List of Phi Mu members
Phi Mu is an American college women's fraternity. The fraternity was founded at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia as the Philomathean Society in 1852. On June 24, 1904, the society was chartered as a national organization, Phi Mu, in the State of Georgia. Following are some of the notable members of Phi Mu.
Education
- Mary Dorothy Lyndon – educator, the first female graduate from the University of Georgia
Entertainment
- Kathrine Baumann - First runner-up Miss America 1970, American actress, model, and couture handbag designer.
- Andi Dorfman – contestant on The Bachelorette and the Bachelor
- Vivian Fridell – radio actress
- Hannah Godwin – model and contestant on The Bachelor and Bachelor in Paradise
- Frances Greer – opera singer
- Elizabeth Horton – Miss North Carolina and meteorologist
- Dana Ivey – actress and five-time Tony Award nominee
- Hallie Jackson – television reporter and news anchor
- Hayley Lewis – Miss Tennessee 2014 and sports anchor
- Pam Long – Emmy Award winning television producer and writer; head writer for CBS' Guiding Light
- Karrie Martin – actress
- Madeline Mitchell – Miss Alabama USA and Mrs. America 2015
- Pat Mitchell – president and CEO of PBS
- Rachel Reilly – actress and contestant on Big Brother and The Amazing Race
- Joanne Rogers – musician and wife of Fred Rogers
- Kimberly Schlapman – member of Little Big Town
- Mary Wickes – actress know for White Christmas (1954 film), and ''Sister Act''
Law
- Beverly B. Martin – judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- Betty Montgomery – Ohio Attorney General and Ohio State Auditor
- Elizabeth Weaver – former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
- Clara Backus Floyd Gehan – first woman to graduate from the University of Florida School of Law, prominent Florida attorney
Literature
- Charlotte Armstrong – novelist and writer
- Elin Hilderbrand – novelist
- Grace Lumpkin – writer of proletarian literature
- Katharine DuPre Lumpkin – writer and sociologist
- Clarine Coffin Grenfell – poet and writer
- Jill McCorkle – novelist and short story writer
- May Merrill Miller – writer and poet
- Joyce Carol Oates – author and playwright
- Saira Rao – author, publisher, and television producer
- Kathryn Stockett – novelist known for The Help
- Kathrine Taylor – novelist
Politics and activism
- Betty DeGeneres – LGBT rights activist
- Carol C. Laise – U.S. Ambassador to Nepal and first female Assistant Secretary of State
- Melinda Schwegmann – first female Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
- Charlotte Pritt – first major-party woman gubernatorial nominee in West Virginia
Science and technology
- Jerrie Mock – author and first woman to fly solo around the world
- Kathy Pham – computer scientist
- Jackie Ronne – first female member of an Antarctic expedition
- Mary Ellen Weber – NASA astronaut
Sports
- Gayle S. Barron – winner of the Boston Marathon, 1978
- Joan Croanan – basketball coach and first female athletics director at the University of Tennessee
- Iris Cummings – competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Danielle Donehew – president of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame board of directors and executive vice president of the Atlanta Dream