Panhellenic Women in:

 

Education

• Marinell Ash, BBC Educational Producer
• Jahnae Harper Barnett, First Woman President of William Woods University
• Barbara Aronstein Black, Former Dean, Columbia Law School
• Jean M. Buckley, President/CEO, Phi Beta Lambda, Future Business Leaders of America
• Dr. Joy Garrison Cauffman, Professor Emerita, University of Southern California
• Ruth Colvin, Founder and President, Literacy Volunteers of America
• Ada Louise Comstock, President, Radcliffe College
• Peggy Gordon Elliott, President, South Dakota State University
• Dr. Deborah Floyd, President Emerita, Prestonsburg Community College, Kentucky
• Patricia Albjerg Graham, Dean of Graduate Education, Harvard University
• Dr. Marsha Guenzler-Stevens, Director of Activities & Associate Director of the Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland, College Park
• Anna Rose Hawes, Dean, Mills College, AAUW National President
• Karen Holbrook, Former President, The Ohio State University
• Betty Jacka, President, National Merit, Scholarship Corporation
• Dr. May Lansfield Keller, Founding Dean of Westhampton College at the University of Richmond
• Maria Leonard, Founder, Alpha Lambda Delta, National Scholastic Honorary Society
• Franees Lucas-Taucher, President, Millsaps College
• Kathryn Sisson Phillips, Organized the National Association of Deans of Women and was its first president
• Dr. Shirley Raines, President, The University of Memphis
• Patsy Bostick Reed, Chancellor, University of North Carolina at Ashville
• Clyda Stokes Rent, President, Mississippi University for Women
• Dr. Judith Rodin, President, University of Pennsylvania 
• Kayla Mays Stroup, Missouri State Commissioner of Higher Education
• Nancy L. Zimpher, President, University of Cincinnati
  
  
  

Arts and Communication

• Barbara Barrie, Actress, Author
• Rita Braver, CBS News National Correspondent
• Beth Brickell, Actress
• Dr. Joyce Brothers, Psychologist and Advice Columnist
• Pearl Buck, Author
• Andrea Canning, ABC News National Correspondent in Washington D.C.
• Kate Capshaw, Actress
• Dixie Carter, Actress
• Kristin Chenoweth, Actress
• Shirley Christian, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Lisa Colagrossi, Emmy Award-winning news anchor
• Rita Coolidge, Grammy-winning Singer
• Joan Ganz Cooney, Businesswoman and Television Producer; Creator of Sesame Street
• Katie Couric, News Anchor
• Sheryl Crow, Singer
• Margaret Truman Daniel, Writer; Daughter of President Harry Truman
• Faith Daniels, News Anchor, Media Personality
• Agnes DeMille, Dancer, Choreographer
• Joyce Dewitt, Actress
• Faye Dunaway, Academy Award-winning Actress
• Nanette Fabray, Actress
• Donna Fargo, Singer
• Barbara Feldon, Actress; Game show panelist of the 1960s and model
• Ruth Ford, Actress
• Nancy Foreman, Actress
• Jennifer Garner, Actress
• Phyllis George, News Anchor
• Leeza Gibbons, Talk Show Host
• Nancy Grace, CNN News Anchor
• Sue Grafton, Author
• Amy Grant, Singer
• Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist; Created comic strip Cathy
• Edith Head, Academy Award-winning Costume Designer
• Patricia Heaton, Actress
• Eileen Heckart, Academy Award and Tony Award-Winning Actress of Stage, Screen and Television
• Florence Henderson, Actress
• Jane Henson, Co-creator of The Muppets Show
• Marilyn Horne, Opera Singer
• Kate Jackson, Actress
• Ashley Judd, Actress
• Nancy Kulp, Actress
• Christine Lahti, Actress
• Sherry Lansing, Former CEO, Paramount Pictures; First woman to head a major studio
• Carol Lawrence, Actress
• Cloris Leachman, Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Actress
• Nell Harper Lee, Author
• Lucy Liu, Actress
• Heather Locklear, Actress
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress
• Joan Lunden, Broadcaster, Former "Good Morning America" Host
• Victoria MacKenzie-Childs, New York Yankees Co-owner
• Patricia Pritzkau MacLachlin, Author; Winner of 66th John Newberry Medal
• Ann-Margret, Singer, Dancer
• Rue McClanahan, Actress
• Bette Midler, Actress, Singer
• Donna Mills, Actress
• Mary Ann Mobley, Actress, Former Miss America
• Patricia Neal, Academy Award-winning Actress
• Agnes Nixon, Emmy Award-winning Writer and Producer
• Deborah Norville, Television Broadcaster and Journalist
• Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist
• Jane Pauley, Television Journalist
• Kyra Phillips, CNN News Anchor and Correspondent
• Sylvia F. Porter, Columnist
• Paula Prentiss, Actress
• Dorothy Provine, Singer, Dancer, Actress, Comedian
• Gena Rowlands, Actress
• Atoosa Rubenstein, Editor in Chief, Seventeen magazine
• Charlotte Rue, Author
• Jeri Ryan, Actress
• Eva Marie Saint, Academy Award-winning Actress
• Gail Sheehy, Cultural Observer and Author
• Cybill Shepherd, Actress
• Dinah Shore, Singer, Actress
• Anne Rivers Siddons, Author
• Jean Smart, Actress
• Jennifer Smith, Producer of CNN's "Crossfire"
• Suzy Spafford, Cartoonist
• Marlo Thomas, Actress
• Marcia Wallace, Actress
• Carrie Underwood, Singer
• Sela Ward, Actress
• Carole Warner, Pulitzer Prize Winner
• Dawn Wells, Actress
• Ruth Whitney, Former Editor in Chief, Glamour Magazine
• Judy Woodruff, TV Newscaster
• Joanne Woodward, Actress
• Kimberly Williams, Actress
• Liz Winstead, Creator of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show”
• Helen Levison Worth, Author
  
  
  

Business and the Non-Profit Sectors

• Betty Stanley Beene, President/CEO, United Way of America
• Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, UNICEF
• Bridget Ryan Berman, Retail Group President, Polo Ralph Lauren
• Sara Blakely, Founder, Spanx
• Nancy Goodman Brinker, Founder, Susan G. Komen Foundation
• Lee Ducat, Founder, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation
• Paula Garrison, Founder, National Sleepwear
• Elizabeth Meyer Glazer, Founder, Pediatric AIDS Foundation
• Dr. Ruth Hartgraves, President, American Women's Association
• Betsy Holden, CEO, Kraft Foods
• Betsey Johnson, Fashion Designer
• Susan Kinder, President, American Express, Travelers' Cheques
• June Kummer, Co-owner, Adam's Mark Hotels
• Alice Sheets Marriott, Co-founder, Marriott Corp.
• Jennifer Biddulph Maxwell, Co-creator, the Power Bar
• Patricia Miller, Co-owner/President, Vera Bradley Designs
• Pat Mitchell, President, PBS
• Margaret Moffat Toy, Founder, Meals-on-Wheels
• Elisa Lee Morgan, President/CEO, MOPS International, Inc.
• Anita Morris Pearlman, Founder, B'nai Brith Girls
• Ann Potter Person, Founder, Stretch and Sew
• Donna Stone Pesch, Founder/President, Prevent Child Abuse America
• Mimi Halper Silbert, Founder, Delancey Street Foundation
• Melvynne Sommers, Founder, Save Our Seniors
• Kate Spade, Designer
• Henrietta Szold, Founder, Hadassah
• Rhoda Morrow Tomasco, Founder, Sunshine Kids Foundation
• Patricia Pulliam Upton, President/ Chairman, AROMATIQUE
• Donna Wolfe, President, Jockey Inc.
• Susan Bernstein Zeegan, Founder, Pediatric AIDS Foundation
  
  
  

Science, Medicine, and Aviation

• Dr. Linda Hawes Cleaver, First Woman Governor, American College of Physicians
• Rita Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation
• Dr. Gladys Henry Dick, Co-discoverer, Test for Scarlet Fever and the anti-toxin used in its treatment
• Jan Davis, Astronaut
• Bonnie Dunbar, Astronaut
• Dr. Marion Fay, First Woman President of a Medical College (The Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia)
• Anna Fisher, Astronaut
• Dian Fossey, Pioneer Zoologist
• Dr. Jessie Gray, First Woman elected to the Royal Academy of Surgeons of Canada
• Mary Kathryn Hammock, Neurosurgeon & Founder of National Brain Research Association
• Susan Helms, Astronaut
• Carolyn Huntoon, Astronaut
• Jerrie Mock, First woman to successfully fly solo around the world
• Julia Morgan, Architect, San Simeon
• Dr. Valerie Neal, Curator, Smithsonian Institution, National Air & Space Museum, Department of Space History
• Judith Resnik, Astronaut
• Donna Shirley, Mars Project Manager, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Mary Ellen Weber, Ph.D., Astronaut
  
  

Law, Politics, Government, Military & Public Service

• Eva Bertrand Adams, Director of the first U.S. Mint
• Gracia Backer, Missouri State House of Representatives
• Jane H. Barrett, First Woman on the Board of the American Bar Association
• Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, Governor of Louisiana; First woman governor of Louisiana
• Barbara Levy Boxer, U.S. Senator (D-CA)
• Margaret A. Brewer, Brigadier General, Marine Corps
• Carol Laise Bunker, U.S. Ambassador to Nepal 1966-1973; First woman Director General, Foreign Service
• Jocelyn Burdick, U.S. Senator (D-ND)
• Laura Welch Bush, First Lady, U.S.
• Shelley Moore Capito, U.S. House of Representatives (R-WV)
• Jean Carnahan, U.S. Senator (D-MO)
• Carrie Chapman Catt, Suffragist & Founder of the National League of Women Voters
• Lynn Cheney, Wife of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney
• Martha Layne Collins, Governor of Kentucky; First and only woman governor to date in Kentucky
• Grace Goodhue Coolidge, First Lady, U.S.
• Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator (R-NC); Former President, Red Cross of America
• Marianne Blackburn Drew, Rear Admiral, Navy
• Terri Walter Gabreski, Brigadier General, Air Force
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
• Mary Gladwin, Red Cross nurse who served in three wars from 1898 to 1919, decorated by the United States, Russian, Japanese and Serbian governments
• Shirley Mount Hufstedler, Former U.S. Secretary of Education
• Karen Hughes, Presidential Spokesperson
• Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Senator (R-TX)
• Nancy Landon Kassebaum, U.S. Senator (R-KS)
• Yvonne Kauger, Chief Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court
• Claudia Kennedy, General, Army
• Mary Landrieu, U.S. Senator (D-LA)
• Blanche Lambert Lincoln, U.S. Senator (D-AR)
• Bessie Margolin, U.S. Labor Department Appeals Attorney
• Lynn Martin, Former U.S. Secretary of Labor
• Virginia Dill McCarty, Former U.S. Attorney General; First Woman named to a full term as the Attorney General
• Betty Montgomery, Attorney General of Ohio; First woman Attorney General
• Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Senator (R-AK)
• Offira Navon, First Lady, Israel
• Francine Neff, Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
• Maurine Brown Neuberger, U.S. Senator (D-OR)
• Dr. Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State
• Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Senator (R-ME)
• Ivy Baker Priest Stevens, Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
• Annette Greenfield Strauss, Mayor, Dallas, Texas; First woman mayor of Dallas
• Jane Swift, Governor of Massachusetts
• Alma Bell Wilson, Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court