.
- Deb Carson – national sports anchor & on-air personality, Fox Sports Radio.
- Anne Marie Pace – children's book author, author of the Vampirina Ballerina series.
- Ida Tarbell – American Journalist.
Miscellaneous
- Jennifer Bertrand – winner of HGTV Design Star season three.
- Katie Lee Joel – chef, restaurant critic, former wife of Billy Joel.
- Julia Morgan – designed the Hearst Castle, first woman to receive the AIA Gold Medal.
- Marion Manley – received the Gold Medal Award in 1973 from the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects.
- Carol Morris – the second Miss USA to win the Miss Universe title in the pageant's fifth edition in 1956.
- Shelby Ringdahl – 2013 Miss Missouri winner and 2014 Miss America semifinalist.
- Dorothy Liebes – "mother of modern weaving".
- Tiffany Trump – model, socialite, law school student, daughter of Donald Trump.