Significant Sigmas

  • Significant Sigma Kappas

     

    Rhea Seddon - mission specialist for NASA. Her first flight into space was aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1985. She took her Sigma Kappa badge on her flight into space.

    Margaret Chase Smith - The first U.S. woman senator and the first woman to sit in both houses of Congress.

    Theresa Grentz - Womens' basketball coach at the University of Illinois.

    Sarah Weddington - Attorney and spokesperson on public issues and leadership.

    Sharon Resultan - Meteorologist reporter for The Weather Channel.

    Fay Burnett - First nutritionist for Weight Watchers International.

    Anna Harper - inducted into the California Women Athletes Hall of Fame. She was a Wimbledon tennis champion in 1931 and has won other numerous state and national tennis championships.

    Susan Johne - Kentucky State senator, 1994.

    Betty Jo Peacock Hay - president of the National Mental Health Association in 1986.

    Sarah Weddington - 1972 she became the first woman elected from Austin to be a member of the Texas House of Representatives and later assistant to President Jimmy Carter.

    Ashley Henderson Huff - a First Lieutenant in the United States Army was the first known sorority casualty in the current confict in Iraq .