Notable Delta Gammas
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sigma- NorthwesternJulia is an Emmy award winning actress and was featured as Elaine on Seinfeld. She was a member of Sigma chapter here at Northwestern University.
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Ann CoulterAnn is the author of five New York Times bestsellers. She is a legal correspondent for Human Events and writes a popular syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate.
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Patricia Heaton, Epsilon-Ohio StateAwards won: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy for Everybody Loves Raymond in 2000 and 2001, Q Award (Quality Television Awards) Best Actress in a Quality Television Series in 1999 and 2000. She has also been nominated for many other awards.
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Sabrina Bryan, Zeta Iota-ChapmanSabrina is an actress, singer, dancer and one of the members of the Disney Channel musical group Cheetah Girls. (She plays the character Dorinda.) Sabrina performed on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. Sabrina also has her own dance/fitness video for girls titled BYOU.
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Julia Sweeney, Beta-WashingtonCast member of “Saturday Night Live” from 1990 to 1994, and made famous by the character, “Pat.” Film credits include “It’s Pat!” (1994), “Pulp Fiction” (1994), and “National Lampoon’s Vegas Vacation” (1997).
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Carolyn Englefield, Beta Mu-Bowling GreenFormer Senior decorating editor for House Beautiful magazine and currently a freelance Producer for House & Garden, Elle Decor, Veranda, Vanity and House Beautiful Magazines stationed in Paris, France.
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Sarah Tilghman Hughes (1896-1985), Psi II-GoucherJudge Sarah Tilghman Hughes was the first female federal judge, and the first woman to swear in a U.S. President (Lyndon B. Johnson, on the day of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963).
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Rita Colwell, Beta Iota-PurdueChairman of Canon US Life Sciences, Inc. and Distinguished Professor both at the University of Maryland at College Park and at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a 2005 Purdue University Distinguished Alumni honoree.
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Ruth Bryan Owen, Kappa-NebraskaThe daughter of William Jennings Bryan, Ruth Bryan Owen became a member of the Seventy-first Congress in 1929 as Florida’s first woman elected to Congress. In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her Minister to Denmark; she was the first woman to represent the United States in so high a diplomatic post.
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Molly Hering Bordonaro, Phi – ColoradoAppointed by President Bush as US Ambassador to Malta (2005).
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Mary Frann (1943-1998), Sigma-NorthwesternHer television roles included Joanna Loudon in CBS’s Newhart (1982-1990) and Amanda Howard Peters on NBC’s Days of Our Lives soap opera (1974-1979). She won the America’s Junior Miss title in 1961.
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Melissa Hart, Epsilon Delta-Washington & Jefferson CollegeU.S. Congresswoman, Pennsylvania
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Mary Landrieu, Gamma Zeta-Louisiana StateU.S. senator, state of Louisiana, and immediate past Louisiana State Treasurer.
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Jill Savery, Gamma-California, BerkeleyMember of the U.S. synchronized swimming team that won a gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
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Joan Lunden, Delta Eta-California State, SacramentoJoan Lunden’s: “Best known as former co-host of ABC’s “Good Morning, America,” She is the author of several books, including Joan Lunden’s Healthy Living (Crown Publishers, April 1997). She is also the national spokesperson for MADD – Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
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Jo Ann Herman Emerson, Alpha Rho-Ohio WesleyanU.S. Congressman, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
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Edith Abbott, Kappa-NebraskaFirst woman to become dean of a graduate school at an American university, the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, which developed under her leadership as the nation’s first school of social work.
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Deborah Cook, Eta-AkronFederal Judge for the Court of Appeals for the Sixth District.
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Carin Cone Vanderbush, Gamma Sigma-HoustonA 1956 Olympic silver medalist (100m Back) and six-time world record swimmer. Vanderbush was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honor Swimmer in 1984.
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Ann Daly, Alpha Sigma-UCLADreamWorks Animation’s chief operating officer since October 2004. Previously, head of the animation division of DreamWorks.
