List of Chi Omega members

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

Notable members[edit]

Business[edit]

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	^{[citation needed]}
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[edit]

Name	Chapter	Notability	Ref(s)
Natalie Allen	Epsilon Delta	CNN Anchor	^[4]
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]
Caroline Carothers	Theta Kappa	Miss Texas 2016	^[7]
Taryn Foshee	Phi Delta	Miss Mississippi, 3rd runner up to Miss America	^[8]
Sylvia Hitchcock	Nu Beta	1967 Miss USA and Miss Universe	^[9]
Liza Huber	Epsilon Beta	Actress	^{[citation needed]}
Angela Kinsey	Theta Kappa	Actress; The Office	^[10]
Lynne Koplitz	Iota Kappa	Stand-up comedian	^{[citation needed]}
Adair Tishler	Rho Mu	Child Actress	^{[citation needed]}
Toby Lightman	Nu	Singer/Songwriter	^[11]
Lucy Liu	Eta	Actress known for her work on Charlie's Angels, Kill Bill and for her role as Ling Woo on Ally McBeal	^[12]
Lynda Lee Mead	Tau	1960 Miss America, owner and president of Shea Design & French Country Imports	^[13]^[14]
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	^[15]
Catt Sadler	Theta Beta	E! News, E!'s Daily Ten	^[3]
Jessica Michelle Singleton	Theta Theta	Stand-up comedian	^{[citation needed]}
Heather Thomas	Gamma Beta	Actress; The Fall Guy	^[16]
Ann-Blair Thornton	Chi Theta	Miss Kentucky 2011
Sela Ward	Nu Beta	Actress; Sisters, The Fugitive, Once and Again, Dirty Dancing Havana Nights, House	^[12]
Cece DeCorte	Lambda Alpha	^[12]
Joanne Woodward	Phi Gamma	Academy Award Actress; Philadelphia, The Three Faces of Eve	^[12]
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[edit]

Name	Chapter	Notability	Ref(s)
Marsha Blackburn	Phi Delta	United States Senator representation Tennessee. Former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing Tennessee	^[12]
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	^[12]
Molly Beth Malcolm	Sigma Zeta	First woman chairperson of the Texas Democratic Party	^{[citation needed]}
Jen Psaki	Omicron Beta	White House Press Secretary Democratic Party	^[17]
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	Former Secretary of State of Kentucky	^[3]
Mary Ann Tobin	Lambda Alpha	Former Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts	^[18]
Stephanie Murphy	Omicron Beta	Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing Florida, 7th Congressional District	^[19]

Literature[edit]

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	^[12]
Frances Mayes	Sigma	Author of the novel Under the Tuscan Sun	^[12]
Anita Shreve	Chi Alpha	Author of The Pilot's Wife, The Weight of Water, and Sea Glass; O. Henry Award recipient in 1976	^{[citation needed]}
Genevieve Taggard	Mu	1931 Guggenheim Fellow and poet	^[20]
Karen White	Rho	New York Times bestselling romantic fiction author	^{[citation needed]}

Philanthropy[edit]

Name	Chapter	Notability	Ref(s)
Cynthia Germanotta	Theta	Philanthropist, President of Born This Way Foundation, mother of Lady Gaga and Natali Germanotta	^[21]

Science and education[edit]

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	^[12]
Dawn Clark Netsch	Xi	Law professor at Northwestern University, Illinois Comptroller	^{[citation needed]}
Sherri Whitt	Delta Kappa	Data Abstraction Wellstar Health System	^{[citation needed]}
Kathleen Rubins	Kappa Lambda	Selected as a member of the 20th NASA astronaut class	^[22]
Janet Morgan Riggs	Tau Delta	President of Gettysburg College	^{[citation needed]}
Martha Dunagin Saunders	Epsilon Delta	President of the University of Southern Mississippi	^{[citation needed]}

Sports[edit]

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	^[12]
Lin Dunn	Xi Zeta	Head basketball coach for WNBA teams Seattle Storm (2000–2002) and Indiana Fever (2008–present)	^[23]
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	^[12]
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	^{[citation needed]}

References[edit]

^ "Safra Catz is President of Oracle Corporation". The Eleusis. 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
^ "Foundation Leadership". Chi Omega. Archived from the original on 2007-09-18. Retrieved 2007-08-30.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y "Prominent Chi Omegas" (PDF). Chi Omega. Retrieved 2007-08-30.
^ [1] Archived March 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
^ "Glamour girl an inspiration". The Eleusis. 2006. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
^ "About Melissa". Melissa Egan Official Site. Retrieved 2008-04-24.
^ Press, Rick (July 3, 2016). "Baylor baton twirler wins Miss Texas 2016". Star-Telegram. Retrieved 2022-03-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Biography". TarynFoshee.com. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-30.
^ Abel, Fred. "Whatever Happened To...?". Pageantry Mag. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-08-30.
^ Limmer, Melissa (February 15, 2007). "From a Baylor Classroom to the hit The Office". The Baylor Lariat. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
^ Cohen, Jamie (April 13, 2004). "Toby Lightman goes pop!". BadgerHerald. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k "Outstanding Chi Omegas". Chi Omega. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-06-07.
^ "People, Sep. 21, 1959". Time. September 21, 1959. Archived from the original on October 31, 2007. Retrieved 2010-06-04.
^ "Home - French Country Imports". frenchcountry-imports.com. Archived from the original on 2018-08-27. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
^ "Hello, Hollywood! Check out this... - Chi Omega Fraternity". 2011-05-16. Retrieved 2014-08-20 – via Facebook.
^ "University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)". e-yearbook.com.
^ Feuerherd, Ben (20 January 2021). "Who Is Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary?". NY Post. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
^ Kentuckian Yearbook. University of Kentucky. 1963. p. 202. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
^ "The Chi Omega Symphony Guides New U.S. Congresswoman – Chi Omega". Retrieved 2021-12-21.
^ "Women To Sell For Fund". The New York Times. March 22, 1931.
^ ""Pick Yourself Up" – Lady Gaga's West Virginia Roots and Her Grandma's Inspiring Words That Helped Make a Star". 11 March 2019.
^ "Astronaut Candidate Bio: Kathleen Rubins". NASA. September 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
^ Montieth, Mark (December 13, 2007). "Dunn wants Fever to be dynamic". Indianapolis Star.

External links[edit]

Outstanding Chi Omegas

[1] "Safra Catz is President of Oracle Corporation". The Eleusis. 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-30.

[2] "Foundation Leadership". Chi Omega. Archived from the original on 2007-09-18. Retrieved 2007-08-30.

[XO2-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y "Prominent Chi Omegas" (PDF). Chi Omega. Retrieved 2007-08-30.

[4] [1] Archived March 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

[5] "Glamour girl an inspiration". The Eleusis. 2006. Retrieved 2010-01-30.

[6] "About Melissa". Melissa Egan Official Site. Retrieved 2008-04-24.

[7] Press, Rick (July 3, 2016). "Baylor baton twirler wins Miss Texas 2016". Star-Telegram. Retrieved 2022-03-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[8] "Biography". TarynFoshee.com. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-30.

[9] Abel, Fred. "Whatever Happened To...?". Pageantry Mag. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-08-30.

[10] Limmer, Melissa (February 15, 2007). "From a Baylor Classroom to the hit The Office". The Baylor Lariat. Retrieved 2007-08-31.

[11] Cohen, Jamie (April 13, 2004). "Toby Lightman goes pop!". BadgerHerald. Retrieved 2007-08-31.

[XO-12] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k "Outstanding Chi Omegas". Chi Omega. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-06-07.

[13] "People, Sep. 21, 1959". Time. September 21, 1959. Archived from the original on October 31, 2007. Retrieved 2010-06-04.

[14] "Home - French Country Imports". frenchcountry-imports.com. Archived from the original on 2018-08-27. Retrieved 2010-01-17.

[15] "Hello, Hollywood! Check out this... - Chi Omega Fraternity". 2011-05-16. Retrieved 2014-08-20 – via Facebook.

[16] "University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)". e-yearbook.com.

[17] Feuerherd, Ben (20 January 2021). "Who Is Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary?". NY Post. Retrieved 25 January 2021.

[18] Kentuckian Yearbook. University of Kentucky. 1963. p. 202. Retrieved July 24, 2018.

[19] "The Chi Omega Symphony Guides New U.S. Congresswoman – Chi Omega". Retrieved 2021-12-21.

[20] "Women To Sell For Fund". The New York Times. March 22, 1931.

[21] ""Pick Yourself Up" – Lady Gaga's West Virginia Roots and Her Grandma's Inspiring Words That Helped Make a Star". 11 March 2019.

[22] "Astronaut Candidate Bio: Kathleen Rubins". NASA. September 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-30.

[23] Montieth, Mark (December 13, 2007). "Dunn wants Fever to be dynamic". Indianapolis Star.

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