Famous / Notable Phis

Alpha Phi is proud of all of our distinguished alumnae. The following is only a sample of Alpha Phis who have distinguished themselves in their careers and state, provincial, national or international communities. If you know a distinguished alumna who should be listed, send her name, affiliation and contact information to quarterly@alphaphi.org.

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Health and Medicine                                         Sports and Fitness

Art and Culture

Marney Duckworth (Delta Xi-Nebraska/Kearney) Mrs. America 2007 and Mrs. Colorado 2006.

Betsy Joyce Kinney (Omega-Texas) Texas Sculpture Association president and a professional Limoges box artist for more than 25 sororities, civic organizations, the states of Mississippi and Tennessee and nonprofit theater groups. (See Winter 1997 Quarterly).

Patricia Blachly Meadows (Omega-Texas) Curator of the Texas Sculpture Garden, owner of Art Connections, former curator of the Dallas Visual Art Center (1986-1998), former exhibition director of the Texas State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (1987-1999), co-founder of D'Art Visual Art Center, listed in Who's Who in American Art .

Elizabeth Mackay Ratcliff (Lambda-UC/Berkeley) Retired school teacher and originator of the idea for the National Peace Garden in Washington, D.C.

Julee Rosso (Βeta Βeta-Michigan State) Founded Silver Palate gourmet food shop. Co-author of The Silver Palate Cookbook, The New Basics Cookbook, The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook and Parade magazine column. Co-owner of Wickwood Inn in Saugatuck, Mich., “one of the top 50 small resorts, inns and spas in the US,” according to the Zagat Review.
 
Kelly Stribling Sutherland (Gamma Iota-Texas Tech) Artist. Created four paintings for 1995 Holidays at the White House guide. Creator of 1987 and 1995 Neiman Marcus catalog covers and Fall 1988 Quarterly cover. Named 1986 Southwest Illustrator of the Year by Adweek magazine.

Ann Lee Thompson (Gamma-DePauw) Artist. Winner of cover contest for The Saturday Evening Post. Created Spring 1986 Quarterly cover.

Gale Martin Waddell (Βeta Gamma-Colorado) Watercolorist. Past president of New Mexico Watercolor Society, art teacher at continuing education of University of New Mexico, art featured in American Artist magazine.

Alice Waters (Gamma Beta-UC/Santa Barbara)  Executive chef and owner of Chez Panisse, named Best Restaurant in America by Gourmet magazine in 2001. Alice has received numerous awards including Bon Appetit magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and the James Beard Humanitarian Award in 1997. Alice was named Best Chef in America by the James Beard Foundation, and Cuisine et Vins de France listed her as one of the 10 best chefs in the world in 1986. Created the Chez Panisse Foundation to help underwrite cultural and education programs.

Business and Nonprofit

   Nancy Austin (Βeta Delta-UCLA) Business consultant, author, lecturer. Internationally recognized authority on cutting-edge management. President of Nancy K. Austin, Inc., Northern California (since 1985). Contributing editor and management columnist for Working Woman magazine. Co-author of 1989 best-seller Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference and author of The Assertive Woman: A New Look. Speakers Platform™ called her "the most sought after woman keynote speaker in American business." Contributing editor and writer for Inc. magazine.

   Sheree Clark (Αlpha Lambda-Alumna Initiate) Founder and co-owner of Sayles Graphic Design in Des Moines, Iowa. Some of the firm’s award-winning work is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution’s CooperHewitt National Design Museum and the United States Library of Congress. Past president of the Advertising Professionals of Des Moines. Owner of Art/Smart Consulting. A Des Moines Register “Up and Comer” and author of Creative Direct Mail Design, Get Noticed: Self Promotion for Creative Professionals.

   Linda Funk (Gamma Sigma-Wisconsin/Stout) Executive director of The Soyfoods Council, working to increase the national awareness of soyfood products.

Nannette Hegerty (Delta Psi-Wisconsin/Oshkosh) First female chief of the Milwaukee, Wis., police department.

   Jandy Thompson Hegy (Delta Beta-Texas A&M/Commerce) Vice president of John Bowles Company. One of the Dallas Business Journal’s, “Top 40 Under 40." 

Susan Lacek (Epsilon Delta-Northern Illinois) Founder of Faith’s Lodge, a refuge for families who have a seriously ill child or have suffered the loss of a child. In 2005, she led the effort to get legislation passed in Minnesota to allow parents of stillborn children to receive legal birth certificates.

Mabel Cooper Haeberly Lamb (Omega-Texas)  Magazine/newspaper writer in 1920s. First woman to fly over Mexico and Central America in a single-engine plane. Established Mabel C. Lamb, Inc., a multi-million dollar real estate business (1951). First woman member, later secretary and vice-president of the New Canaan Chamber of Commerce. International director of programs (1948-52), international vice president of Alpha Phi (1952-54). Alpha Phi Foundation trustee. Established an Alpha Phi undergraduate scholarship. Recipient of Frances E. Willard award (1990).

Elizabeth Thompson Smith Lamb (Omega-Texas)  Executive Board trustee of Alpha Phi (1952-54), Constitution Committee chairman (1952-54), Colonization Committee for Gamma Eta at the University of North Texas, International Executive Board director of finance (1954-56), International president of Alpha Phi (1958-61).

Tara Lawrence (Iota Alpha-Pepperdine) Founder of “Hats Off for Cancer,” an organization dedicated to assisting children who have lost their hair from cancer.

Deborah Lippmann (Gamma Pi-Arizona State) Celebrity manicurist and nail expert with her own line called the “Lippmann Collection.”  Celebrity loyalists include Sarah Jessica Parker, Mariah Carey, Martha Stewart, Cher, Demi Moore, Mary J. Blige, Kelly Ripa, Faith Hill, Renee Zellweger and Gwyneth Paltrow. Also a jazz singer with her first album, “Nightingale.”

Kathy Mason (Xi-Toronto) President of Junior League of Fort Collins, Colorado, a quickly-growing service organization dedicated to building communities through volunteer work.

   Janet Murguia (Gamma Delta-Kansas) First female president/CEO of National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest Hispanic advocacy organization in the U.S. Former deputy assistant to President Clinton. Former deputy campaign manager for the Gore/Lieberman 2000 presidential campaign. Former executive vice chancellor for university relations at Kansas University (2001). Awards: Latino Leaders magazine’s “101 Top Leaders of the Hispanic Community” (2007), Hispanic magazine’s “Powerful Latinos 2007” and Washingtonian's “100 Most Powerful Women in Washington” (2006).

   Lisa Pierozzi (Βeta Delta-UCLA) Accountant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Inc., the third largest privately owned organization in the United States. Co-lead partner on Oscar® balloting team, tabulating Academy Award® winners for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1998. (See Winter 2000 and Fall 2001 Quarterlies).

Jill Muchow Rode (Gamma Beta-UC/Santa Barbara) Development director for the Santa Barbara Zoo. Former development director for the Santa Barbara Symphony and former president of the Junior League of Santa Barbara.

Alice Leyland Smitherman (Beta Epsilon-Arizona) President of the American Dietetic Association (1986).

Susanne Solomon (Delta-Cornell) Owner of Baby Greek, Inc., selling Greek-lettered baby gifts and clothes, the first business of its kind in the U.S. (see Spring 2000 Quarterly).

Christina Thompson (Phi-Oklahoma) President of the American Biological Safety Association.

Joanne Ulnick (Beta Beta-Michigan State), CEO of Ducker Worldwide, Troy, Mich., a company that provides global assistance to clients from automotive and other sectors. Honored by the National Association of Women Business Owners Greater Detroit chapter with a 2007 Global Business Award.

Education

Josefina Castillo Baltodano (Delta Psi-Wisconsin/Oshkosh) President of Marian College in Fond du Lac, Wis. Former executive vice president for Alliant International University in California. Former chair of the national network executive board for the American Council on Education’s Office of Women in Higher Education and national chair of the U.S. Department of Education’s Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. Awarded the Special Congressional Recognition for Outstanding and Invaluable Service to the Community, presented by U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

Connie Goldsmith Crittenden (Βeta Βeta-Michigan State) Elementary science teacher. Received Science Teacher of the Year award (1994), McAuliffe Fellow Award (1995), Impressions 5 Science Educator of the Year (1995) and Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (1998).

Joan Hochschild (Beta-Northwestern) Superintendent of schools in Wilmette, Ill., and Grayslake, Ill.

Jayne Gebauer Kasten (Οmicron-Missouri) Director of school/business partnerships for community, career and technical education. Recipient of Dr. Myra Sadker Educational Equity Award (1998), Missouri Outstanding Business Educator Award (1997), Outstanding Community Educator of Missouri Award (1997) and Delta Pi Epsilon Distinguished Service Award (1989).

Carolynne Bond Kent (Gamma Lambda-Houston) Elementary teacher. Birmingham Outstanding Panhellenic Woman of the Year (1982). Listed in Who’s Who in American Education and The World of Who’s Who of Women.

Valerie Schuck L’Huillier (Gamma Eta-North Texas) Teacher. Listed in the 1995 Who’s Who in American Education.

Jean Schober Morrell (Βeta Οmicron-Bowling Green State) University of Northern Colorado dean of students and vice president of student affairs. Recipient of UNC Outstanding Professional Administrative Staff Person of the Year Award, Susan B. Anthony Award, "9 Who Care" KBTV Outstanding Volunteer Award and University of Northern Colorado Outstanding Service Award.

Patty Holmes Myers (Chi-Montana) Chairperson on the Board of Public Education in Montana; received the Teacher of the Year Award and the Milken Family Foundation National Educator award in 1998.

Goldie Horton Porter (Omega-Texas) A founder of the Texas (Omega) chapter. One of the University of Texas' earliest female professors. The first woman to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Texas. Taught at Texas from 1917 to 1966, when she was given the title of professor emeritus of mathematics. Member of the American Association of University Women and a founder of its Texas chapter. As chairman of a committee on graduate education, instrumental in the founding of the graduate school at The University of Texas and aided in the founding of UT's McDonald Observatory.

Catherine Crutchfield Schifter (Gamma Iota-Texas Tech) Associate professor, assistant dean, director of academic technology and faculty fellow for the Teaching Learning Center in the College of Education at Temple University, Philadelphia. Carnegie Teaching Scholar (2000-01), Carnegie Foundation fellow.

Public Service

Elaine Bland Baxter (Βeta Αlpha-Illinois) Iowa secretary of state (1987-94). Former member of the Iowa House of Representatives for three terms. Appointed to Humanities Iowa board of directors by Iowa Gov. Thomas Vilsack.

Nancy Osborn Brataas (Εpsilon-Minnesota) Retired Minnesota state senator (1975-92). The first woman senator in Minnesota history to be elected in her own right. Minority chairperson of the Senate employment committee (1978-92). President/owner of Nancy Brataas Associates, Inc..

   Becky Cook Cain (Βeta Ιota-West Virginia) Past national president of the League of Women Voters (1992-98). President and CEO of the Greater Kanawha Valley Community Foundation (see Fall 2001 Quarterly). Named one of the most powerful women in politics in Ladies’ Home Journal (1996). Worked to achieve campaign finance reform in Congress as the president of Campaign for America.

Marjorie "Bunny" Lawrence Clement (Βeta Gamma-Colorado) Jefferson County, Colo., commissioner (1981-93). Appointed to succeed her late husband and re-elected for three terms.

Annemarie Conroy (Lambda-UC/Berkeley) Youngest member to sit on San Francisco's board of supervisors (1992). Executive director of Treasure Island Development Authority, San Francisco. Current Emergency Services executive director, San Francisco.

Mary Prior Dambman (Gamma Theta-Colorado College) Former Colorado state representative.

Georgia Neese Gray (Upsilon-Washburn) First woman treasurer of the United States (1949-53), appointed by President Harry Truman. Past president of Alpha Phi International.

Pauline Kubala Gubbels (Omega-Texas) First female president of the Albuquerque City Council (1989), former New Mexico state representative (1994), president of the National Order of Women Legislators, president of the Albuquerque Rotary Charitable Foundation and winner of an Alpha Phi Ursa Major Award (1988).

Charlene Prince Lawrence (Βeta Βeta-Michigan State) Retired police chief. First female captain of the Indianapolis police department (1985-97).

   Charlene Lugar (Beta Kappa-Denison) Vice-chair of the board of trustees for the National March of Dimes (1990). Chair of Mothers March of Dimes. Received the March of Dimes Partners in Science Award. Established the Charlene S. Lugar Birth Defects Grant Fund and personally raised nearly $1 million for health education and medical services programs in Indianapolis.

Grace Lockhart McCarthy (Βeta Αlpha-Illinois) Three-time mayor of Pacifica, Calif. Civic leader. Recipient of Robert J. Koshiand Prize from the Peninsula Community Foundation.

Shirley Pugh McLoughlin (Xi-Toronto and Βeta Theta-British Columbia) Councillor for the Town of Comox, British Columbia. First woman leader of the Liberal Party in British Columbia (1981).

   Allison Cink Rickels (Epsilon Theta-Northern Iowa) CEO/executive director of Farmhouse Foundation, the first woman executive director of a men’s fraternity educational foundation (since 2007).

Polly Cutler Rosenbaum (Βeta Gamma-Colorado) Arizona state representative continuously for 46 years (1949-94).

Bonnie McCulloch Scott (Delta Mu-Purdue) Lt. commander in the U.S. Navy, one of only 25 women out of more than 5,000 commanding officers in the Navy.

Diane Steed (Gamma Delta-Kansas) President, Coalition for Vehicle Choice (since 1991). Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) (1983-89). Founder of SUV Owners of America (SUVOA) and executive director of the Roadway Safety Foundation.

Nancy Harvey Steorts (Αlpha-Syracuse) President of Nancy Harvey Steorts International consulting firm. Former chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission under President Ronald Reagan. Consultant to the director of the U.S. Office on Consumer Affairs at the White House and as special assistant for consumer affairs to the secretary of agriculture during the Nixon and Ford administrations. Author of Safety and You (1999) and Safe Living In A Dangerous World (2003).

   Eileen Hurney Stevens (Αlpha Lambda-Alumna Initiate) Founded CHUCK (Committee to Halt Useless College Killings) to bring about awareness of hazing practices. One of 10 Women of the Year, New York Daily News (1993).

Adis Vila (Beta Lambda-Rollins) Assistant secretary of agriculture (1989). One of 14 White House fellows (1982-83). Named one of “The 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the United States,” “10 Outstanding Young Women of America for 1983” and Good Housekeeping’s "100 Women of Promise" (1985).

Bishop Catherine Maples Waynick (Εpsilon Ζeta-Central Michigan) Ordained priest. One of only eight women bishops in the U.S. Episcopal Church.

   Erin Weed (Zeta Alpha-Eastern Illinois) Author, speaker. Founder and executive director of Girls Fight Back, an education company dedicated to teaching women of all ages about personal safety and self-defense. Wrote Girls Fight Back. 

Frances E. Willard (Alpha Lambda-Alumna Initiate) The first woman represented among America’s great leaders in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. President of Evanston College for Ladies. First dean of women at Northwestern University. Helped organize the Chicago Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (1874). President and founder of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (1879). President of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (1891). President of the National Council of Women. National president of Alpha Phi (1887).

MaryAnne Wilsbacher (Beta Iota-West Virginia)  Assistant United States Trustee, Columbus, Ohio.

Lynn Robinson Woolsey (Sigma-Washington) Elected to her eighth term as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the Sixth Congressional District in California (since 1992).

Health and Medicine

Dr. Joann Boughman (Βeta Τau-Indiana) Geneticist. Executive vice president of the American Society of Human Genetics, working with the Human Genome Project. Vice president of the American Board of Medical Genetics. Founding fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics. Advisor to the Maryland Science Center. Served on the secretary’s advisory committee on genetic testing, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1999). Commissioner of higher education for the Sate of Maryland. Named among “Maryland’s Top 100 Women” (1997, 1999, 2001).

Dr. Sophie DeAberle Brophy (Lambda-UC/Berkeley) Specialist in Indian affairs. First practicing applied anthropologist in the United States. Superintendent of the United Pueblos Agency (1935). Research director at the University of New Mexico. Director of the Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs Indian Education Survey (1963-67). Executive director of the Commission on the Rights, Liberties and Responsibilities of the American Indian (1959). Elected to New York Academy of Science.

Edris Rice-Wray Carson, M.D. (Delta-Cornell) Public health doctor, primarily in Central America and Mexico. Birth control pioneer who headed the first large-scale clinical trials of the birth control pill. Founded Mexico's first family planning clinic, located in Mexico City. Medical director of the Puerto Rico Family Planning Association. Recipient of Planned Parenthood^® Federation of America Margaret Sanger Award (1978).

Brigid Gray Leventhal, M.D. (Βeta Delta-UCLA) One of only six women in Harvard Medical School, 1960. Director of clinical research administration and division of pediatric oncology at Johns Hopkins Oncology Center. Professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Founding member of Pediatric Oncology Group. President of Women in Cancer Research. Federal Women's Award ('74), Outstanding Career Woman, National Council of Women ('79), Professional Achievement Award, UCLA Alumni Association ('82). Co-authored Research Methods in Clinical Oncology.

Ann Bigby McFarren (Βeta Βeta-Michigan State) Lobbyist and public advocate for programs in reproductive health. Developed Alpha Phi’s AIDS Peer Education Program. Former executive director, AIDS Action Council, Washington, D.C.

Lawyers and Judges

Marilyn Aboussie (Gamma Omega-Midwestern State) Chief justice, Third Court of Appeals, Texas (since 1998), the state’s first woman justice (1986). First woman district judge in Tom Green County, Texas (1983-86). Outstanding Democratic Woman Officeholder of 1994. Chair of the State Bar of Texas. First recipient of the Outstanding Jurist Award by the Texas chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML).

Jane H. Barrett (Gamma Kappa-CSU/Long Beach) Los Angeles attorney and president of the American Bar Endowment. First woman to serve as chairperson of the American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division (1980-81). First woman in 104 years to be elected to the Association’s board of governors (1982).

Robin Bond (Beta Tau-Indiana) President and founder of Transition Strategies, LLC, an employment law firm. Robin is a contributing legal expert for ADDitude magazine and is workplace legal expert and employment law commentator for Sirius Satellite Radio's "Court TV Morning Radio." 

Martha DeGraff (Omicron-Missouri) Judge for the United States Civilian Board of Contract Appeals since January 6, 2007.

Carol Manhood Huddart (Xi-Toronto) Appointed to the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the highest court in the province (1996). Appointed to County Court (1981) and Supreme Court (1987).

   Veronica "Ronni" Mathein (Βeta Αlpha-Illinois) Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill., the world’s largest unified court system, domestic relations division (since 1996).

   Mary Murguia (Gamma Delta-Kansas) First Latina to be a federal judge in the district of Arizona, serving a lifetime appointment since 2001. Former director of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys at the Department of Justice, appointed by Janet Reno in 1991.

Dorothy Wright Nelson (Βeta Delta-UCLA) Senior judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, appointed in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter (senior judge since 1995). Winner of the American Bar Association’s D’Alemberte/Raven Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dispute Resolution (2000). Former dean of the University of Southern California Law Center. Inspired the creation of the Dorothy Wright Nelson Justice Award at the University of Southern California.

Mildred Davis Ramynke (Psi-South Dakota) Retired judge; served for 27 years. First and only woman to serve as a South Dakota circuit judge.

Louise Grant Smith (Οmicron-Missouri) First woman assistant attorney general of Missouri (1944). Past president of Kappa Beta Pi international law fraternity. Delegate from Missouri to the National Women's Conference in Houston (1977).

Susan Pierson Sonderby (Βeta Αlpha-Illinois) First woman appointed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Illinois. Elevated to chief judge (1998).

Journalists and Writers

   Catherine Anaya (Βeta Pi-USC) Two-time Emmy Award^®-winning news anchor for CBS 5, KPHO in Phoenix, Ariz. Named “Anchor of the Year” in 2003 by the Arizona Associated Press Broadcasters Association. Formerly of KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, also a monthly columnist for Los Angeles Family Magazine. (See Spring and Summer 2001 Quarterlies.)

   Patricia Cafferty Baldwin (Omega-Texas) Editor-in-chief of Private Clubs magazine. Former editor-in-chief of Golf for Women magazine. Five years as a business writer for the Dallas Morning News. Editor and co-owner of the Austin Business Journal (1983-1985).

Barbara Blakemore (Gamma-DePauw) Former fiction editor of Redbook. Former deputy editor of Family Circle. Former executive editor of McCall's. Past president of Women's Media Group. Recipient of Frances E. Willard Award (1982). Past president of QUEST, a Community for Lifelong Learning in Manhattan (2000-01).

   Jodi Brooks (Ιota-Wisconsin) National Emmy Award^®-winning reporter for CBS 4 in Denver, Colo. Founder of A Safe Place for Newborns, a national program that assures the safety of unwanted babies. Inspiration behind the “Jodi Brooks Law,” passed in nearly every state, which states that hospitals must accept unwanted babies, no questions asked. (See Spring 2001 Quarterly.)

Christy Bulkeley (Οmicron-Missouri) Daily newspaper reporter, editor and publisher for Gannett Co., Inc. for two decades. Program and grants administrator for the Gannett Foundation (now the Freedom Forum) for seven years. One of the first women publishers for Gannett Co. As a newspaper executive, she was the first woman Gannett named chief executive of a daily newspaper (1974). National president of Women in Communications, Inc. (1975-76).

   Elizabeth "Liz" Sutherland Carpenter (Omega-Texas) Writer, feminist, reporter and public relations expert. Press secretary and staff director to Lady Bird Johnson (1963-69). Author of Start with a Laugh, Ruffles & Flourishes, Getting Better All the Time and Unplanned Parenthood: Confessions of a Seventy Something Surrogate Mother. A founder of the National Women's Political Caucus and of ERAmerica. Recipient of Frances E. Willard Award (1980).

   Lisa Colagrossi (Βeta Ιota-West Virginia) Awarded two Emmys^® and nominated for five others as television anchor with WABC-TV in New York.

Alexa Conomos (Zeta Gamma-Santa Clara) News anchor for ABC’s WFAA-TV in Dallas.

   Michelle Fulcher (Βeta Gamma-Colorado) Producer of “Colorado Matters” on Colorado Public Radio. Former assigning editor, city editor and national editor of The Denver Post. Part of the Post news team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for their coverage of the Columbine High School massacre of 1999 (see Fall 2000 Quarterly). Faculty advisor and instructor at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Beth Gannon (Eta Eta-Seton Hall) Author of Crazy Fortunes.

   Jennifer Gilbert (Βeta-Northwestern) Two-time Emmy Award^®-winning television news anchor for FOX 45 in Baltimore, Md. Named “Best News Anchor” in 2002 by Baltimore Magazine.

Kristin Hoke (Theta-Michigan) News anchor for WPBF News in Palm Beach, Fla. Breast cancer survivor who allowed cameras to film the duration of her cancer experience and air the story as an inspiration to viewers.

   Kim Kelleher (Iota-Wisconsin) Vice president and publisher of SELF magazine (since 2004). Former vice president, publisher of Golf for Women, under which she became one of the youngest publishers ever in the Condé Nast family. Advertising Age’s “Media Mavens” in 2003, “Industry Influencer” by Folio in 2005 and one of Advertising Age’s “40 Under Forty” in 2007. (See Fall 2007 Quarterly.

Katie Longworth (Beta Epsilon-Arizona) Sportscaster, CBS 2 in Southern California. Former media relations director for Major League Baseball Arizona Fall League.

Donna Lipper Lucas (Βeta Pi-USC) Chief executive officer/president of NCG Porter Novelli. Widely recognized expert in media relations and political/public affairs strategy. Press secretary to former Gov. George Deukmejian (California) and California press secretary for President George Bush’s successful 1988 campaign. California media director for the 1992, 1996 Republican National Conventions.

   Ann Martin (Sigma-Washington) Prime time news anchor and co-host of Woman 2 Woman, KCBS-TV, Los Angeles. Winner of three Emmy Awards^®, two Golden Mike Awards and an award for best 30-minute newscast. Early in her career, first female to anchor the weekend news solo in Seattle, Wash. (See Spring 2001 Quarterly). 

   Ruth Stafford Peale (Αlpha-Syracuse) Religious leader, public speaker and author. Co-founder, publisher and chairman of the board of Guideposts, Inc. Author of Secrets of Staying in Love and The Adventure of Being a Wife. First woman president of the National Board of North American Missions. First woman chairman of the planning and program committee of the National Council of Churches (1966). National president of the Women’s Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church in America. Vice president of the Council of Churches of the City of New York.

Nan Robertson (Βeta-Northwestern) Pulitzer Prize-winning (1983) reporter and feature writer for the New York Times (1955-96). Winner of Page One award from the Newspaper Guild of New York (1983). Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation (1993). Author of Getting Better, Inside Alcoholics Anonymous (1988) and The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times (1992).

Ellen Soeteber (Beta-Northwestern) Editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 2001-05. Worked for the Chicago Tribune as a reporter, copy editor, weekend editor, night city editor and TV/media editor. In 1986, she was appointed as metropolitan editor, then as assistant managing editor (1988) and associate managing editor (1989). From 1994-2001, she was the managing editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Grace Trahan (Delta Delta-Oklahoma City) Morning and noon anchor for RTV6 in Indianapolis. Grace has received numerous awards, including the Texas School Bell Award for Outstanding Educational Stories.

Barbara Brooks Wallace (Βeta Delta-UCLA) Award-winning author of children's books, including NLAPW Children's Book Award and International Youth Library "Best of the Best" for Claudia (2001) and William Allen White Children's Book Award for Peppermints in the Parlor (1983). Other books include Secret in St. Something, Ghosts in the Gallery, Sparrows in the Scullery and The Twin in the Tavern.

Janice Woods Windle (Omega-Texas) President of the El Paso Community Foundation. Author of Hill Country, The True Women Cookbook, and best-seller True Women, which was published in eight different languages and became the basis for a CBS miniseries starring Angelina Jolie. Received the American Association of University Women's “Woman of the Year.”

State and National Leaders

   Dr. Quincalee Brown (Gamma Xi-Wichita State) Executive director of the Water Environment Federation and the Water Environment Research Foundation (since 1986). Former chair of the American Society of Association Executives (ASEA) (1992-93). Former executive director of the American Association of University Women (1980-86). Recipient of ASEA’s highest award, the Key Award (1995). Named “Association Executive of the Year” by Association Trends Newsletter (1999). Recipient of Alpha Phi Frances E. Willard Award, 1994.

Martha Foote Crow (Alpha-Syracuse) A Founder of Alpha Phi International Fraternity and the American Association of Collegiate Women, national president of both organizations. Professor at the University of Chicago and the fourth Alpha Phi to become Dean of Women at Northwestern University.

Julie Jacobs Daniels  (Phi-Oklahoma) Mayor of Bartlesville, Okla. Former city council member since 2001. Chair of the Local Development Act Review Committee and representative on the Bartlesville Development Corporation, Mayor’s Committee on Concerns for the Disabled, Sanitary Sewer Improvement Oversight Committee and Water Resources Committee.

Susan Hasslocher (Omega-Texas) First woman president of Texas Restaurant Association (1986-88). Vice president for corporate planning and development of Frontier Enterprises, a group of Texas restaurants.

Kelsey Knight (Beta Epsilon-Arizona) Executive assistant to Karl Zinsmeister, the assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Director of the Domestic Policy Council (DPC), since 2007.

Margaret Craig McNamara (Lambda-UC/Berkeley) Founded Reading is Fundamental® in 1966.

Cindy Simon Rosenthal (Beta-Northwestern) Mayor of Norman, Okla. (since 2007). Associate director of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma, where she is an associate professor of political science and women’s studies. Director of National Education for Women’s Leadership, a program that encourages undergraduate women to get involved in public service and politics. Author of When Women Lead. Recipient of “Outstanding Oklahoma Political Scientist of the Year” in 2000 by the Oklahoma Political Science Association.

Jane Wells Schooley (Gamma Rho-Penn State) Public speaker, author of newspaper column and civil and women's rights advocate. Executive director, Pennsylvania Political Party. Former national vice president for National Organization for Women (NOW). Past national chair of the NOW ERA Committee. Co-founder Crime Victims Council. Athena Award winner and Allentown Lehigh County Chamber of Commerce Business Woman of the Year.

Theater and Performing Arts

Jane Huckle Campbell (Βeta Rho-Washington State) Producing director of the Honolulu Theater for Youth, Hawai’i’s only professional nonprofit theatre.

Katie Dean (Theta Nu-Appalachian State) Former manager of international development for the Country Music Association. Current Director of Sales for Mediabase, a division of Clear Channel Entertainment.

Rosemarie Dewitt (Theta Mu-Hofstra) Television and film actress. Made her television debut on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and went on the guest star in the TV shows Queens Supreme, Sex and the City, and Rescue Me. She also stars in the Fox television series Standoff and the movie Cinderella Man, which was written about her grandfather.

Ellen Dryden (Omicron-Missouri) Radio playwright and actress. Wrote, The Person Responsible (1974), and Visitors (1974). Acted in Emma, a 1972 TV mini-series and in The L-shaped Room (1962).

Cynthia Edwards (Εpsilon Βeta-Butler) Stage director for the New York City Opera.

Brooke Engen (Theta Mu-Hofstra) Actress. Played Doreen in the 2007 movie “Hairspray.”

Tiffany Engen (Theta Mu-Hofstra) Actress. Played Noreen in the 2007 movie “Hairspray.”

Martie Ramm Engle (Βeta Delta-UCLA) Broadway producer, choreographer, singer, dancer, director. Part of Walt Disney Theatrical Productions, supervising worldwide productions of Beauty and the Beast. Member of the Broadway touring companies of A Chorus Line, Sweet Charity, Evita and Annie. Served as Director of Special Events for the Pacific Symphony and the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach.

Holly Evans (Εpsilon Beta-Butler) Dancer, actress. Radio City Rockette. Founding member of Harrisburg Ballet. Leads the kickline at the Harrisburg capitol for National Dance Week.

Kimberly Fletcher (Epsilon Rho-UC/Davis) Regional Vice President and General Manager of KDAY (93.5 FM) in Los Angeles.

Marcia Baldwin Gray (Βeta-Northwestern) Professor Emeritus of voice at Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y. Spent twelve seasons with the Metropolitan Opera.

lnga Swenson Harris (Βeta-Northwestern) Broadway and television actress. Stage credits: The First Gentleman (1959), Advise and Consent (1962), Miracle Worker (1962), earned Tony nominations as Best Actress in a Musical for 110 In The Shade (1964) and Baker Street (1965). Played Gretchen Kraus on ABC^®’s Benson (1979-1986).

Margaret Pease Harper (Βeta Εpsilon-Arizona) Founder, public relations director of outdoor musical drama Texas (1961-85). Founding member, first president of the Lone Star Ballet. Vice President of the Texas Tourist Council. Inducted into the Texas Hall of Fame for Women, National Cowboy Hall of Fame and National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. Received Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of University Women, Texas Division. Author of Meet Some Musical Terms: A First Dictionary (1959).

Jeannette Butts Paulson Hereniko (Τau-Oregon) Director of the Asia-Pacific Media Center, Los Angeles (since 1996). Established the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC/USA) (1994). Founding director, Palms Springs International Film Festival (1990). Founder of the Hawaii International Film Festival (1980), serving as its director until 1996. Executive producer of feature-length film “Fire in the Womb” (2005). President of iFilm Connections: Asia & Pacific.

Laura Leigh Hughes (Βeta Delta-UCLA) Actress. Founder and executive of The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company, helping at-risk teens create original theatre drawn from their lives. The company received the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 2000 National Juvenile Justice Award for its work. Laura received the Agape Season of Non-Violence Hero of the Week Award (2000).

Pamela Klinger (Εpsilon Ιota-Duquesne) Singer, dancer, cast member in Broadway production and movie A Chorus Line.

   Erin Lacey (Epsilon deuteron-Boston) Director of Development at First Light Films, a feature film company that worked with films such as Fargo and Notting Hill.

Natalie Loftin (Delta Delta-Oklahoma City) Singer, actress. Won Clear Channel Radio and Sony's "Radio Star" Competition in 2004.

Maile Misajon (Βeta Delta-UCLA) Singer, actress. In female pop group Eden’s Crush and on the television series Popstars. Has appeared in several commercials. Albums include Popstars, featuring the group’s hit single "Get Over Yourself" (see Fall 2001 Quarterly).

   Virginia Patton Moss (Βeta Pi-USC) Actress. Played Ruth Bailey in the 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life. Other films include Canyon Passage (1946) A Double Life (1947) The Burning Cross (1947) Black Eagle (1948) The Lucky Stiff 1949). Received Honorary Alumna Award from Ohio University.

   Kat Parsons (Βeta-Northwestern) Chicago-based singer, songwriter. Made her recording debut with Framing Caroline (1999), released her album No Will Power in March 2005.

Elizabeth Nelson Reiter (Delta Delta-Oklahoma City) Director of dance at St. Gregory's University in Shawnee, Okla. Professional performance career includes being a principal dancer and rehearsal director for Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago; principal dancer with alexander michaels/FUTURE MOVEMENT and numerous industrials in Chicago.

Anna Siebert (Εpsilon-Minnesota) movie stunt double, Sugar & Spice (2001).

Hazel Raymundo Siegel (Βeta-Northwestern) Singer, actress, journalist. Played Kim in Chicago and Boston production of Miss Saigon. Performed first staged reading of Disney's Aida.

   Randi Mayem Singer (Lambda-UC/Berkeley) Writer and producer. Wrote screenplay for Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and Chasing Liberty (2004). Television credits: writer and producer of Hudson Street (1995) and creator and executive producer of Jack & Jill (1999-2000).

   Jeri Ryan (Βeta-Northwestern) Actress. Television: played the role of Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager, Ronnie Cooke on Fox’s Boston Public (since 2001), Melrose Place, Who’s the Boss?, The Flash, Time Trax, Matlock and Dark Skies. Starred in several films including Men Cry Bullets, The Last Man, Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000, a cameo in Disney's The Kid, and Down with Love. Miss Illinois in 1989.

Mildred Dunnock Urmy (Ζeta-Goucher) Broadway actress. Received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her role in Death of a Salesman (1951) and in Tennesse Williams’ Baby Doll (1956). Originated the role of Big Mama in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1956).

Julie Vieillemaringe (Ζeta Gamma-Santa Clara) Production assistant for Walt Disney Feature Animation in Los Angeles. Screen credit on Disney’s Tarzan.

Jane Weaver (Delta Epsilon-Iowa) General manager and chief executive officer of Texas Opera Theater, Houston, Texas.

Kimberly Williams-Paisley (Βeta-Northwestern) Actress, writer, director. Movies: Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride: Part 2, Indian Summer, How to Eat Fried Worms, Eden Court. Stage credits: Vagina Monologues, The Last Night at Ballyhoo, All in the Timing, Speed the Plow. Television credits: Jake's Women, Relativity, The 10^th Kingdom, Lucky Seven, Identity Theft, The Christmas Shoes, Follow the Stars Home, and Hallmark commercials. Currently appears on ABC^®’s According to Jim (Fall 2001 Quarterly). Wrote and directed two short films: Shade and Numero Dos.

Sports and Fitness

Amanda M. Allen (Εpsilon Αlpha-Ashland) Certified athletic trainer.

Christine Bannister (Gamma Pi-Arizona State) Account executive for Brener Zwikel & Associates sports public relations and marketing firm.

Susie Maxwell Berning