Notable Zetas
Science and Engineering
Soror Rear Admiral Evelyn J. Fields
NOAA Director, NOAA Marine and Aviation Operations and Director, NOAA Corps.
Politics and Law
Soror Bernice Donald, honorable
First black woman elected to the Tennessee Judiciary.
Soror Julia Carson
US Representative - Indiana.
Soror Yvonne Miller
Virginia State Senator - District 5.
Soror Violette Anderson
1st Woman of color to practice law before the US Supreme court.
Soror Dr. Deborah Wolfe
Former U.S. Education Chief, U.S. House of Representative committee on Education and Labor, and Chairperson of the New Jersey Board of Higher Education.
Soror Mary McAllister
NC House of Representatives.
Soror Bernette J. Johnson
First black female State Supreme Court justice in Louisiana.
Soror Cynthia Willard-Lewis
New Orleans City Councilwoman.
Soror Joan Carter
Petersburg, VA City Councilwoman.
Soror Honorable Andrei Ellen Lee
First African American General Session Judge in Nashville.
Soror Curlie E. McGruder
Civil Rights Activist.
Soror Honorable Tomie T. Green
1st Female and 1st African American Female Elected Circuit Judge in the 7th Judicial District State of Mississippi.
Soror Honorable Patricia Wise
1st African American Chancery Judge Elected Chancery Judge in the 5th Judicial District State of Mississippi. 1st Female Elected President of the African American Magnolia Bar Association State of Mississippi.
Soror Honorable Eleanor Faye Peterson
1st Black Female Elected District Attorney in the entire State of Mississippi. 1st African American and 1st Female elected District Attorney in the 7th Judicial Distict - State of Mississippi.
Soror Esther M. Harrison
MS House of Representatives.
Entertainment
Soror Janet Dubois
Actress/Singer
Soror Esther Rolle
Actress best known for her role as Florida on the long running CBS television series, Good Times. She was recently featured in Rosewood and Down in the Delta.
Soror Sheryl Underwood
Comedian. Considered one of the boldest women in comedy she has appeared in shows such as Russell Simmons Def Comedy Jam, BET's comic view, and the Lou Rawls Parade of Stars. She also donates 5% of all her road earnings to her beloved sorority.
Soror Dr. Tonea H. Stewart
Actress & first African American to star and later direct at the New Stage Theatre in Jackson, MS.
Soror Sarah Vaughn
International Jazz Singer. On October 1942, she entered and won the 'Amateur Night' contest held at New York's famed Apollo Theatre. She was launched on a career where she sang with such greats as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Art Blakey and Budd Johnson -legendary founders of the modernist 'Be-Bop' era. Once she had gone solo - as she was to stay for the rest of her career - she began to establish herself as a force in her own right.
Soror Minnie Riperton
Entertainer. Her 70s soul classic "Loving You", was entitled "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Center of the Ultra world" (1989). The record was eventually a hit, but
its greater significance lies in its claim to being the first ever ambient house record.
Soror Dionne Warwick
Singer. Among her other hits are the #1 "Then Came You" (with The Spinners) andthe Grammy winning "That's What Friends Are For" (with Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder and Elton John), She earned seven Top 40 singles in the Eighties alone, Overall, she's garnered one platinum, five gold albums including1985's Friends) and five Grammy Awards.
Soror Grace Bumbry
Opera Singer
Soror Syleena Johnson
Singer
Education
Soror Dr. Elizabeth D. Koontz
1st Black President of the National Education Astn.
Soror Dr. Joyce Payne
Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund Founder.
Soror Josephine Groves Holloway
Organized the Girl Scouts for African American Girls in Nashville, TN.