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Alpha Delta Pi is an international collegiate sorority. Following is a list of notable Alpha Delta Pi members.

Academia

• Irene Dillard Elliot (Nu) – first Dean of Women at the University of South Carolina; first woman to receive Ph.D. from USC
• Harriet Elliott (Phi) – Dean of Women at the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
• Virginia Trotter (Alpha Eta) – former University of Georgia president

Entertainment

• Kathy Bates (Alpha Zeta) – actress known for Titanic, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Waterboy, and Failure to Launch
• Alexis Bellino (Alpha Gamma) – cast member of The Real Housewives of Orange County
• Bree Boyce (Zeta Phi) – Miss South Carolina 2011
• Maggie Bridges (Zeta Omicron) – Miss Georgia 2014
• Kate Capshaw (Alpha Gamma) – actress and wife of Steven Spielberg
• Deana Carter (Alpha Kappa) – country singer
• Carrie Coon (Gamma Theta) – actress
• Julia Crane (Gamma Tau) – Miss Vermont 2018
• Jenna Day (Beta Psi) – Miss Kentucky 2013
• Cathy Deupree (Eta) – singer
• Ainsley Earhardt (Iota and Beta Epsilon) – journalist and co-host of FOX & Friends
• Monique Evans (Delta) – Miss Texas 2014
• Karen Fairchild (Kappa) – country singer; member of Little Big Town
• Nancy Grace (Delta Theta) – CNN News host
• Mallory Todd Hudson (Beta Psi) – Miss Kentucky 2023
• Rachael Kirkconnell (Zeta Iota) – television personality
• Anna Kooiman (Eta Alpha) – reporter and co-host on FOX & Friends weekend
• Neva Jane Langley (Gamma Gamma) – Miss America, 1953
• Sienna Mascareñas (Eta) – Miss New Mexico 2021; Miss New Mexico's Outstanding Teen 2017
• Danica McKellar (Alpha Chi) – actress
• Lu Parker (Zeta Sigma) – Miss USA 1994; KTLA news correspondent
• Emily Procter (Delta Omicron) – actress
• Ali Rogers (Zeta Nu) – Miss South Carolina 2012–2013, 1st runner-up Miss America 2013
• Jean Smart (Alpha Theta) – actress
• Elle Smith (Beta Psi) – Miss Kentucky USA 2021, Miss USA 2021
• Mary Kate Wiles (Alpha Psi) – actress
• Kylie Williams (Iota) – Miss Florida 2007; contestant on Miss America: Reality Check
• Judy Woodruff (Omicron) – managing editor and anchor of PBS NewsHour

Law

• Robin Davis (Gamma Kappa) – most senior justice on the Supreme Court of West Virginia
• Maud McLure Kelly (Eta) – lawyer, suffragist, activist; first woman lawyer in Alabama
• Leslie Rutledge (Delta Delta) – Arkansas Attorney General

Literature

• Lauren Grandcolas (Delta) – author, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93
• Maureen G. Mulvaney (Epsilon Kappa) – author and motivational speaker
• Jessica Nelson North (Theta) – poet and author, editor of Poetry
• Carol Shields (Phi) – author; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1995

Politics

• Martha B. Alexander (Iota) – North Carolina General Assembly
• Kimberly Berfield (Zeta Omega) – Florida House of Representatives
• Robin Carnahan (Gamma Nu) – Missouri Secretary of State
• Louise Holland Coe (Alpha Nu) – first woman elected to the New Mexico Senate
• Karen Hughes (Alpha Zeta) –Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
• Jane Stinchfield Knapp (Alpha Delta) – Maine House of Representatives
• Jane Yelvington McCallum (Delta) –Secretary of State of Texas 1926, suffrage activist
• Viola Ross Napier (Adelphean) – first woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly
• Francine Irving Neff (Alpha Nu) – Treasurer of the United States
• Carol Rasco (Delta Delta) – Director of the Domestic Policy Council under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1996
• Jean B. Silver (Alpha Theta) – former member of Washington House of Representatives from 1983 to 1997

Science and medicine

• Sara Branham Matthews (Alpha) – senior bacteriologist for the United States Public Health Service
• Jessie Gray (Beta Zeta) – Canada's "First Lady of Surgery"
• Katherine Van Winkle Palmer (Alpha Theta) – former director of Paleontological Research Institution, first woman to receive a Ph.D. in Paleontology
• Diane Grob Schmidt (Beta Beta) – chemist, former president of American Chemical Society

Sports

• Kelli Finglass (Gamma Chi) – director of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
• Natalie McGiffert (Theta Mu) – 2016 Summer Olympics for Rhythmic Gymnastic
• Sandra Palmer (Gamma Upsilon) – professional golfer
• Summer Rae (Delta Omicron) – former professional wrestler

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