List of Alpha Delta Pi members
Alpha Delta Pi is an international collegiate sorority. Following is a list of notable Alpha Delta Pi members.
Academia
[edit]- Irene Dillard Elliot (Nu) – first Dean of Women at the University of South Carolina; first woman to receive Ph.D. from USC[1]
- Harriet Elliott (Phi) – Dean of Women at the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro)[1]
- Virginia Trotter (Alpha Eta) – former University of Georgia president[1]
Entertainment
[edit]- Kathy Bates (Alpha Zeta) – actress known for Titanic, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Waterboy, and Failure to Launch[2]
- Alexis Bellino (Alpha Gamma) – cast member of The Real Housewives of Orange County[3]
- Bree Boyce (Zeta Phi) – Miss South Carolina 2011[4]
- Maggie Bridges (Zeta Omicron) – Miss Georgia 2014[1]
- Kate Capshaw (Alpha Gamma) – actress and wife of Steven Spielberg[1]
- Deana Carter (Alpha Kappa) – country singer[1]
- Carrie Coon (Gamma Theta) – actress
- Julia Crane (Gamma Tau) – Miss Vermont 2018[5]
- Jenna Day (Beta Psi) – Miss Kentucky 2013[6]
- Cathy Deupree (Eta) – singer[1]
- Ainsley Earhardt (Iota and Beta Epsilon) – journalist and co-host of FOX & Friends[7]
- Monique Evans (Delta) – Miss Texas 2014[1]
- Karen Fairchild (Kappa) – country singer; member of Little Big Town[8]
- Nancy Grace (Delta Theta) – CNN News host[1]
- Mallory Todd Hudson (Beta Psi) – Miss Kentucky 2023[9]
- Rachael Kirkconnell (Zeta Iota) – television personality[10][11]
- Anna Kooiman (Eta Alpha) – reporter and co-host on FOX & Friends weekend[12]
- Neva Jane Langley (Gamma Gamma) – Miss America, 1953[1]
- Sienna Mascareñas (Eta) – Miss New Mexico 2021; Miss New Mexico's Outstanding Teen 2017[13]
- Danica McKellar (Alpha Chi) – actress[1]
- Lu Parker (Zeta Sigma) – Miss USA 1994; KTLA news correspondent[1]
- Emily Procter (Delta Omicron) – actress[1]
- Ali Rogers (Zeta Nu) – Miss South Carolina 2012–2013, 1st runner-up Miss America 2013[1]
- Jean Smart (Alpha Theta) – actress[1]
- Elle Smith (Beta Psi) – Miss Kentucky USA 2021, Miss USA 2021[14]
- Mary Kate Wiles (Alpha Psi) – actress[15]
- Kylie Williams (Iota) – Miss Florida 2007; contestant on Miss America: Reality Check[1]
- Judy Woodruff (Omicron) – managing editor and anchor of PBS NewsHour[1]
Law
[edit]- Robin Davis (Gamma Kappa) – most senior justice on the Supreme Court of West Virginia[1]
- Maud McLure Kelly (Eta) – lawyer, suffragist, activist; first woman lawyer in Alabama[1]
- Leslie Rutledge (Delta Delta) – Arkansas Attorney General[1]
Literature
[edit]- Lauren Grandcolas (Delta) – author, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93[16]
- Maureen G. Mulvaney (Epsilon Kappa) – author and motivational speaker[1]
- Jessica Nelson North (Theta) – poet and author, editor of Poetry[1]
- Carol Shields (Phi) – author; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1995[1]
Politics
[edit]- Martha B. Alexander (Iota) – North Carolina General Assembly[1]
- Kimberly Berfield (Zeta Omega) – Florida House of Representatives[1]
- Robin Carnahan (Gamma Nu) – Missouri Secretary of State[1]
- Louise Holland Coe (Alpha Nu) – first woman elected to the New Mexico Senate[1]
- Karen Hughes (Alpha Zeta) –Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs[1]
- Jane Stinchfield Knapp (Alpha Delta) – Maine House of Representatives[1]
- Jane Yelvington McCallum (Delta) –Secretary of State of Texas 1926, suffrage activist[1]
- Viola Ross Napier (Adelphean) – first woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly[1]
- Francine Irving Neff (Alpha Nu) – Treasurer of the United States[1]
- Carol Rasco (Delta Delta) – Director of the Domestic Policy Council under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1996[1]
- Jean B. Silver (Alpha Theta) – former member of Washington House of Representatives from 1983 to 1997[1]
Science and medicine
[edit]- Sara Branham Matthews (Alpha) – senior bacteriologist for the United States Public Health Service[1]
- Jessie Gray (Beta Zeta) – Canada's "First Lady of Surgery"[1]
- Katherine Van Winkle Palmer (Alpha Theta) – former director of Paleontological Research Institution, first woman to receive a Ph.D. in Paleontology[1]
- Diane Grob Schmidt (Beta Beta) – chemist, former president of American Chemical Society[1]
Sports
[edit]- Kelli Finglass (Gamma Chi) – director of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders[17]
- Natalie McGiffert (Theta Mu) – 2016 Summer Olympics for Rhythmic Gymnastic
- Sandra Palmer (Gamma Upsilon) – professional golfer[1]
- Summer Rae (Delta Omicron) – former professional wrestler[18]
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- ^ Congratulations, Elle Smith, Alpha Delta Pi, Miss USA 2021!
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