This is a list of notable members of Kappa Alpha Theta, a North American college women's fraternity. This list includes both initiated and honorary members.
Gertrude Simmons Burlingham (Chi, Syracuse) – mycologist, first woman to earn a Ph.D. from Columbia University through the program at the New York Botanical Garden in 1908[1]
Julie Moran (Gamma Delta, UGA) – former host of Entertainment Tonight; first female host of ABC's Wide World of Sports; current host of Insiders List on the Fine Living channel[1]
Carol Morris (Beta Kappa, Drake University) – Miss USA (1956), Miss Universe (1956)
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[1]
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[1]
Barbara Bodine (Gamma Rho, UC Santa Barbara) – United States Ambassador to Yemen[1]
Barbara Pierce Bush (Epsilon Tau, Yale University) – daughter of President George W. Bush; co-founder and president of the Global Health Corp.[7]
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[1]
Tillie K. Fowler (Delta Zeta, Emory) – United States Representative from Florida[1]
Barbara Hackman Franklin (Beta Phi, Penn State) – 29th U.S. Secretary of Commerce; CEO of Barbara Franklin Enterprises[1]
Claire McCaskill (Alpha Mu, Missouri) – U.S. Congress Senator from Missouri[1]
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, and Regional Manager of Community Development for North and South Carolina for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Carolina Bermudez (Delta Epsilon, Arizona State) – radio personality on WHTZ Z100 (New York), the biggest Top 40 station in the world[1]
Ally Blake (Theta Theta, North Carolina State University) – broadcast meteorologist at WMAR-2 News in Baltimore, MD; former meteorologist at WKYT-TV in Lexington, KY[1]
