List of Chi Omega sisters

The list of Chi Omega sisters includes initiated and honorary members of Chi Omega.

Notable alumnae

Business

Name	Chapter	Notability	Ref(s)
Safra A. Catz	Beta Alpha	President and Chief Financial Officer of Oracle Corporation	[1]
Mignon Faget	Rho	New Orleans-based jewelry designer
Nancy Walton Laurie	Psi	Namesake of the Leadership Institute of Chi Omega, Niece of Sam Walton founder of Wal-Mart	[2]
Alice Marriott	Xi Alpha	Entrepreneur and philanthropist, wife of J. Willard Marriott	[3]
Kelsey Barnard Clark	Alpha Beta	Bravo Top Chef Winner Season 16

Entertainment

Angela Kinsey

Lucy Liu

Name	Chapter	Notability	Ref(s)
Natalie Allen	Epsilon Delta	CNN Anchor	[4]
Caroline Bright	Epsilon Kappa	Miss Vermont 2010
Tamira A. Cole	Sigma Kappa	Miss Black Kentucky USA, author, USA Today All-USA Academic All American and one of Glamour Magazine's Top 22 College Women	[5]
Kathryn Crosby	Iota	Actress	[3]
Joyce DeWitt	Phi Epsilon	Actress; Three's Company	[3]
Rhonda Bates	Chi Epsilon	Actress; The Roller Girls	[3]
Melissa Claire Egan	Epsilon Beta	Actress; All My Children	[6]
Ruth Ford	Tau	Actress	[3]
Taryn Foshee	Phi Delta	Miss Mississippi, 3rd runner up to Miss America	[7]
Sylvia Hitchcock	Nu Beta	1967 Miss USA and Miss Universe	[8]
Liza Huber	Epsilon Beta	Actress
Angela Kinsey	Theta Kappa	Actress; The Office	[9]
Lynne Koplitz	Iota Kappa	Stand-up comedian
Adair Tishler	Rho Mu	Child Actress
Toby Lightman	Nu	Singer/Songwriter	[10]
Lucy Liu	Eta	Actress known for her work on Charlie's Angels, Kill Bill and for her role as Ling Woo on Ally McBeal	[11]
Lynda Lee Mead	Tau	1960 Miss America, owner and president of Shea Design & French Country Imports	[12][13]
Linda Miller	Rho	Actress; All My Children	[3]
Mary Ann Mobley	Tau	Former "Miss America" (1959) and Television Actress	[3]
Beth Moore	Alpha Zeta	American evangelist, author, and bible teacher	[3]
Annie Mumolo	Mu	Actress/Writer/Producer; Bridesmaids	[14]
Catt Sadler	Theta Beta	E! News, E!'s Daily Ten	[3]
Jessica Michelle Singleton	Theta Theta	Stand-up comedian
Heather Thomas	Gamma Beta	Actress; The Fall Guy	[15]
Ann-Blair Thornton	Chi Theta	Miss Kentucky 2011
Sela Ward	Nu Beta	Actress; Sisters, The Fugitive, Once and Again, Dirty Dancing Havana Nights, House	[11]
Cece DeCorte	Lambda Alpha	[11]
Joanne Woodward	Phi Gamma	Academy Award Actress; Philadelphia, The Three Faces of Eve	[11]
Hope Driskill	Rho Alpha	Miss Missouri 2011 and Top 16 Miss USA, Survivor: Caramoan	[3]
Sloane Roberts	Psi	Miss Arkansas 2012	[3]
Ashton Campbell	Psi	Miss Arkansas 2014 and Miss America Runner Up 2014	[3]
Sarah Hider	Tau Alpha	Miss Ohio 2015	[3]
Shannon Sanderford	Epsilon Alpha	Miss Texas 2015	[3]
Mikaela Shaw	Psi Delta	Miss Wyoming 2015	[3]
Bethany Trahan	Phi Zeta	Miss Louisiana 2018	[3]

Government

Blanche Lincoln

Name	Chapter	Notability	Ref(s)
Marsha Blackburn	Phi Delta	Former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing Tennessee	[11]
Martha Layne Collins	Lambda Alpha	Former Governor of Kentucky	[3]
Shirley Hufstedler	Pi Gamma	First United States Secretary of Education	[3]
Blanche Lincoln	Psi	Former United States Senator from Arkansas	[11]
Molly Beth Malcolm	Sigma Zeta	First woman chairperson of the Texas Democratic Party
Jen Psaki	Omicron Beta	White House Press Secretary Democratic Party	[16]
Patricia Schroeder	Pi Beta	Former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing Colorado, first female Congresswoman from Colorado	[3]
Virginia Smith	Kappa	Former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing Nebraska	[3]
Joanna Shields	Nu Gamma	Baroness and British Parliamentarian	[3]
Carole Keeton Strayhorn	Iota	Former Texas Comptroller, made an unsuccessful run for Texas Governor in 2006 as an independent	[3]
Alison Lundergan Grimes	Kappa Beta	Current Secretary of State of Kentucky	[3]
Mary Ann Tobin	Lambda Alpha	Former Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts	[17]

Literature

Harper Lee

Name	Chapter	Notability	Ref(s)
Ellen Gilchrist	Sigma Epsilon	Author of Victory Over Japan, winner of the 1984 National Book Award for Fiction	[3]
Harper Lee	Nu Beta	Author of To Kill a Mockingbird, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient in 2007	[11]
Frances Mayes	Sigma	Author of the novel Under the Tuscan Sun	[11]
Anita Shreve	Chi Alpha	Author of The Pilot's Wife, The Weight of Water, and Sea Glass; O. Henry Award recipient in 1976
Genevieve Taggard	Mu	1931 Guggenheim Fellow and poet	[18]
Karen White	Rho	New York Times bestselling romantic fiction author

Science and education

Susan J. Helms

Name	Chapter	Notability	Ref(s)
Susan Athey	Mu Kappa	Professor of Economics at Harvard University, won the John Bates Clark Medal in 2007	[3]
Susan J. Helms	Pi Gamma	NASA astronaut and the first woman to live on the International Space Station	[11]
Dawn Clark Netsch	Xi	Law professor at Northwestern University, Illinois Comptroller
Sherri Whitt	Delta Kappa	Data Abstraction Welstar Health
Kathleen Rubins	Kappa Lambda	Selected as a member of the 20th NASA astronaut class	[19]
Janet Morgan Riggs	Tau Delta	President of Gettysburg College
Martha Dunagin Saunders	Epsilon Delta	President of the University of Southern Mississippi

Sports

Lin Dunn

Name	Chapter	Notability	Ref(s)
Christine Brennan	Xi	USA Today sports columnist, author, and sports commentator for ABC News, CNN, National Public Radio and Fox Sports Radio	[11]
Lin Dunn	Xi Zeta	Head basketball coach for WNBA teams Seattle Storm (2000–2002) and Indiana Fever (2008–present)	[20]
Pat Summitt	Xi Zeta	Head coach of the Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team, Basketball Hall of Fame and Women's Basketball Hall of Fame inductee	[11]
Melissa McNamara	Epsilon Gamma	Head coach of the Arizona State University Sun Devils women's golf team (2009 NCAA champions) and former pro golfer on the LPGA tour

References

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8. Abel, Fred. "Whatever Happened To...?". Pageantry Mag. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-08-30.
9. Limmer, Melissa (February 15, 2007). "From a Baylor Classroom to the hit The Office". The Baylor Lariat. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
10. Cohen, Jamie (April 13, 2004). "Toby Lightman goes pop!". BadgerHerald. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
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12. "People, Sep. 21, 1959". Time. September 21, 1959. Retrieved 2010-06-04.
13. "Home - French Country Imports". frenchcountry-imports.com. Archived from the original on 2018-08-27. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
14. "Hello, Hollywood! Check out this... - Chi Omega Fraternity". 2011-05-16. Retrieved 2014-08-20 – via Facebook.
15. "University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)". e-yearbook.com.
16. Feuerherd, Ben (20 January 2021). "Who Is Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary?". NY Post. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
17. Kentuckian Yearbook. University of Kentucky. 1963. p. 202. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
18. "Women To Sell For Fund". The New York Times. March 22, 1931.
19. "Astronaut Candidate Bio: Kathleen Rubins". NASA. September 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
20. Montieth, Mark (December 13, 2007). "Dunn wants Fever to be dynamic". Indianapolis Star.

External links

• Outstanding Chi Omegas