List of Delta Sigma Theta sisters

Below is the list of Delta Sigma Theta sisters (commonly referred to as "Deltas"). Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated (ΔΣΘ) was founded on January 13, 1913, at Howard University. [http://www.deltasigmatheta.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=26 Delta Sigma Theta History] . Retrieved on December 13, 2007.] Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated was first incorporated in Washington, D.C. on February 9, 1913. [ [http://mblr.dc.gov/corp/lookup/status.asp?id=6349 District of Columbia Organization Information] . dcra.dc.gov. Retrieved on October 9, 2007.] In 1930, the organization's Grand Chapter was nationally incorporated. The nomenclature of graduate chapters consist of the city's and the word "alumnae" annexed to the city's name. [ [http://www.deltasigmatheta.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=48 Frequently Asked Questions] . Retrieved on December 20, 2007.]

"Delta Girl"

"Delta Girl is a poem written by honorary member Mary McLeod Bethune.

Founders

FratMember
name=Osceola Macarthy Adams
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder; noted actress
ref= [http://www.deltasigmatheta.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=27 Founders] . Retrieved on December 13, 2007.]

FratMember
name=Pauline Oberdorfer Minor
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=

FratMember
name=Zephyr Chisom Carter
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=

FratMember
name=Edith Motte Young
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=

FratMember
name=Edna Brown Coleman
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=

FratMember
name=Bertha Pitts Campbell
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=

FratMember
name=Frederica Chase Dodd
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=

FratMember
name=Myra Davis Hemmings
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder; actress in "Go Down Death: The Story of Jesus and the Devil"
ref=

FratMember
name=Ethel Cuff Black
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=

FratMember
name=Winona Cargile Alexander
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=

FratMember
name=Marguerite Young Alexander
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=

FratMember
name=Ethel Carr Watson
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=

FratMember
name=Florence Letcher Toms
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=

FratMember
name=Jimmie Bugg Middleton
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=

FratMember
name=Jessie McGuire Dent
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=

FratMember
name=Madree Penn White
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=FratMember
name=Wertie Blackwell Weaver
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=FratMember
name=Olive C. Jones
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=FratMember
name=Naomi Sewell Richardson
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=FratMember
name=Vashti Turley Murphy
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=FratMember
name=Eliza Pearl Shippen
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=FratMember
name=Mamie Reddy Rose
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder
ref=

Presidents

Arts and entertainment

Actresses

FratMember
name=Kim Coles
chapter="Alpha Lambda"
nota=Actress on "Living Single"
ref=

FratMember
name=Ruby Dee Davis
chapter="Honorary"
nota=American Actress, Poet, Playwright, Screenwriter, Journalist, and Activist. She won a Screen Actor's Guild Award for her acting in "American Gangster" with Denzel Washington.
ref= [Giddings 1988, op. cit., pp. 288-289.]

FratMember
name=Suzzanne Douglass
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Actress on "The Parent Hood"
ref=

FratMember
name=Amber Efé
chapter= Alpha
nota= Broadway actress; Co-star in "Legally Blonde: The Musical"; One of Ebony Magazine's "30 Leaders under 30" for 2008.
ref=cite web |url=http://www.alphachapterdst.com/notables.html |title=Soror Spotlight |publisher=Alpha Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta |accessdate=2008-08-09] [cite web |url=http://www.amberefe.com/home.htm |title=Amber Efé |accessdate=2998-08-09]

FratMember
name=Aunjanue Ellis
chapter=Gamma Psi
nota=Actress in the movies Cover, Undercover Brother, Ray.
ref= cite web |url=http://www.tutorgig.com/ed/Aunjanue_Ellis | title=Aunjanue Ellis | publisher= Tutor Gig Encyclopedia | accessdate=2008-09-19]

FratMember
name=Gloria Foster
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Theater actress and two time Obie Award winner for "In White America", and "A Raisin in the Sun"; Played Sadie Delaney in "Having Our Say"
ref=

FratMember
name=Ellen Holly
chapter= "unknown"
nota=Soap Opera Actress Clara "Carla" Hall on the ABC's "One Life to Live", a role she played from 1968 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1985
ref=cite book | last=Schemering |first=Christopher |title=The Soap Opera Encyclopedia |pages=pp. 158-166 |year=1985 |month=September |edition=1st edition |publisher=Harper Collins |location=New York |isbn=0-345-32459-5]

FratMember|name=T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh
chapter=Beta Alpha|nota=Comedian; Actress who's appeared on "In Living Color" and "That's So Raven"|ref=cite web |url=http://www.thebadst.com/chapterpage/betaalpha.html |title=BADST History |publisher=Beta Alpha chapter of Delta Sigma Theta |accessdate=2008-06-30]

FratMember
name=Novella Nelson
chapter= "unknown"
nota=Current plays Roland's mother on Lifetime's "Army Wives"; Singer and Actress; Created the role of “Aunt Missy” in the original Broadway production of "Purlie". Her films include "Antwone Fisher" and "Birth"
ref=cite web |url=http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=1542 |title=Slavery, Literacy and Freedom |work=Live from the NYPL |publisher=New York Public Library |accessdate=2008-06-19]

FratMember
name=Keshia Knight Pulliam
chapter=Eta Kappa
nota=Rudy Huxtable on "The Cosby Show"
ref=cite journal |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_25_99/ai_75435022|title=Grown Up Grad - Keshia Knight Pulliam |journal=JET |publisher=Johnson |date=2001-06-04 |accessdate=2008-08-09]

FratMember
name=Theresa Merritt
chapter="Honorary"
nota= Actress known as a star of stage, screen and television. She starred on television in the family sitcom "That's My Mama" and in the memorable "The Wiz".
ref=

FratMember
name=Sheryl Lee Ralph
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Deidra "Dee" Mitchell on "Moesha"; Humanitarian educating communities on HIV/AIDS awareness
ref=

FratMember
name=Kellie Shanygne Williams
chapter="unknown"
nota=Laura Winslow on "Family Matters"
ref=

FratMember
name=Cicely Tyson
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Emmy award winning actress; notable for roles in "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" and "Roots"
ref=

FratMember
name=Sharon Warren
chapter=Epsilon Eta
nota=Ray Charles's mother Aretha Robinson in "Ray (film)"
ref=cite web |url=http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=31695&page=4]

FratMember
name=Kym Whitley
chapter=Alpha Beta
nota=Actress on "Married... with Children", and "Moesha"|ref=

Artists and illustrators

FratMember
name=Tina Allen
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Sculptress and Painter; Sculpted bust of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
ref=http://deltasigmatheta.xohost.com/inside.php?id=0305AH4N Delta Sigma Theta - Notable Deltas. Retrieved on December 14, 2007.] FratMember
name=Selma Burke
chapter="Honorary"
nota=American Female artist who designed the profile of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the United States dime; Sculptress of President Franklin D. Roosevelt portrait
ref=FratMember
name=Elizabeth Catlett
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Sculptress and printmaker; "Mother and Child"
ref=FratMember
name=Gwendolyn Bennett
chapter="Rho"
nota= Versatile Artist, Poet & Prose Writer, and Teacher; She played an active role in the African-American arts community in Harlem. Served as director of the Harlem Community Art Center of the N.Y.C. WPA Art Project. Nurtured and fostered the talents of young African-American poets and artists of her time. One of the most revered poets of the New Negro Era (Harlem Renaissance). Her poetry reflected themes of the New Negro Era--racial pride, rediscovery of Africa, celebration of blackness--or of personal statement, the romantic lyric. A frequent contributor to the famous Opportunity Magazine, which chronicled cultural advancements in Harlem. Also contributed to Fire! -- a literary magazine started by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. Most well known for her shorty story, Wedding Day, which was published in Fire!
ref=FratMember
name=Varnette P. Honeywood
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Famous Painter known for her unique portrayals of Black culture in paintings exhibited in home settings of several popular televison shows, including "The Cosby Show".
ref=

Authors

FratMember
name=Darlene Clark Hines
chapter=
nota=Historian; Author of "Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950"
ref=FratMember
name=Harriette Cole
chapter=Alpha
nota=Current Creative Director for Ebony Magazine; Author "How to Be: A Guide to Living with Grace and Integrity"; Image Consultant |ref=FratMember
name=Alice Dunbar-Nelson
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Poet; Wife of Paul Dunbar
ref= [Giddings 1988, op. cit., p. 72.] FratMember
name=Paula Giddings
chapter=Alpha
nota=Author of "When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America" and "In Search of Sisterhood"
ref=cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1173 |title=Paula Giddings |publisher=PEN America Center |accessdate=2007-12-19] FratMember
name=Nikki Giovanni
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Renowned Poet
ref=cite web |url=http://nikki-giovanni.com/awardsnhonors.shtml |title=Awards and Honors |accessdate=2007-12-24 |last=Giovanni |first=Nikki |publisher=Nikki Giovanni] FratMember
name=Yolanda Joe
chapter= Pi Alpha
nota=Author of "Bebe's By Golly Wow!", "He Say, She Say" and "Falling Leaves of Ivy". A former newswriter at the CBS affiliate in Chicago
ref=cite web |url=http://www.vs-voice.com/pdf/Tampa%20Bay%20Times.pdf |title=Delta Authors on Tour |last=Wheatt |first=Dalia |publisher=Tampa Bay Times] FratMember
name=Lyda M. Merrick
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Editor and publisher of the Negro Braille Magazine.
ref=FratMember
name=Ethel L. Payne
chapter="Honorary"
nota="First Lady of the Black Press", First Black woman journalist to cover international affairs; she was a columnist, lecturer, and free-lance writer
ref=cite web |url=http://www2.selu.edu/orgs/DST/famoussororspage.html |title=Famous Delta Members |publisher=Nu Delta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta |accessdate=2008-06-13] FratMember
name=Stephanie Perry Moore
chapter=Kappa Upsilon
nota=Christian fiction novelist; author of the "Payton Skyy" series.
ref= [cite web |url=http://www.auburn.edu/student_info/greeks/delta_sigma_theta/history_lineage.html |title=Our Lineage |publisher=Kappa Upsilon chapter of Delta Sigma Theta |accessdate=2008-09-17] [cite web |url=http://www.stephanieperrymoore.com/page1.html | title=Vanessa Davis Griggs presents: A Chat with a Very Special Guest...Stephanie Perry Moore |publisher=Vanessa Davis Griggs |acccessdate =2008-09-17] FratMember
name=Gwendolyn Pough
chapter=Theta Upsilon
nota= Author of “Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture and the Public Sphere,”; Associate Professor - Writing Program & Department of Women’s Studies, Syracuse University
ref=cite web |url=http://www.easternregiondst.org/downloads/HERStoriesFall07Part1.pdf |title=Soror Gwendolyn D. Pough, Ph.D. releases new novel |publisher=Eastern Region - Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.] FratMember
name=Jessie Redmon Fauset
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Novelist during the Harlem Renaissance
ref= [Giddings 1988, "op. cit.", pp. 84.]

Dancers

FratMember
name=Mfon Akpan
chapter=Pi Delta
nota= Currently a member of the Step Afrika dance troupe. She began her training at the Bernice Johnson Cultural Arts Center and had graced the stages of Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Apollo Theater, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Lincoln Center. Mfon has recently toured with the off-broadway show "Hoofin' 2 Hittin" where she was a featured stepper and dancer.
ref=FratMember
name=Judith Jamison
chapter="Honorary"
nota= American dancer and choreographer, best known as the Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Jamison's numerous awards include Kennedy Center Honors (1999) and the National Medal of Arts (2001). She won a prime time Emmy Award and an American Choreography Award for Outstanding Choreography for the PBS "Great Performances: Dance In America" special, "A Hymn for Alvin Ailey." She wrote an autobiography, "Dancing Spirit", published in 1993.
ref=FratMember
name=Aseelah Shareef
chapter=Kappa Epsilon
nota= Currently a member of the Step Afrika dance troupe. She began her dance training at the Palm Beach County School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, FL. As a teenager, she studied in the prestigious Alvin Ailey Summer Dance Program; has trained at the Urban Bush Women Summer Institutes in Brooklyn, New York; and performed with Cleveland Contemporary Dance Theatre.
ref= [http://www.stepafrika.org/091207/company.htm About Step Africa] . Retrieved on March 24, 2008.]

Miss America winners

FratMember
name=Kimberly Clarice Aiken-Cockerham
chapter=Epsilon Tau
nota=Miss America in 1994
ref=FratMember
name=Ericka Dunlap
chapter=Mu Iota
nota=Miss America in 2004
ref= [cite web| url=http://www.missamerica.org/our-miss-americas/2000/2004.aspx |title= Miss America 2004 - Ericka Dunlap |publisher = Miss America Organization | accessdate= 2007-12-14] FratMember
name=Pamela Michele McKelvy
chapter=Delta Iota
nota=Miss Kansas in 1992 and 3rd Runner-Up to Miss America
ref= [cite web| url=http://www.blogger.com/profile/05792319817431210391 |title= Pam McKelvy |publisher = Blogger | accessdate= 2008-06-14] FratMember
name=Allison Bourne-Vanneck
chapter=Mu Upsilon
nota=Miss Virginia Islands in 2005
ref= [cite web| url=http://www.wm.edu/so/deltasigmatheta/lineage.php |title= Mu Upsilon Lineage 1995 - 2007 | accessdate= 2008-06-14] FratMember
name=Staci Shands
chapter=Brooklyn Alumnae Chapter
nota=Ms. New York in 2006 - Ms. America International; the first Ms. Liberty America International 2007
ref= [cite web| url=http://newsblaze.com/story/20060707222312nnnn.nb/topstory.html |title= Staci Shands Crowned Ms. New York 2006 |publisher = News Blaze News | accessdate=2008-06-14] [cite web| url=http://www.pr.com/press-release/37035 |title = Staci Shands Wins Ms. Liberty America International 2007 | publisher= Icats Publicity | accessdate=2008-06-14] FratMember
name=Patricia Southall Lawrence-Smith
chapter= Iota Alpha
nota=Miss Virginia; 1st Runner-Up to Miss America; Philanthropist and entrepreneur; Wife of Emmitt Smith (Retired NFL All-Pro Running Back)|ref=

Miss Deaf America

FratMember
name=Tyese Wright
chapter=University of Maryland
nota=Miss Deaf America from 2002-2004
ref= [cite web| url=http://www.nbda.org/spotlights/spotlight_wright.html |title = In the Spotlight - Tyese Wright, Miss Deaf America 2002-2004 | publisher=National Black Deaf Advocates |accessdate = 2008-03-25]

Mrs. America

FratMember
name=Adrienne Watson Carver
chapter= "unknown"
nota=Mrs. Maryland America 2007, Mrs. Maryland USA 2006; Top Ten Finalist in Mrs. America 2008
ref= [http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/custom/altoday/bal-al.fivethings28oct28,0,6396516.story. Retrieved on June 11, 2008.] [http://adriennecarver.com/mrs2007.htm. Retrieved on July 3, 2008.] FratMember
name=Tanya Hutchison
chapter=Delta Upsilon
nota=Mrs. California International 2005; First Winner of "She's Got the Look" Reality Modeling Show on the TV Land network; Former L.A. Raiders Cheerleader
ref= [http://www.rolemodelproductions.com/phenomenalwomen//index.cfm?page=book-pbeauty-author.htm. Retrieved on June 17, 2008.]

Miss USA winners

FratMember
name=Stacey Nicole Lee
chapter=Sigma
nota=Miss Michigan in 2004
ref=FratMember
name=Kalilah Allen-Harris
chapter=Mu Zeta
nota=Miss Black USA in 2007
ref= [ [http://web.utk.edu/~dst/index1.htm] . Retrieved on June 13, 2008.] FratMember
name=Kimberly Brown
chapter=Delta Delta
nota=Miss Black California USA 2008
ref= [ [http://www.missblackusa.org/contestants/California.htm] . Retrieved on June 5, 2008.] FratMember
name=Tiffany Monique Lloyd
chapter=Alpha Tau
nota=Miss Black Louisiana USA 2008
ref= [ [http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/2007/dec/23/former-miss-asu-wins-again/] . [http://www.southerndivas.com/] . Retrieved on June 5, 2008.] FratMember
name=Shenita McConis
chapter=Alpha Chi
nota=Miss Black Kentucky USA 2008
ref= [ [http://www.velocityweekly.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080604/VELOCITY01/806040433] . Retrieved on June 5, 2008.] FratMember
name=Terysa Singleton
chapter=Alpha Tau
nota=Miss Black Louisiana USA in 2007
ref= [ [http://www.southerndivas.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=46] . Retrieved on July 2, 2008.]

ingers and musicians

FratMember
name=Harolyn Blackwell
chapter="unknown"
nota=Soprano; Opera singer
ref= [http://199.236.89.103/downloads/Convention06a.pdf. Pg. 10, photo #9. Retrieved on June 19, 2007.] FratMember
name=Marcia Butler Holt
chapter="unknown"
nota=Jazz singer
ref= [.] FratMember
name=Shirley Caesar
chapter="Honorary"
nota= Known as the "First Lady of Gospel"; Gospel singer;
ref=FratMember
name=Florence Cole Talbert
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Opera singer; composer of the official "Delta Hymn"
ref= [Giddings 1988, op. cit., p. 86.] [http://www.mainspringpress.com/blkswan.htm BLACK SWAN'S OTHER STARS. Retrieved on December 19, 2007.] FratMember
name=Natalie Cole
chapter= Upsilon
nota=Singer of "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)"
ref=FratMember
name=Roberta Flack
chapter=Alpha
nota=Singer of "Killing Me Softly with His Song"
ref= [Giddings 1988, op. cit., p. 110.] FratMember
name=Aretha Franklin
chapter="Honorary"
nota=R&B Singer of "Respect"
ref=FratMember
name=Lena Horne
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Jazz, pop, and Broadway singer
ref=FratMember
name=Dorothy Maynor
chapter="unknown"
nota=Soprano; Opera Singer
ref= [http://www.dstchicago.com/Delta_History/_Notable_Deltas-1.htm.] FratMember
name=Leontyne Price
chapter="unknown"
nota=Soprano; Opera Singer; Awarded the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson
ref=FratMember
name=Leslie Uggams
chapter="unknown"
nota=Emmy and Tony Award-winning singer in "Hallelujah, Baby!"; "Kizzy" in Alex Haley's "Roots"
ref= [http://www.leslieuggams.com] FratMember
name=Nancy Wilson
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Grammy Award winning blues, jazz, cabaret and pop singer
ref=cite web|url=http://www.sororities.eku.edu/DeltaSigmaTheta/new_delta6.html |title=Famous Members |accessdate=2007-12-24 |publisher=Eta Rho Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta ]

Television and radio

FratMember
name=Mara Brock Akil
chapter=Theta Alpha
nota=Television writer and producer. Creator of the TV Show "Girlfriends" and "The Game".
ref= [http://www.cbspressexpress.com/div.php/paramount_network/original/bio?id=605&bid=761&dpid=70 Mara Brock Akil. CBS PressExpress. CBS Corporation. Retrieved on December 26, 2007.] FratMember
name=Monique Braxton
chapter= "unknown"
nota=Emmy-Nominated News Anchor at NBC-10 in Philadelphia; Former MSNBC anchor and correspondent.
ref= [http://www.nbc10.com/meetthenewsteam/1225419/detail.html. NBC-10 NBC Corporation. Retrieved on June 18, 2008.] FratMember
name=Erica Bryant
chapter= "unknown"
nota=News Anchor at WSOC-TV in Charlotte, NC.
ref= [http://www.wsoctv.com/station/3382075/detail.html. WSOC-TV. Retrieved on February 18, 2008.] FratMember
name=Cheryl Burton
chapter=Chicago Alumnae
nota=Emmy Award Winning News Anchor at WLS-TV in Chicago.
ref= [http://abclocal.go.com/wls/bio?section=resources/inside_station/newsteam&id=5771861 Cheryl Burton. WLS-TV ABC Corporation. Retrieved on February 18, 2008.] FratMember
name=Kysa Daniels
chapter= "unknown"
nota= CNN Headline News overnight anchor.
ref= [http://media.www.dailyhelmsman.com/media/storage/paper875/news/2001/03/02/News/Cnn-News.Anchor.Tells.How.To.Chart.Successful.Broadcast.Career.Course-1751970.shtml. Retrieved on June 18, 2008.] FratMember
name=Sara V. Finney-Johson
chapter= "unknown"
nota=TV Producer, Writer, Former Co-Creator of "Moesha"
ref= [http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/baa/baa/profiles/sara_finney.htm. Retrieved on June 18, 2008.] FratMember
name=Lesli Foster
chapter=Alpha
nota=Emmy-Award Winning Reporter 9 Eyewitness News (CBS).
ref= [http://www.wusa9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=37271. WUSA9-TV CBS News Corporation. Retrieved on February 18, 2008.] [http://www.alphachapterdst.com/lineage_1996.html. Retrieved on February 18, 2008.] FratMember
name=Triscina Grey
chapter= "unknown"
nota= Current Radio Disc Jockey for WHUR's 96.3.
ref= [http://hucapstone.com/november/story4.html. Retrieved on June 19, 2008.] FratMember
name=Danita Harris
chapter= "unknown"
nota=News Anchor at NewsChannel5 at 6pm anchor position in Cleveland; Former 1st Female and African-American host of "Academic Challenge"; Interviewed Oprah Winfrey.
ref= [http://www.newsnet5.com/whoswho/914271/detail.html. NewsChannel5. Retrieved on June 18, 2008.] FratMember
name=JC Haywood
chapter= "unknown"
nota=News Anchor at WUSA9 in Washington DC; Vice President of Media Outreach; the 1st DC market female news anchor.
ref= [http://www.wusa9.com/company/bios/story.aspx?storyid=37268&catid=133. WUSA9 CBS Corporation. Retrieved on June 18, 2008.] FratMember
name=Charlayne Hunter-Gault
chapter= Tau
nota= Africa Bureau Chief for "Essence" Magazine; Journalist on CNN
ref=cite news | first=Marylin | last=Marshall | coauthors= | title=Delta Sigma Theta: sorority, founded at Howard University, stresses service, scholarship and the arts | date=February 1990 | publisher=Johnson Publishing| url =http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n4_v45/ai_8325355 | work =Ebony | pages = | accessdate = 2007-12-24 | language = ] cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/taunotabledeltas |title=Famous Members |accessdate=2008-02-20 |publisher=Tau Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority] FratMember
name=Allison Keyes
chapter= "unknown"
nota=Award Winning Journalist and Reporter at NPR - National Public Radio's National Desk.
ref= [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2100752. NPR. Retrieved on June 18, 2008.] FratMember
name=Jennifer Moss
chapter= "unknown"
nota=Daybreak Anchor at Wood TV-8 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
ref= [http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=976087&nav=menu44_10_5. Wood TV-8 NBC Corporation. Retrieved on June 18, 2008.] FratMember
name=Jacque Reid
chapter=New York Alumnae
nota= Current News Contributor for "The Tom Joyner Morning Show"; Former anchorwoman on "BET Nightly News"; Former co-host of "The Steve Harvey Show" - radio show.
ref= [http://www.essence.com/essence/summit/bio_j_reid.html "Women Shaping the World: Jacque Reid"] . "Essence". Retrieved on December 24, 2007.] FratMember
name=Robi Reed-Humes
chapter=Gamma Iota
nota= Emmy Award Winning Casting Director ("The Tuskegee Airmen" & "Malcolm X") who has been a major contributor to the success of over 30 films, including eight with director Spike Lee ("Malcolm X"). TV credits include Bill Cosby's "A Different World" and LL Cool J's "In the House"
ref= [http://www.southerndivas.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=46 Famous Deltas] . Retrieved on February 22, 2008.] FratMember
name=Shannon Royster
chapter="unknown"
nota=News Anchor at KSLA 12 TV in Louisiana.
ref= [http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=5600612. KSLA12 CBS Corporation. Retrieved on June 18, 2008.] FratMember
name=Tracie Strahan
chapter="unknown"
nota=WNBC News 4 Reporter in New York.
ref= [http://www.wnbc.com/meetthenewsteam/15157227/detail.html. WNBC NBC Corporation. Retrieved on August 7, 2008.] FratMember
name=Mary E. Vroman Harper Gibson
chapter="Honorary"
nota=First black woman accepted into membership in the Screen Writer's Guild; Wrote "Shaped to its Purpose, Delta Sigma Theta, the First Fifty Years"
ref= [Mary E. Vroman, "Shaped to its Purpose, Delta Sigma Theta, the First Fifty Years", New York: Random House (1965).] FratMember
name=Lisa Washington
chapter=Sigma
nota=Morning and Noon Anchor at WHNT TV 19 in Huntsville, Alabama.
ref= [http://www.whnt.com/Global/story.asp?S=1344800&nav=menu108_6_5_2 WHNT TV-19 CBS affiliate. Retrieved on June 18, 2008.] FratMember
name=April Wilson Woodard
chapter=Kappa Rho
nota=Senior Reporter, INSIDE EDITION; Celebrity News Commentator; Former Miss Black USA; Former 2nd Runner-Up - Miss Virginia
ref= [http://www.insideedition.com/bio-april-woodard.aspx]

Civil rights

FratMember
name=Daisy Bates
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Advisor to the Little Rock Nine to integrate Little Rock Central High School; civil rights activist
ref=Giddings 1988, op. cit., p. 262.] FratMember
name=Myrlie Beasley Evers-Williams
chapter="unknown"
nota=Wife of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers; In 1995 she made history as the 1st woman to chair the NAACP; former NAACP chairwoman
ref=FratMember
name=Nannie Burroughs
chapter="Honorary"
nota=One of the founders of National Association of Colored Women; civil rights activist
ref=Giddings 1988, op. cit., p. 62-63.] [http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/women.cgi?state=Virginia Women and Jim Crow: Virginia] . Jim Crow History. Retrieved on December 19, 2007.] FratMember
name=Mary Church Terrell
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Writer, Civil Rights and Women's Rights activist; First president of the National Association of Colored Women; First black woman to represent the U.S. Congress of Women; First black woman to serve on the Washington DC Board of Education
ref=FratMember
name=Coralie Franklin Cook
chapter="Honorary"
nota=One of the founders of National Association of Colored Women; civil rights activist
ref=FratMember|name=Fannie Lou Hamer|chapter="Honorary"|nota=American voting rights activist and civil rights leader|ref=FratMember
name=Vivian Malone Jones
chapter="Unknown"
nota=Civil Rights Activist. First African-American to enroll and graduate from the the Univeristy of Alabama despite Governor George Wallace infamous "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" who was in defiance of orders to admit black students.
ref= FratMember
name=Mary McLeod Bethune
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Eighth President of the National Association of Colored Women; founder of the National Council of Negro Women; founder of the Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls; civil rights activist
ref= [Giddings 1988, op. cit., p. 84.] FratMember
name=Betty Jean Sanders-Shabazz
chapter=North Manhattan Alumnae Chapter
nota=Civil rights activist; Wife of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X; Former director of the Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn's Department of Communications and Public Relations.
ref= [cite web |url=http://www.nmacdst.org/nmac_presidents_page.htm |title=Reflections of Past Presidents |publisher=North Manhattan Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta |accessdate=2008-08-09] FratMember
name=Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
chapter=Gamma
nota=One of the first African Americans to receive a Ph.D. in the United States; First black woman to receive a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and in the United States; First black woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School; First black woman admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar
ref=FratMember
name=Henrietta Bell Wells
chapter="Alpha Iota Chapter ( Wiley College)"
nota=Member of the Historic Wiley Debate team as portrayed in the "Great Debaters"; basis for Jurnee Smollett's character; First African-American teacher at Bonner Elementary School
ref= [cite web |last=Barnwell |first=Carol E. |url=http://www.episcopalcafe.com/daily/movies/a_great_debater_looks_back.php |title=A "Great Debater" looks back |work=Daily Episcopalian |publisher=episcopalcafe.com |accessdate=2008-08-09] cite web |url=http://www.dsthoustonalumnae.org/news/news.shtm |title=HAC News |publisher=Houston Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta |accessdate=2008-08-09]

Education

FratMember
name=Hallie Quinn Brown
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Wilberforce University Board of Trustees member
ref=Giddings 1988, op. cit., pp. 70] FratMember
name=Johnnetta Cole
chapter="unknown"
nota=First African American female president of Spelman College from 1987-1997 and president of Bennett College from 2002-2007
ref=FratMember
name=Meredith Daniels
chapter="unknown"
nota=First African American to graduate with a Doctoral degree in Mathematics from the University of Virginia in May 2008.
ref=cite web| url=http://www.cvilledst.org/ | title=Another Delta First| access date=2008-09-02] FratMember
name=Ramona Edelin
chapter="unknown"
nota=Founder and Former Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Northeastern University; Former President and CEO of the National Urban Coalition; Created the M. Carl Holman Leadership Development Institute & Executive Leadership Program to bring minorities into leadership development opportunities; Former member of Presidential Board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (appointed by Bill Clinton); Former Executive Director of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
ref= [http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=522] [http://www.house.gov/cummings/speech/sp072202.htm] FratMember
name=Mary Futrell
chapter=Alpha Eta
nota=First African American Female and Former President of National Education Association;
ref= [ [http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=899&category=educationMakers] . Retrieved 6/29/08.] FratMember
name=Robyn Hadley
chapter=Kappa Omicron
nota=Third African American Female selected as a Rhodes Scholar.
ref= [ [http://www.casethree.org/conference/index.php?page=speakers&speaker=32] . Retrieved 6/29/08.] FratMember
name=Julia Gee Hunnicut
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Wilberforce University instructor
ref=FratMember
name=Adah Hyde Johnson
chapter=Delta
nota=First African American woman to graduate from the University of Iowa
ref= [ http://www.uiowa.edu/~dst1919/ |accessdate=2008-07-22 ] FratMember
name=Anna Johnson Julian
chapter=Gamma
nota=First African American woman in the nation to receive the Ph.D. degree in sociology; First African American to receive Phi Beta Kappa honors at University of Pennsylvania
ref= [ http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/people/1900s/julian_anna_johnson.html |accessdate=2008-06-29 ] FratMember
name=Joyce Ladner
chapter="unknown"
nota=First woman to serve as President of Howard University; Former Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute
ref= [cite web |url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=445&category=Educationmakers |title=Joyce Ladner Biography |work-Education Makers |publisher=thehistorymakers.com |accessdate=2008-08-04 ] [cite web |last=Ladner |first=Joyce |date=2008-05-03 |url=http://theladnerreportblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/what-would-fannie-lou-hamer-say_03.html |title=What Would Fannie-Lou Hamer say? |work=The Ladner Report |publisher=onestat.com |accessdate=2008-08-04] FratMember
name=Sarah Scarborough
chapter="Honorary"
nota=wife of William Sanders Scarborough, who was president of Wilberforce University
ref=FratMember
name=Niara Sudarkasa
chapter="Honorary"
nota=First female president of Lincoln University
ref=FratMember
name=Josephine Washington
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Writer, Educator, Advocate of Women's Rights and Racial Justice; Wilberforce University Dean of Women; A copyist for Frederick Douglass during his tenure as Recorder of Deeds for DC
ref=

Heads of organizations and business executives

FratMember
name=Juanita Baranco
chapter="unknown"
nota=Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Baranco Automotive Group (one of 1st AA owned car dealerships in Atlanta area); Former Assistant Attorney General of Georgia; 1st African American women to chair Georgia Board of Regents.
ref= [http://www.atlantawomanmag.com/Articles/2008/Web_May/Juanita_Baranco.html] FratMember
name=Susan Bass
chapter="unknown"
nota=President of Susan Bass Group; Former VP of Communications & Community Relations for the Atlanta Falcons
ref= [ [http://www.whoswhopublishing.com/sections/black_minneapolis/black_minneapolis_publisher.shtml] .] FratMember
name=Sheryl Battles
chapter="unknown"
nota=VP of Corporate Communications - Pitney Bowles
ref= [http://www.latinobankingsolutions.com/TIME.html] FratMember
name=Cora Masters Barry
chapter="unknown"
nota=Founder of the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center; Founder and CEO of the Recreation Wish List Committee (RWLC) of Washington, D.C. - an organization dedicated to ensuring every youngster has access to safe and decent recreational facilities; Former 1st Lady of Washington, D.C.
ref= [http://thefuturepac.com/who/board/cmbarry/] FratMember
name=Melanie L. Campbell
chapter="unknown"
nota=Executive Director of the National Coalition of Black Civic Participation; Civic leader; Civil Rights Activist who implemented projects: VOTE Election Reform Task Force, Unity Civic Engagement & Voter Empowerment Campaign, and ReBuild Hope NOW; charter member of the Future PAC.
ref= [http://www.ncbcp.org/whoweare-bios.html] FratMember
name=Monica Cost
chapter=Gamma Iota
nota=Commercial Real Estate Broker at Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. (C&W), a global commercial real estate firm; 1st AA broker in the New England Area of Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. & 1st AA female to hold this position for a major real estate firm in Massachusetts.
ref= [http://www.amightyriver.com/content/monica-cost] FratMember
name=Deborah Elam
chapter="unknown"
nota=Chief Diversity Officer at General Electric (GE) - one of the highest ranking women at GE
ref= [http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1602&category=BusinessMakers&occupation=Corporate%20Executive&name=Deborah%20Elam] FratMember
name=Carla Harris
chapter="unknown"
nota=Managing Director in Global Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley; Member of the Equity Syndicate desk; Gospel Singer
ref= [http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1295&category=BusinessMakers&occupation=Investment%20Banker%20%26%20Gospel%20Singer&name=Carla%20Ann%20Harris] [http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/2102.html] FratMember
name=Amy S. Hilliard
chapter=Alpha
nota=Founder, President and CEO of The ComfortCake Company LLC; Former senior marketing executive with Gillette, Pillsbury and L'Oreal; First African-American elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association of the Specialty Food Trade
ref= [http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1915&category=BusinessMakers&occupation=Business%20Executive%20%26%20Entrepreneur&name=Amy%20S.%20Hilliard] [http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=31695&page=9] FratMember
name=Eunice W. Johnson
chapter="unknown"
nota=Executive of Johnson Publishing Company; Creator of the Ebony Fashion Show
ref=FratMember
name=Edith Irby Jones
chapter=Gamma Mu
nota=First African American student to attend the University of Arkansas School of Medicine; First Female and Former President National Medical Association
ref= [ [http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1862&category=MedicalMakers] .] FratMember
name=Elaine Jones
chapter="unknown"
nota=Former NAACP Legal Defense Fund Director and General Counsel
ref= [cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=LDF Receives $1 Million Gift from Delta Sigma Theta Sorority to Support Voting Rights Programs | date=2005-06-02 | publisher=NAACP | url =http://www.naacpldf.org/content.aspx?article=615 | work =NAACP Legal Defense Fund | pages = | accessdate = 2008-01-06 | language = ] FratMember
name=Madeline Lawson
chapter="unknown"
nota=Executive Vice president of the Institute for the Advancement of Multicultural & Minority Medicine.
ref= [cite news | first= Gwendolyn | last=Crump | title=Eyes on Our Youth |date =Winter 2008 | publisher=Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. |url=http://www.deltasigmatheta.org/downloads/journalWin08/18_winterjournal08_0317_c1to8.pdf. |pages = 9| accessdate=2008-09-19] FratMember
name=Renetta McCann
chapter= Theta Alpha
nota=CEO of The Americas Starcom MediaVest.
ref= [cite news | title=Renetta McCann Biography |date =2005-03-25 | publisher=The History Makers |url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1124&category=businessMakers | accessdate=2008-09-19] FratMember
name=Karen McGill Lawson
chapter="unknown"
nota=Current President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund (LCCREF)
ref= FratMember
name=Lavonia Perryman
chapter="unknown"
nota=V.P. of PR Networks, Inc.; Former Cable Commissioner for D.C.; Former Founding member and Former president - National Black Women's Political Congress; Former president & Founding member - Coalition of 100 Black Women District of Columbia Chapter; Charter member of The Future PAC
ref= [http://www.clarenceshuler.org/tour_fairfax.htm] [http://thefuturepac.com/who/board/lperryman/] FratMember
name=Elsie L. Scott PhD.
chapter="unknown"
nota=Current President and CEO of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
ref=FratMember
name=Jane E. Smith
chapter="unknown"
nota=Former President and CEO of the National Council of Negro Women; Founding member of the Women's Chamber of Commerce
ref= [ [http://www.spelman.edu/about_us/news/pdf/SpelmanMessengerFall2004.pdf] .] FratMember
name=Stacey Davis Stewart
chapter="unknown"
nota=Former President and CEO of the Fannie Mae Foundation (1999-2007); Current Sr. VP of the Fannie Mae Foundation's Office of Community and Charitable Giving
ref= [http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1598&category=BusinessMakers&occupation=Foundation%20and%20Corporate%20Executive&name=Stacey%20Davis%20Stewart.] [http://www.house.gov/cummings/speech/sp072202.htm] FratMember
name=A. Shuanise Washington
chapter= "unknown"
nota= V.P. of Government Affairs Policy & Outreach for Altria Group, Inc.(formerly Philip Morris USA)
ref= [http://thefuturepac.com/who/board/aswashington/] FratMember
name=Shelia Ruth Wheatley Clark
chapter=Zeta Eta
nota=First African-American accountant and AA female partner at firm Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company
ref= [ [http://orgs.unt.edu/dst/history.html Zeta Eta History] . Zeta Eta chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. Retrieved January 5, 2008.] FratMember
name=Dr. E. Faye Williams
chapter="unknown"
nota=Chairperson of the National Congress of Black Women
ref= [ [http://www.nationalcongressbw.org/index.asp?PageAction=Custom&ID=2] .]

Health and science

FratMember
name=Alexa Canady
chapter= Nu
nota=First African-American female Neurosurgeon
ref=FratMember
name=May Edwards Chinn
chapter= "unknown"
nota=First AA female to graduate from Bellevue Hospital Medical College; One of the First Female AA physicians in New York City; 1st AA woman to intern at Harlem Hospital; 1st female physician to ride with ambulance crews of Harlem Hospital for emergency calls; 1st AA woman, and for several years the only woman, to practice medicine in Harlem; and 1st AA woman to receive admitting privileges at Harlem Hospital.
ref= [http://www.nmacdst.org/nmac_presidents_page.htm] [http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/chinn.html] FratMember
name=Ruth Bates Harris
chapter="unknown"
nota=First Female Deputy Assistant Administrator of NASA
ref= [http://fozzy.wvstateu.edu/student/organizations/DeltaSigmaTheta/trailblazers.htm] FratMember
name=Joan Higginbotham
chapter="unknown"
nota=An American engineer; Former NASA Astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle "Discovery" mission STS-116 as a mission specialist; Third African-American female to go into space
ref= [ http://www.fit.edu/alumni/specialinterests/joanhigginbotham.html] FratMember
name=Juvonda S. Hodge
chapter="unknown"
nota=First female African-American General Surgeon in Mobile, Ala.
ref= [ http://mobilealumnaedst.org/deltas.html ] FratMember
name=Betty Smith Williams
chapter="unknown" |nota=Founder, charter member and 7th President of the National Black Nurses Association; American Academy of Nursing fellow.
ref= [ [http://www.aetna.com/diversity/aahcalendar/2003/pdf/aahc.pdf] .] FratMember
name=Marie Wright
chapter= "unknown"
nota=First woman to receive a dental degree from Meharry Dental College in 1919; One of the founders of the Urban League of Flint, MI; first black employee of the Flint Public Library system |ref= [ [http://www.flint.lib.mi.us/flintprofiles/ninamills/1997text/wrightM.html] . Retrieved 7/2/08.]

Law and judges

FratMember|name=Jean Murrell Capers |chapter= "unknown" |nota= First black woman in the U.S. to be elected as a City Council member; First to serve as an Assistant County Prosecutor in Cuyahoga County; Former Cleveland Municipal Court Judge.
ref= [http://www.louisdb.org/documents/cr/2008/mr/10/cr10mr08-94.html.] FratMember|name=Honorable Angelina Blackshear Dalton|chapter=Beta Chi |nota= First African American woman to be elected judge in the city of Nashville, Tennessee; General Sessions Court Judge, Division III.
ref= [http://gscourt.nashville.gov/portal/page/portal/generalSessions/judges/judgeDalton.html.] [http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=31695&page=12] FratMember
name=Eileen A. Olds
chapter=Kappa Rho
nota= Current Judge of the Chesapeake (VA) Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court' 46th President of the American Judges Association (AJA) (2007-08); First female and first African American judge of the First Judicial District of Virginia - 1995; First judge from Virginia to lead the AJA since its founding in 1959
ref= [http://www.blacknews.com/pr/eileenolds101.html.]

Law enforcement

FratMember
name=Cassandra M. Chandler
chapter= "unknown"
nota= Assistant Director for Training at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Highest ranking AA women at the FBI.
ref= [cite web |url=http://www.africanamericandigest.com/Cassandra_Chandler_Profile.html |title=African American Digest, People Doing Great Things |publisher=African American Digest |access date=2008-08-01] FratMember
name=Beverly J. Harvard
chapter= "unknown"
nota= Former Chief of Atlantic Police Department; 1st AA woman in the nation to run a major police department.
ref= [ cite web |url=http://www.topblacks.com/Profiles/Government/Harvard,-Beverly.aspx |title=Positive Profiles of People of Color |publisher= TopBlacks |access date=2008-08-01]

Military

Political figures

Humanitarian and social causes

FratMember
name=Camille Cosby
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Producer of the Broadway Show "Having Our Say"; Wife of Bill Cosby; Philanthropist
ref=cite web|url=http://wofford.edu/deltaSigmaTheta/content.aspx?id=11388 |title=Famous Sorors |accessdate=2007-12-24 |publisher=Wofford College Delta Sigma Theta] FratMember|name=Marian Wright Edelman|chapter="Honorary"|nota=President and Founder of the Children's Defense Fund, Established and Directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Office in Jackson, Mississippi; First Black Women admitted to the Mississippi Bar
ref= [cite web|url=http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/DocServer/CPP_article_Delta_Journal.pdf | title= A Delta’s Point of View Attacking the Cradle to Prison Pipeline |first = Marian |last= Wright Edelman |publisher = Delta Sigma Theta Journal, Fall 2006] FratMember
name=Dorothy Irene Height
chapter=Rho
nota=President of the National Council of Negro Women, administrator, Educator, Civil Rights activist, and a Recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal;
ref= [cite web| url=http://www.dstnyac.org/noteworthy_members.shtml| title = Noteworthy NYAC Members |publisher = New York Alumnae Chapter - Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. |accessdate= 2008-07-04] FratMember
name=Lillian Roberts
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Labor Leader; Former U.S. Department of Labor Commissioner; First Black woman to head the New York State Labor Department
ref=FratMember
name=Rae Lewis-Thornton
chapter="Honorary"
nota=AIDS activist and educational speaker; Baptist minister; Founder of Rae Lewis-Thornton, Inc.;
ref= [http://www.raelewisthornton.org/bio.html About Rae Lewis Thornton] . Rae Lewis-Thornton, Inc. Retrieved January 5, 2008.]

Non-elected officials

FratMember
name=Shirley Barnes
chapter="unknown"
nota=Former Ambassador to Madagascar
ref= [cite news |date=1993-08-03 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_10_94/ai_54367697 |title=Diplomat Shirley Barnes Is Confirmed For Envoy Post In Madagascar |work=Jet |publisher=Johnson Publishing |accessdate=2008-06-29] FratMember
name= Honorable Viola O. Baskerville
chapter= Richmond Alumnae
nota= Secretary of Administration to Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine; 2nd African American and the only African American female cabinet head in his current administration; Former Vice Mayor of the Richmond City Council; Former member of the Virginia House of Delegates; 1st African American woman to run for Lieutenant Governor in VA.
ref= [http://www.administration.virginia.gov/OfficeInfo/BaskervilleBio.cfm ] FratMember
name=Pamela E. Bridgewater
chapter="unknown"
nota=Current Ambassador to Ghana; Former Ambassador to Benin; First African-American woman to be appointed Consul General in Durban
ref= [ [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/54587.htm United States Ambassador to Ghana: Pamela E. Bridgewater] . U.S. State Department. Retrieved on January 6, 2008.] FratMember
name=Alexis Herman
chapter=Gamma Alpha
nota=First African-American Secretary of Labor (1997-2001)
ref=FratMember
name=Margaret McDonald
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Former Ambassador to the U.S. from Nassau, Bahamas
ref= [ [http://www.bahlibs.org/article.asp?Article_Headline=376&HiddenID=25&Hidden_Descrip=Article_Category] . |accessdate=2008-06-29 ] FratMember
name=Patricia Roberts Harris
chapter=Alpha
nota=First Black Female U.S. Ambassador (1965; Luxembourg), First African-American Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
ref=FratMember
name=Barbara Mae Watson
chapter="unknown"
nota=First African American woman to serve as a Chief of State Department Bureau; Former Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs for the U.S. State Department; First African American woman to serve as a U.S. Ambassador; Former Ambassador to Malaysia |ref= [cite web |url=http://www.deltasigmatheta.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=91&Itemid=90 |title=Notable Deltas |publisher=Delta Sigma Theta Sorority |accessdate=2008-06-29] [cite news |last=Hevesi |first=Dennis |date=1993-06-03 |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE1DB1038F930A35755C0A965958260&sec=&spon= |title=Douglas C. Watson, Design Engineer, 73, In Military Aviation |work=The New York Times |publisher=nytimes.com |accessdate=2008-06-29]

U.S. politicians

FratMember
name=Dixie Allen
chapter="unknown"
nota= Former State Representative for the 39th House District in Ohio (1998-2006).
ref= [ http://www.georgewashingtonwilliams.org/legislators.cfm?letter=A&legislator=18 ] FratMember
name=Diana Bajoie
chapter="unknown"
nota= State Senator for the 5th District in Louisiana; 1st AA woman elected to the Louisiana State Senate; Founder of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus.
ref= [http://thefuturepac.com/who/board/dbajoie/] FratMember
name=Joyce Beatty
chapter="unknown"
nota= First African-American woman in the State of Ohio to serve as the Minority Leader in the Ohio House of Representatives for the Democratic Party; Vice Chair of Education for the National Black Conference of State Legislators; President of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus Foundation; First African-American female to serve as chairman of the Columbus Urban League Board.
ref= [ http://www.house.state.oh.us/index.php?option=com_displaymembers&task=detail&district=27 ] [ http://www.georgewashingtonwilliams.org/legislators.cfm?letter=B&legislator=10022 ] FratMember
name=Amber Boykins
chapter="unknown"
nota= Former Missouri State Representative; Youngest African American woman legislator elected in the history of the Missouri House.
ref= [ http://www.house.state.oh.us/index.php?option=com_displaymembers&task=detail&district=27 ] [ http://house.missouri.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills03/member/bio060.htm ] FratMember
name=Carol Moseley Braun
chapter="Honorary"
nota=First African-American female U.S. Senator, Represented Illinois 1992-1998
ref=FratMember
name=Barbara-Rose Collins
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Former U.S. Congresswoman of Michigan's 15th congressional district, First African-American ever elected to Congress from Michigan
ref=FratMember
name=Shirley Chisholm
chapter="unknown"
nota= First African-American woman elected to Congress; First African-American and the First female to run as a major party candidaate for Presidential candidate in 1972
ref=FratMember
name=Linda W. Cropp
chapter="unknown"
nota=Former DC Councilwoman At-large; Former Council Chairwomanman of the District of Columbia City Council; 1st woman chairwoman
ref= [ http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2006/05/01/News/Web-Extra.Cropp.Addresses.Sorority.Members-1897076.shtml?norewrite200606211649&sourcedomain=www.gwhatchet.com] [http://www.dccouncil.washington.dc.us/CROPP/cropp_content.html] FratMember
name=Lois DeBerry
chapter=Alpha Upsilon
nota=First African-American female Speaker Pro Tempore for the Tennessee House of Representatives; Former President Emeritus of National Black Caucus of State Legislators; 1st AA woman from Memphis, Tennessee elected to the House.
ref= [http://www.angelfire.com/ult/alphaupsilon/page0008.htm ] [http://thefuturepac.com/who/board/ldeberry/] FratMember
name=Shirley Franklin
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
ref=FratMember
name=Marcia Fudge, Esq.
chapter=
nota=Current Mayor of Warrensville Heights, Ohio (since 01/2000); Past national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.(1996-2000); Democratic candidate for Ohio's 11th congressional district - United States House of Representatives for the 2008 election (special election to replace U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH))
ref=FratMember
name=Edith Green
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Former U.S. Congresswoman of Oregon's 3rd congressional district (1955-1974)
ref=FratMember
name=Laura Hall
chapter="unknown"
nota=State representative for 19th District of the Alabama House of Representatives, since 1993; 1st AA woman to represent the 19th District; Former chairwoman of the Governor’s Commission on AIDS.
ref= [http://thefuturepac.com/who/board/lhall/] [http://www.legislature.state.al.us/Searchableinstruments/2008RS/Resolutions/HR95.htm] FratMember
name=LaDonna Harris
chapter="Honorary"
nota=Vice Presidential nominee of the Citizens Party
ref=FratMember
name=Tracy Maxwell Heard
chapter="unknown"
nota= State Representative for the 26th House District in Ohio.
ref= [ http://www.georgewashingtonwilliams.org/legislators.cfm?letter=H&legislator=10045 ] FratMember
name=Helen L. Holton
chapter="unknown"
nota= Member of the Baltimore City Council (8th District).
ref= [ http://helenholton.org/about.html ] FratMember
name=Adrenne Hooper Wooten
chapter="unknown"
nota= State Representative for District 71 in Jackson, Mississippi.
ref= [ http://www.vote4awooten.com/Awooten_biography_2.htm ] FratMember
name=Barbara Jordan
chapter=Delta Gamma
nota=Congressional member from Texas's 18th congressional district (1973-1979)
ref=http://deltasigmatheta.xohost.com/inside.php?id=0305AH4N Delta Sigma Theta - Notable Deltas. Retrieved on December 14, 2007.] FratMember
name=Carrie Meek
chapter=Beta Alpha
nota=Former U.S. Congresswoman of Florida's 17th congressional district (1993-2003), First African-American elected to Congress from Florida since Reconstruction
ref= [http://www.carriemeekfoundation.org/bio.html. Retrieved onJune 30, 2008] FratMember
name=Jacque Robinson
chapter="unknown"
nota= Member of the Pasadena City, California City Council (1st District).
ref= [ http://www.ci.pasadena.ca.us/district1/ ] FratMember
name=Lottie Shackelford
chapter=Gamma Gamma
nota=First Female mayor of Little Rock, AR; Current Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee
ref= [http://www.democrats.org/a/party/shackelford.html.] FratMember
name=Stephanie Tubbs Jones
chapter=Cleveland Alumnae
nota=U.S. Congressional Member from Ohio's 11th congressional district; 1st black woman to represent Ohio in the House; Former chairwoman of the House Ethics Committee (since 2007); 1st black woman to serve on the House Ways and Means committee.
ref= [http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g5atlJ9I4IGbTPQB-hNQA0uwlyPQD92M75100]

World leaders

FratMember
name=Winnie Mandela
chapter="Honorary"
nota=First Black Social Worker in South Africa; Anti-apartheid advocate; Former Leader of the African National Congress, Women's League, Member of the ANC's National Executive Committee; Ex-wife of former South African president
ref=

Religion

FratMember
name=Debora Jackson
chapter= Gamma Nu
nota= First African American and First Female Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Massachusetts
ref=cite web |url=http://www.easternregiondst.org/downloads/HERStoriesSP08_Part2.pdf|title= H.E.R. Stories|publisher=Eastern Region - Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated|accessdate=2007-11-09] FratMember
name=Edith White Ming
chapter="Honorary"
nota= First African American world president of the World Federation of Methodist Women
ref=FratMember
name=Vashti Murphy McKenzie
chapter=Baltimore Alumnae Chapter
nota=First Female Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; National Chaplain of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. Grand-daughter of Delta Sigma Theta Founder, Vashti Turley Murphy.
ref=

ports

FratMember
name=Andree Pickens
chapter=Lambda Zeta
nota= Two-time individual NCAA Champion; Former captain of Alabama's NCAA Gymnastics Championship squad; Former member of U.S. National gymnastics team; extra in the movie "Stick It"
ref= [cite web | url=http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:r0vHWgBpaSkJ:www.rolltide.com/sports/w-track/spec-rel/070108aaa.html+%22andree+pickens%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=25&gl=us | title=Andree Pickens Competes for Olympic Pole Vault Berth This Week | publisher=Rolltide.com | accessdate=2008-07-22] FratMember
name=Wilma Rudolph
chapter=Alpha Chi
nota=First American woman to win three gold medals in track and field during one of the Olympic Games
ref= [cite web | url=http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/rudo-wil.htm | title=Wilma Rudolph biography | publisher=Women in History | accessdate=2007-06-11] FratMember
name=Olympia Scott-Richardson
chapter=Omicron Chi
nota=WNBA player for the Indiana Fever
ref=

Other

Citations

References

*cite book | last=Giddings |first=Paula|authorlink=Paula Giddings| title=In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenges of the Black Sorority Movement | year=1988 |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers |location=New York
*cite book | last=Ross, Jr. |first=Lawrence |authorlink=Lawrence Ross| title=The Divine Nine: The History of African-American Fraternities and Sororities in America | year=2000 |publisher=Kensington |location=New York

External links

* [http://www.deltasigmatheta.org Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated Official Website]