List of Kappa Alpha Theta members
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 – librarian, professor, writer on library science
- Mary Ritter Beard – noted historian, campaigner for women's suffrage
- Molly Corbett Broad – president of the University of North Carolina, 1997–2006
- 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
- Anna Botsford Comstock – first woman appointed to the faculty at Cornell
- Mary Lee Edward – women's health pioneer and World War I hero
- Dian Fossey – zoologist, first female primatologist, wrote Gorillas in the Mist
- Eilene Galloway – researcher and editor
- Edith Jordan Gardner – educator and suffrage activist
- Elizabeth Gilmore Holt – art historian
- Samantha Joye – oceanographer
- Karen Ordahl Kupperman – American historian
- Maud Menten – physician, scientist
- Margaret Floy Washburn – first woman to receive a Ph.D. in Psychology
Arts and entertainment
- Sasha Alexander – actress
- Ann-Margret – actress
- Valerie Bettis – dancer/choreographer
- Susan Browning – Tony Award-winning actress
- Melanie Chandra
- Sarah Clarke – actress
- Nancy Coleman – actress
- Jane Connell – actress
- Joan Ganz Cooney – founder of the Children's Television Workshop and creator of Sesame Street
- DaNae Couch – Miss Texas 2012
- Sheryl Crow – Grammy Award-winning singer
- Agnes de Mille – Broadway choreographer
- Marietta DePrima – actress
- Marion Dougherty – casting director
- Patricia DuBose Duncan – artist
- Cindy Chupack – Golden Globe & Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer
- Ronnie Claire Edwards – actress
- Glenna Goodacre – sculptor of the Vietnam Women's Memorial, designer of U.S. gold one-dollar coin featuring Sacagawea
- Amy Grant – singer, Grammy Award winner
- Dorothy Hart – actress
- Jennifer Jones – Academy Award-winning actress
- Laura Lamson – screenwriter
- Cinta Laura – Indonesian movie and pop star
- Mallory James Mahoney – actress
- Jacqui Malouf – television host, cook, author
- Stephanie March – actress
- Rue McClanahan – actress
- Amy McKenzie – producer, director, actress
- Karen Moncrieff – actress, director, screenwriter
- Dora Mavor Moore – actress, director
- Julie Moran – former host of Entertainment Tonight; first female host of ABC's Wide World of Sports; current host of Insiders List on the Fine Living channel
- Carol Morris – Miss USA, Miss Universe
- Mary Kay Place – actress
- Skyler Samuels – actress
- Sara Schaefer – comedian and host of MTV's Nikki & Sara Live
- Marlo Thomas – actress and spokeswoman for St. Jude's Children's Hospital
- Kate Voegele – singer/songwriter and One Tree Hill actress
- Jenna von Oÿ – actress
- Maurine Dallas Watkins – playwright
- Teal Wicks – singer/actress, best known for playing Elphaba in the musical Wicked
- Bea Millan-Windorski -Miss Earth USA, Miss Earth Water.
- Ashley Zais – Miss South Carolina USA 200
Business
- Tory Burch – fashion designer
- Carolyn S. Chambers – owner and CEO of Chambers Communications Corporation
- Tracy Britt Cool – business executive at Berkshire Hathaway
- Melinda Gates – former wife of Bill Gates; co-founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Prerna Gupta – CEO of Telepathic Inc.
- Elizabeth Holmes – founder and former CEO of now-defunct Theranos, convicted of criminal fraud
- Marjorie Child Husted – creator of Betty Crocker
- Dylan Lauren – owner of Dylan's Candy Bar and daughter of fashion designer Ralph Lauren
- Mary Wells Lawrence – advertisement executive, founding president of Wells Rich Greene, first female CEO of a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange
- Kira Plastinina – fashion designer
- Hope Skillman Schary – textile designer, founder and chief executive of Skillmill
Politics
- Karen Koning AbuZayd – Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, 2005–2010
- Eva Bertrand Adams – Director of the United States Mint 1961–1969
- Jean Spencer Ashbrook – United States House Representative from Ohio
- Frances Cleveland Axtell – one of the first female State Representatives of Washington
- Nancy Kassebaum Baker – former United States Senator; first woman elected to the United States Senate who had not succeeded her husband or first been appointed to fill an unexpired term
- Barbara Bodine – United States Ambassador to Yemen
- Barbara Pierce Bush – daughter of President George W. Bush; co-founder and president of the Global Health Corp.
- Laura Bush – First Lady of the United States; wife of President George W. Bush
- Pearl Chase – civic leader
- Lynne Cheney – chair, National Endowment for the Humanities; Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; director, Reader's Digest; former co-host of CNN's Crossfire; Second Lady of the United States; wife of Vice President Dick Cheney
- Barbara Brandriff Crabb – Senior United States District Judge
- Anna Elizabeth Dickinson – influential abolitionist and suffragist
- Joyce Fairbairn – Canadian senator
- Mary Fallin – first 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
- Jenna Bush Hager – daughter of President George W. Bush
- Margaret Hance – first female mayor of Phoenix, Arizona
- Nancy Hanks – 1st woman to serve as the Chairman of the United States National Endowment for the Arts
- Victoria Reggie Kennedy – wife of the late Senator Ted Kennedy
- Susan King – Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Abilene, Texas
- Cindy Hensley McCain – 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
- Claire McCaskill – U.S. Congress Senator from Missouri
- Jeanne Milliken Bonds – politician; served as mayor of Knightdale, deputy director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts.
- Adelaide Sinclair – Canadian public servant
- Shanta Vasisht – Indian parliamentarian
- Elizabeth Warren – United States Senator from Massachusetts
- Gretchen Whitmer – 49th governor of Michigan
Sports
- Lucille Ash – Olympic figure skater
- Pauline Betz – tennis player
- Louise Brough – tennis player
- Madonna Buder – Catholic religious sister, Senior Olympian and triathlete record holder
- JoAnne Carner – professional golfer
- Ann Curtis – Olympic gold medalist, swimming
- Sasha DiGiulian – world champion rock climber
- Kathy Ellis – Olympic swimmer
- Jane Fauntz – Olympic bronze medalist swimmer and diver
- Aria Fischer – Olympic gold medalist water polo player
- Makenzie Fischer – Olympic gold medalist water polo player
- Linda Gustavson – Olympic swimmer and world record holder
- Shirley Fry Irvin – tennis player
- Helen Jacobs – tennis player
- Pamela Kruse – Olympic silver-medalist swimmer
- Barbara McIntire – golfer
- Christen Press – 2015 Women's World Cup champion for the US
- Kerri Strug – Olympic gymnast
- Chierika Ukogu – Olympic rower for Nigeria
Media
- Carolina Bermudez – radio personality on WHTZ Z100, the biggest Top 40 station in the world
- Ally Blake – broadcast meteorologist at WFTS Tampa Bay 28 in Tampa, Florida; former meteorologist at WMAR-2 News in Baltimore, MD &WKYT-TV in Lexington, KY
- Deb Carson – national sports anchor and on-air personality, Fox Sports Radio
- Kelly Corrigan – author
- Harriet Doerr – writer
- Clara Elizabeth Fanning – editor
- Isabelle Holland – author
- Amy Holmes – journalist, news anchor
- Suzanne La Follette – author, journalist, and libertarian feminist advocate
- Kate Lehrer – novelist, book reviewer, writer
- Jean Marzollo – children's author and illustrator
- Mary Margaret McBride – widely followed radio commentator, journalist, author
- Alexi McCammond – political reporter, Axios
- Judith Miller – journalist
- Kate Millett – feminist and author
- Anne Marie Pace – children's book author, author of the Vampirina Ballerina series
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – author
- Kate Snow – anchor for Good Morning America
- Melissa Stark – news reporter, Monday Night Football
- Ida Tarbell – journalist
Miscellaneous
- Jennifer Bertrand – winner of HGTV Design Star season three
- Neilia Hunter Biden – teacher, first wife of Joe Biden
- Katie Lee Joel – chef, restaurant critic, former wife of Billy Joel
- Dorothy Liebes – "mother of modern weaving"
- Marion Manley – received the Gold Medal Award in 1973 from the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects
- Edith McAllister — civic leader and philanthropist in San Antonio, Texas
- Julia Morgan – designed the Hearst Castle, first woman to receive the AIA Gold Medal
- Carol Morris – 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
- Tiffany Trump – socialite, law school graduate, daughter of Donald Trump