List of Kappa Alpha Theta members

Business

• Tory Burch (Beta Eta, University of Pennsylvania) – fashion designer
• Carolyn S. Chambers (Alpha Xi, Oregon) – owner and CEO of Chambers Communications Corporation
• Tracy Britt Cool (Zeta Xi) – business executive at Berkshire Hathaway
• Melinda Gates (Beta Rho, Duke) – former wife of Bill Gates; co-founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Prerna Gupta (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) – CEO of Telepathic Inc.
• Elizabeth Holmes (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) – founder and former CEO of now-defunct Theranos, convicted of criminal fraud
• Marjorie Child Husted (Upsilon, Minnesota) – creator of Betty Crocker
• 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
• Kira Plastinina (Beta Sigma, Southern Methodist) – fashion designer
• Hope Skillman Schary (Alpha Delta, Goucher) – textile designer, founder and chief executive of Skillmill

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
• Jean Spencer Ashbrook (Alpha Gamma, Ohio State) – United States House Representative from Ohio
• Frances Cleveland Axtell (Alpha, DePauw) – one of the first female State Representatives of Washington
• 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
• Barbara Bodine (Gamma Rho, UC Santa Barbara) – United States Ambassador to Yemen
• Barbara Pierce Bush (Epsilon Tau, Yale University) – daughter of President George W. Bush; co-founder and president of the Global Health Corp.
• Laura Bush (Beta Sigma, Southern Methodist) – First Lady of the United States; wife of President George W. Bush
• Pearl Chase (Omega, UC Berkeley) – civic leader
• 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
• Barbara Brandriff Crabb (Psi, Wisconsin) – Senior United States District Judge
• Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (Alpha, DePauw) – influential abolitionist and suffragist
• Joyce Fairbairn (Beta Chi, Alberta) – Canadian senator
• 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
• Tillie K. Fowler (Delta Zeta, Emory) – United States Representative from Florida
• Barbara Hackman Franklin (Beta Phi, Penn State) – 29th U.S. Secretary of Commerce; CEO of Barbara Franklin Enterprises
• Jenna Bush Hager (Alpha Theta, University of Texas) – daughter of President George W. Bush
• Margaret Hance (Beta Delta, Arizona) – first female mayor of Phoenix, Arizona
• Nancy Hanks (Beta Rho, Duke) – 1st woman to serve as the Chairman of the United States National Endowment for the Arts
• Victoria Reggie Kennedy (Alpha Phi, Tulane) – wife of the late Senator Ted Kennedy
• Susan King (Alpha Theta, University of Texas) – Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Abilene, Texas
• 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
• Claire McCaskill (Alpha Mu, Missouri) – U.S. Congress Senator from Missouri
• Tricia McLaughlin, political spokesperson
• 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
• 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

Sports

• Lucille Ash (Beta Omega, Colorado) – Olympic figure skater
• Pauline Betz (Gamma Gamma, Rollins) – tennis player
• Louise Brough (Omicron, Southern California) – tennis player
• Madonna Buder (Alpha Iota, Washington University in St. Louis) – Catholic religious sister, Senior Olympian and triathlete record holder
• JoAnne Carner (Delta Epsilon, Arizona State) – professional golfer
• Ann Curtis (Omega, UC Berkeley) – Olympic gold medalist, swimming (1948)
• Sasha DiGiulian (Epsilon Upsilon, Columbia) – world champion rock climber
• Kathy Ellis (Beta, Indiana) – Olympic swimmer
• Jane Fauntz (Delta, Illinois) – Olympic bronze medalist swimmer and diver
• 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
• Shirley Fry Irvin (Gamma Gamma, Rollins) – tennis player
• Helen Jacobs (Omega, UC Berkeley) – tennis player
• Pamela Kruse (Beta Pi, Michigan State) – Olympic silver-medalist swimmer
• Barbara McIntire (Gamma Gamma, Rollins) – golfer
• Christen Press (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) – 2015 Women's World Cup champion for the US
• Kerri Strug (Beta Xi, UCLA) – Olympic gymnast
• Chierika Ukogu (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) – Olympic rower for Nigeria

Media

• Carolina Bermudez (Delta Epsilon, Arizona State) – radio personality on WHTZ Z100 (New York), the biggest Top 40 station in the world
• Ally Blake (Theta Theta, North Carolina State University) – 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 (Epsilon Epsilon, Baylor) – national sports anchor and on-air personality, Fox Sports Radio
• Kelly Corrigan (Epsilon Psi, Richmond) – author
• Harriet Doerr (Phi Deuteron, Stanford) – writer
• Clara Elizabeth Fanning (Upsilon, Minnesota) – editor
• Isabelle Holland (Alpha Phi, Tulane) – author
• Amy Holmes (Epsilon Mu, Princeton) – journalist, news anchor
• Suzanne La Follette (Alpha Sigma, Washington State) – author, journalist, and libertarian feminist advocate
• Kate Lehrer (Gamma Psi, Texas Christian) – novelist, book reviewer, writer
• Jean Marzollo (Gamma Zeta, Connecticut) – children's author and illustrator
• Mary Margaret McBride (Alpha Mu, Missouri) – widely followed radio commentator, journalist, author (1935–1955)
• Alexi McCammond (Epsilon Phi, Chicago) – political reporter, Axios
• Judith Miller (Alpha Gamma, Ohio State) – journalist
• Kate Millett (Upsilon, Minnesota) – feminist and author
• Anne Marie Pace (Beta Lambda, William and Mary) – children's book author, author of the Vampirina Ballerina series
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Psi, Wisconsin) – author (The Yearling)
• Kate Snow (Iota, Cornell) – anchor for Good Morning America
• Melissa Stark (Delta Chi, Virginia) – news reporter, Monday Night Football
• Ida Tarbell (Mu, Allegheny College) – journalist

Miscellaneous

• Jennifer Bertrand (Kappa, University of Kansas) – winner of HGTV Design Star season three
• 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
• Dorothy Liebes (Omega, UC Berkeley) – "mother of modern weaving"
• Marion Manley (Delta, Illinois) – received the Gold Medal Award in 1973 from the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects
• Edith McAllister (University of Texas at Austin) — civic leader and philanthropist in San Antonio, Texas
• Julia Morgan (Omega, UC Berkeley) – designed the Hearst Castle, first woman to receive the AIA Gold Medal
• Carol Morris (Beta Kappa, Drake) – second Miss USA to win the Miss Universe title, in the pageant's fifth edition in 1956
• 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

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