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Elaine Bland Baxter
(Βeta
Αlpha-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
(Εpsilon-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
(Βeta
Ιota-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 (Βeta Gamma-Colorado)
Jefferson County,
Colo., commissioner (1981-93). Appointed to succeed her
late husband and re-elected for three terms.
Annemarie Conroy
(Lambda-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
(Gamma Theta-Colorado College)
Former Colorado state
representative.
Georgia Neese Gray
(Upsilon-Washburn)
First woman treasurer of the United
States (1949-53), appointed by President Harry Truman.
Past president of Alpha Phi International.
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
(Βeta Βeta-Michigan State)
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
(Βeta
Αlpha-Illinois)
Three-time mayor of Pacifica, Calif.
Civic leader. Recipient of Robert J. Koshiand Prize from
the Peninsula Community Foundation.
Shirley Pugh McLoughlin
(Xi-Toronto and Βeta Theta-British Columbia)
Councillor
for the Town of Comox, British Columbia. First woman
leader of the Liberal Party in British Columbia (1981).
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
(Βeta
Gamma-Colorado)
Arizona state representative
continuously for 46 years (1949-94).
Bonnie McCulloch Scott
(Delta Mu-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
(Gamma Delta-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
(Αlpha-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
(Αlpha
Lambda-Alumna Initiate)
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
(Beta
Lambda-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,” “10 Outstanding Young Women of America for
1983” and
Good
Housekeeping’s
"100 Women of Promise" (1985).
Bishop Catherine Maples Waynick
(Εpsilon Ζeta-Central Michigan)
One of
only eight women bishops in the U.S. Episcopal Church.
Erin Weed
(Zeta 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.
Frances E. Willard
(Alpha Lambda-Alumna 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).
MaryAnne Wilsbacher
(Beta Iota-West Virginia)
Assistant United States
Trustee, Columbus, Ohio.
Lynn Robinson Woolsey
(Sigma-Washington)
Elected to her eighth term as a
member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the
Sixth Congressional District in California (since 1992).
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