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 (Mu, Allegheny) – librarian, professor, writer on library science
• Mary Ritter Beard (Alpha, DePauw) – noted historian, campaigner for women's suffrage^[1]
• Molly Corbett Broad (Chi, Syracuse) – 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) – first woman appointed to the faculty at Cornell^[1]
• Mary Lee Edward (Sigma, Toronto) – women's health pioneer and World War I hero^[1]
• Dian Fossey (Gamma Xi, San Jose State) – zoologist, first female primatologist, wrote Gorillas in the Mist^[1]
• Eilene Galloway (Alpha Iota, Washington University in St. Louis) – researcher and editor^[1]
• Edith Jordan Gardner (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) – educator and suffrage activist
• Elizabeth Gilmore Holt (Psi, Wisconsin) – art historian^[1]
• Samantha Joye (Delta Xi, UNC Chapel Hill) – oceanographer^[2]
• Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Alpha Mu, Missouri) – American historian^[1]
• Maud Menten (Sigma, Toronto) – physician, scientist^[1]
• Margaret Floy Washburn (Iota, Cornell) – first woman to receive a Ph.D. in Psychology^[1]

Arts and entertainment

• Sasha Alexander (Omicron, USC) – actress (NCIS, Rizzoli & Isles)
• Ann-Margret (Tau, Northwestern) – actress (State Fair, Viva Las Vegas, Grumpy Old Men)^[1]
• Valerie Bettis – (Alpha Theta, Texas-Austin) dancer/choreographer^[1]
• Susan Browning (Beta Phi, Penn State) – Tony Award-winning actress^[1]
• Melanie Chandra (Phi Deuteron, Stanford University - actress (Code Black)^[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 University in St. Louis) – artist^[1]
• Cindy Chupack (Tau, Northwestern) – Golden Globe & Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer^[1]
• 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 actress^[1]
• Laura Lamson (Gamma deuteron, Ohio Wesleyan) – screenwriter^[1]
• Cinta Laura – (Epsilon Upsilon, Columbia) Indonesian movie and pop star
• Jacqui Malouf (Gamma Epsilon, Western Ontario) – television host, cook, author^[1]
• Stephanie March (Tau, Northwestern) – actress (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)^[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's Wide 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, College of William & 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 Hill actress^[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
• Bea Millan-Windorski (Psi, Wisconsin) -Miss Earth USA(2024), Miss Earth Water(2024).
• Ashley Zais (Zeta Eta, Wofford College, SC) – Miss South Carolina USA 200^[3]

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]
• Prerna Gupta (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) – CEO of Telepathic Inc.^[4]
• Elizabeth Holmes (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) – founder and former CEO of now-defunct Theranos, convicted of criminal fraud^[5]
• 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^[6]

Politics

• Karen Koning AbuZayd (Alpha, DePauw) – Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, 2005–2010
• Eva Bertrand Adams (Beta Mu, Nevada) – Director of the United States Mint 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; 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.^[7]
• 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 of 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) – first 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^[7][8]
• 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^[9]
• Susan King (Alpha Theta, University of Texas) – Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Abilene, Texas^[10]
• Cindy Hensley McCain (Omicron, USC) – 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^[11]
• Claire McCaskill (Alpha Mu, Missouri) – U.S. Congress Senator from Missouri^[1]
• Jeanne Milliken Bonds (Delta Xi, UNC Chapel Hill) – politician; served as mayor of Knightdale, Deputy Director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts.
• Adelaide Sinclair (Sigma, Toronto) – Canadian public servant^[1]
• Shanta Vasisht – Indian parliamentarian
• Elizabeth Warren (Gamma Kappa, George Washington University) – United States Senator from Massachusetts
• Gretchen Whitmer (Beta Pi, Michigan State University) – 49th governor of Michigan^[1]

Sports

• Lucille Ash (Beta Omega, Colorado) – Olympic figure skater^[1]
• Pauline Betz (Gamma Gamma, Rollins) – tennis player^[12]
• Louise Brough (Omicron, Southern California) – tennis player^[1]
• Madonna Buder (Alpha Iota, Washington University in St. Louis) – Catholic religious sister, Senior Olympian and triathlete record holder^[13]
• JoAnne Carner (Delta Epsilon, Arizona State) – 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 and diver^[1]
• Aria Fischer (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) – Olympic gold medalist water polo player
• Makenzie Fischer (Phi Deuteron, 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) – tennis player^[1]
• Pamela Kruse (Beta Pi, Michigan State) – Olympic silver-medalist swimmer^[1]
• Barbara McIntire (Gamma Gamma, Rollins) – golfer^[1]
• Christen Press (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) – 2015 Women's World Cup champion for the US
• 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 WMAR-2 News in Baltimore, MD; former meteorologist at WKYT-TV in Lexington, KY^[1]
• Deb Carson (Epsilon Epsilon, Baylor) – national sports anchor and on-air personality, Fox Sports Radio^[1]
• Kelly Corrigan (Epsilon Psi, Richmond) – author^[1]
• Harriet Doerr (Phi Deuteron, 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]
• Alexi McCammond (Epsilon Phi, Chicago) – political reporter, Axios^[1][14]
• Judith Miller (Alpha Gamma, Ohio State) – journalist^[1]
• Kate Millett (Upsilon, Minnesota) – feminist and author^[1]
• Anne Marie Pace (Beta Lambda, William and Mary) – children's book author, author of the Vampirina Ballerina series^[15]
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Psi, Wisconsin) – author (The Yearling)^[1]
• Kate Snow (Iota, Cornell) – anchor for Good Morning America^[1]
• Melissa Stark (Delta Chi, Virginia) – news reporter, Monday Night Football^[1]
• Ida Tarbell (Mu, Allegheny College) – journalist

Miscellaneous

• Jennifer Bertrand (Kappa, University of Kansas) – winner of HGTV Design Star season three^[16]
• Neilia Hunter Biden (Chi, Syracuse) – teacher, first wife of Joe Biden
• 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]
• Edith McAllister (University of Texas at Austin) — civic leader and philanthropist in San Antonio, Texas^[17]
• Julia Morgan (Omega, UC Berkeley) – designed the Hearst Castle, first woman to receive the AIA Gold Medal^[1]
• Carol Morris (Beta Kappa, Drake) – 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^[18]