Famous Alpha Phis

Theatre/Performing Arts

Jeri Ryan - Actress. Currently starring in the TV series Shark on CBS as Jessica Devlin. She played Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager. She was in Fox's TV series Boston Public. Other television credits include Melrose Place, Matlock, and Dark Skies. Films include Men Cry Bullets, The Last Man, Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 and a cameo in Disney's The Kid.

 

Kimberly Williams - Actress. Movies: Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride: Part 2, and Indian Summer. Stage credits: Vagina Monologues. Television credits: Neil Simon's Jake's Women, Relativity, The 10th Kingdom miniseries and Hallmark commercials. She appears this fall on ABC's According to Jim.

 

Holly Evans - Radio City Rockette.

 

Martie Ramm Engle - Broadway producer, choreographer, singer, dancer, director. Part of Walt Disney Theatrical Productions, supervising worldwide productions of Beauty and the Beast. Member of the Broadway touring companies of A Chorus Line, Sweet Charity, Evita and Annie.

 

Maile Misajon - Singer, actress. In female pop group Eden's Crush and on Popstars television series. Has appeared in several commercials. Albums include Popstars, featuring the group's hit single "Get Over Yourself".

 

Randy Mayem Singer - Writer and producer. Wrote screenplay for Mrs. Doubtfire (1993). Television credits: writer and producer of Hudson Street (1995) and creator and executive producer of Jack & Jill (1999-2000).

 

Business/Nonprofit

Sue Robertson Cunnold - Volunteer trainer for Girl Scouts of the USA. Member of the Friends of Our Chalet USA Committee, one of four world centers, located in Switzerland. Involved with Girl Scouts for 45 years.

 

Judy Adelizzi Parker - President and business partner of Devlin Design Group, Inc., an Emmy Award-winning broadcast design firm.

 

Susanne Solomon - Owner of Baby Greek, Inc., selling Greek-lettered baby gifts and clothes, the first business of its kind in the U.S.

 

Public Service

Elaine Bland Baxter - 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.

 

Georgia Neese Gray - First woman Treasurer of the United States (1949-53), appointed by President Harry Truman.

 

Bonnie McCulloch Scott - Lt. commander in the U.S. Navy, one of only 25 women out of more than 5,000 commanding officers in the Navy.

 

Adis Vila - 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 Good Housekeeping magazine's "100 Women of Promise" (1985).

 

Lawyers/Judges

Carol Manhood Huddart - Appointed to the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the highest court in the province (1996). Appointed to County Court (1981) and Supreme Court (1987).

 

Veronica "Ronni" Mathein - Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill., the world's largest unified court system. Domestic Relations Division (since 1996).

 

Dorothy Wright Nelson - Senior judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, appointed in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter (senior judge since 1995). Former dean of the University of Southern California Law Center.

 

Louise Grant Smith - First woman assistant attorney general of Missouri (1944). Past president of Kappa Beta Pi international law fraternity. Delegate from Missouri to the National Women's Conference in Houston (1977).

 

Journalists/Writers

Barbara Blakemore - Former fiction editor of Redbook; Former executive editor of McCall's. Past president of Women's Media Group.

 

Lisa Colagrossi - Emmy-winning television anchor, currently with WKMG in Orlando, Fla.

 

Nan Robertson - Pulitzer Prize-winning (1983) reporter and feature writer for The New York Times (1955-96). Author of Getting Better, Inside Alcoholics Anonymous (1988) and The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times (1992).

 

Barbara Brooks Wallace - Award-winning author of children's books, including NLAPW Children's Book Award and International Youth Library "Best of the Best" for Claudia (2001) and William Allen White Children's Book Award for Peppermints in the Parlor (1983). Other books include Secret in St. Something, Ghosts in the Gallery, Sparrows in the Scullery, and The Twin in the Tavern.

 

Sports/Fitness

Susie Maxwell Berning - Golfer. Three time winner of the Women's U.S. Open.

 

Claire Waters Ferguson - First woman president of the U.S. Figure Skating Association. President during the 1994 Olympics and the Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding incident. First woman elected to the International Federation for Figure Skaters. Serves on the International Skating Union Council, the first U.S. woman to do so.

 

Debby Pfaff - Director of accounting for St. Louis Cardinals.

 

Courtney Jean Barfield Sparks - Cheerleader for Dallas Cowboys NFL football team (since 2000).