Elaine Bland Baxter
(ΒΑ-Illinois) Iowa
Secretary of State (1987-94). Former member of the
Iowa House of Representatives for three terms.
Appointed to Humanities Iowa board of directors by
Iowa Gov. Thomas Vilsack.
Nancy Osborn Brataas
(Ε-Minnesota) Retired Minnesota state
senator (1975-92), the first woman senator in Minnesota
history to be elected in her own right. Minority chairperson
of the senate employment committee (1978-92).
President/owner of Nancy Brataas Associates, Inc.
Becky Cook Cain
(ΒΙ-West
Virginia) Past national
president of the
League of Women
Voters
(1992-98).
President and CEO of the Greater Kanawha Valley Community
Foundation (see Fall 2001 Quarterly).
Named one of the
most powerful women in politics in Ladies’ Home Journal
(1996). Worked to achieve campaign finance reform in
Congress as the president of Campaign for America.
Marjorie "Bunny" Lawrence
Clement (ΒΓ-Colorado) Jefferson County, Colo.,
commissioner (1981-93). Appointed to succeed her late
husband and re-elected for three terms.
Anne Marie Conroy
(Λ-UC/Berkeley)
Youngest member to sit on San Francisco's board of
supervisors (1992). Executive director of Treasure Island
Development Authority, San Francisco. Current Emergency
Services executive director, San Francisco.
Mary Prior Dambman
(ΓΘ-Colorado College) Former Colorado state
representative.
Georgia Neese Gray
(Υ-Washburn)
First woman Treasurer of
the United States (1949-53), appointed by President Harry
Truman. She is a
past international president, active in politics and
chairman of the board of trustees of the Alpha Phi
Foundation.
Pauline Kubala Gubbels (Omega-Texas)
First female
president of the Albuquerque City Council (1989), former New
Mexico state representative (1994), president of the
National Order of Women Legislators, president of the
Albuquerque Rotary Charitable Foundation and winner of an
Alpha Phi Ursa Major Award (1988).
Charlene Prince Lawrence
(ΒΒ-Michigan State) Retired police chief. First
female captain of the Indianapolis Police Department
(1985-97).
Charlene Lugar (Beta Kappa-Denison)
Vice-chair of the board of trustees for the National March
of Dimes (1990). Chair of Mothers March of Dimes. Received
the March of Dimes Partners in Science Award. Established
the Charlene S. Lugar Birth Defects Grant Fund and
personally raised nearly $1 million for health education and
medical services programs in Indianapolis.
Grace Lockhart McCarthy
(ΒΑ-Illinois) Three-time
mayor of Pacifica, Calif.; civic leader; recipient
of Robert J. Koshiand Prize from the Peninsula
Community Foundation.
Shirley Pugh McLoughlin
(Ξ-Toronto and ΒΘ-British Columbia) Councillor for
the Town of Comox, British Columbia. Leader of the
Liberal Party in British Columbia (1981), the
first woman leader in Canada.
Janet Murguia
(Gamma Delta-Kansas)
First female president/CEO of
National Council of La Raza
(NCLR), the largest Hispanic advocacy organization in the
U.S. Former deputy assistant to President Clinton. Former
deputy campaign manager for the Gore/Lieberman 2000
presidential campaign. Former executive vice chancellor for
university relations at Kansas University (2001). Awards:
Latino Leaders magazine’s “101 Top Leaders of the Hispanic
Community” (2007), Hispanic magazine’s “Powerful Latinos
2007” and Washingtonian's “100 Most Powerful Women in
Washington” (2006).
Allison Cink Rickels (Epsilon Theta-Northern Iowa)
CEO/executive director of
Farmhouse Foundation, the first woman executive director
of a men’s fraternity educational foundation (since 2007).
Polly Cutler Rosenbaum
(ΒΓ-Colorado) Arizona state representative
continuously for 46 years (1949-94).
Bonnie McCulloch Scott
(ΔΜ-Purdue) Lt. commander in the U.S.
Navy, one of only 25 women out of more than 5,000 commanding
officers in the Navy.
Diane Steed
(ΓΔ-Kansas)
President, Coalition for Vehicle Choice (since
1991). Administrator of the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
(1983-89).
Founder of SUV Owners of America (SUVOA) and executive
director of the Roadway Safety Foundation.
Nancy Harvey
Steorts (Α-Syracuse)
President of Nancy Harvey Steorts International
consulting firm. Former chairman of the U.S.
Consumer Product Safety Commission under President
Ronald Reagan. Consultant to the director of the
U.S. Office on Consumer Affairs at the White House
and as special assistant for consumer affairs to
the Secretary of Agriculture during the Nixon and
Ford administrations. Author of Safety
and You (1999) and
Safe Living In A Dangerous World
(2003).
Eileen Hurney Stevens
(ΑΛ)
Founded CHUCK (Committee to Halt Useless College
Killings) to bring about awareness of hazing
practices. One of 10 Women of the Year, New York Daily News
(1993).
Adis Vila
(ΒΛ-Rollins)
Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture (1989). One of 14 White House Fellows (1982-83).
Named "One of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the
United States."
Among 10 Outstanding Young Women of America for 1983;
also among "100 Women of Promise" honored by Good
Housekeeping magazine in May, 1985.
Bishop Catherine Maples
Waynick (ΕΖ-Central Michigan) Ordained priest. One of only
eight women bishops in the U.S. Episcopal Church.
Erin Weed
(Epsilon Alpha-Eastern Illinois)
Author, speaker. Founder and executive director of
Girls Fight Back,
an education company dedicated to teaching women of all ages
about personal safety and self-defense. Wrote Girls Fight
Back.
Frances Willard (Alumnae Initiate)
The first woman represented among America’s great leaders in
Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. President of
Evanston College for Ladies. First dean of women at
Northwestern University. Helped organize the Chicago Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union (1874). President and founder of
the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (1879).
President of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
(1891). President of the National Council of Women. National
president of Alpha Phi (1887)
Lynn Robinson Woolsey
(Σ-Washington) Elected to her fifth term as
a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the Sixth
Congressional District in California (since 1992).
