Alpha Delta Pi is an international collegiate sorority. Following is a list of notable Alpha Delta Pi members.
Academia Irene Dillard Elliot (Nu) – first Dean of Women at the University of South Carolina; first woman to receive Ph.D. from USC Harriet Elliott (Phi) – Dean of Women at the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Virginia Trotter (Alpha Eta) – former University of Georgia president
Entertainment Kathy Bates (Alpha Zeta) – actress known for Titanic, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Waterboy, and Failure to Launch Alexis Bellino (Alpha Gamma) – cast member of The Real Housewives of Orange County Bree Boyce (Zeta Phi) – Miss South Carolina 2011 Maggie Bridges (Zeta Omicron) – Miss Georgia 2014 Kate Capshaw (Alpha Gamma) – actress Deana Carter (Alpha Kappa) – country singer Carrie Coon (Gamma Theta) – actress Julia Crane (Gamma Tau) – Miss Vermont 2018 Jenna Day (Beta Psi) – Miss Kentucky 2013 Cathy Deupree (Eta) – singer Ainsley Earhardt (Iota and Beta Epsilon) – journalist and co-host of FOX & Friends Monique Evans (Delta) – Miss Texas 2014 Karen Fairchild (Kappa) – country singer; member of Little Big Town Nancy Grace (Delta Theta) – CNN News host Rachael Kirkconnell (Zeta Iota) – television personalityContestant’s controversial past comes to light Anna Kooiman (Eta Alpha) – reporter and co-host on FOX & Friends weekend Neva Jane Langley (Gamma Gamma) – Miss America, 1953 Danica McKellar (Alpha Chi) – actress Lu Parker (Zeta Sigma) – Miss USA 1994; KTLA news correspondent Emily Procter (Delta Omicron) – actress Ali Rogers (Zeta Nu) – Miss South Carolina 2012–2013, 1st runner-up Miss America 2013 Jean Smart (Alpha Theta) – actress Elle Smith (Beta Psi) – Miss Kentucky USA 2021, Miss USA 2021Congratulations, Elle Smith, Alpha Delta Pi, Miss USA 2021! Mary Kate Wiles (Alpha Psi) – actress Kylie Williams (Iota) – Miss Florida 2007; contestant on Miss America: Reality Check Judy Woodruff (Omicron) – managing editor and anchor of PBS NewsHour
Law Robin Davis (Gamma Kappa) – most senior justice on the Supreme Court of West Virginia Maud McLure Kelly (Eta) – lawyer, suffragist, activist; first woman lawyer in Alabama Leslie Rutledge (Delta Delta) – Arkansas Attorney General
Literature Lauren Grandcolas (Delta) – author, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 Jessica Nelson North (Theta) – poet and author, editor of Poetry Carol Shields (Phi) – author; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1995
Politics Martha B. Alexander (Iota) – North Carolina General Assembly Kimberly Berfield (Zeta Omega) – Florida House of Representatives Robin Carnahan (Gamma Nu) – Missouri Secretary of State Louise Holland Coe (Alpha Nu) – first woman elected to the New Mexico Senate Karen Hughes (Alpha Zeta) –Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Jane Stinchfield Knapp (Alpha Delta) – Maine House of Representatives Jane Yelvington McCallum (Delta) –Secretary of State of Texas 1926, suffrage activist Viola Ross Napier (Adelphean) – first woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly Francine Irving Neff (Alpha Nu) – Treasurer of the United States Carol Rasco (Delta Delta) – Director of the Domestic Policy Council under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1996 Jean B. Silver (Alpha Theta) – former member of Washington House of Representatives from 1983 to 1997
Religion Alice Culler Cobb (Alpha) – Christian missionary and member of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Science and medicine Sara Branham Matthews (Alpha) – senior bacteriologist for the United States Public Health Service Jessie Gray (Beta Zeta) – Canada's "First Lady of Surgery" Katherine Van Winkle Palmer (Alpha Theta) – former director of Paleontological Research Institution, first woman to receive a Ph.D. in Paleontology Diane Grob Schmidt (Beta Beta) – chemist, former president of American Chemical Society
Sports Kelli Finglass (Gamma Chi) – director of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Natalie McGiffert (Theta Mu) – 2016 Summer Olympics for Rhythmic Gymnastic Sandra Palmer (Gamma Upsilon) – professional golfer Summer Rae (Delta Omicron) – former professional wrestler
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