Margaret Chase Smith, Alpha -was the first U.S. woman senator -first woman to sit in both houses of Congress. -She was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award presented by President George Bush in July 1989
Rhea Seddon, Lambda -serves as a mission specialist for NASA. -Her first flight into space was aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1985. -She took her Sigma Kappa badge on her flight into space.
Sarah Weddington, Zeta Nu -was the first woman elected from Austin to be a member of the Texas House of Representatives. -Sarah later became President Jimmy Carter assistant. -Her first book, A Question of Choice, detailed the Roe v. Wade case which she argued before the U.S. Supreme Court and won in 1973.
Anna Harper, Lambda -was inducted into the California Women Athletes Hall of Fame. -She was a Wimbledon tennis champion in 1931 and has won other numerous state and national tennis championships.
Susan Johne, Alpha Chi -Kentucky State senator, 1994
Judith Guest la Vercombe, Alpha Mu -is the author of Ordinary People -the first unsolicited manuscript to be accepted by Viking Press since 1949, and has since become a motion picture.
Betty Jo Peacock Hay, Sigma -was president of the National Mental Health Association in 1986. -She has received many awards for her contributions to higher education and children's mental health.
Margaret Andrew, Chi -was a distinguished pioneering experimental engineer -the first woman to graduate from The Ohio State University. -As an inventor, Margaret secured two patents and was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame.
Fay Burnett, Sigma -was the first nutritionist for Weight Watchers International. -She wrote their first maintenance plan.
Linda
Cross Dowdy, Epsilon Epsilon -is managing editor for The Lyons
Group,
-the creator and
owner of Barney, the popular purple dinosaur featured on PBS.
Theresa
Grentz, Theta -has been the women's head basketball coach at the University of Illinois since
1995.
Theresa led her
team to 50 wins in 76 games in her first year. -In 1997 they won the
first-ever Big Ten title
and appearances in the Sweet Sixteen in both 1997 and
1998.
Maitland
Ward, Gamma Theta -rising star of Boy Meets World -formerly of CBS's The
Bold and Beautiful,
was an active sister at California State University, Long
Beach.
Lauren Roman, Theta Zeta -was on "All My Children," from 1995 -1998. -In 1999, she joined the cast of The Bold and Beautiful