Name |
Original chapter |
Notability |
References |
Cecilia Nabrit Adkins |
Honorary |
first to lead the Publisher's Association |
|
Vanita Banks |
Epsilon Rho |
President of the National Bar Association |
|
Mary L. Bell |
Honorary |
first African-American to own and operate a radio station in the city of Detroit; president and chairperson of Bell Broadcasting Corporation |
|
Roslyn Brock |
Alpha Eta |
Chairman of the NAACP |
|
Mecole Brown |
Kappa Mu |
Vice President of Employment and Diversity, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. |
|
Jessie Bryant Mosley |
Honorary |
founder of the Smith-Robertson Museum and Cultural Center |
|
Margaret Burroughs |
Honorary |
founder of DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago, Illinois |
|
Margaret Busby |
Honorary |
first African book publisher in the United Kingdom; writer and broadcaster; inducted into the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II |
|
Margaret Bush Wilson |
Chi |
chaired the NAACP's national board of directors in 1975 |
|
Louise Butler |
Gamma Epsilon |
global marketing director, personal care division, Avon |
|
Emma C. Chappell |
Honorary |
first African-American woman to form a commercial bank in the US |
|
Barbara Ciara |
Upsilon Omicron Omega |
president of the National Association of Black Journalists; Managing Editor and primary anchor at WTKR NewsChannel 3 in Norfolk, Virginia; youngest woman and first African-American to become news director at a commercial television station in the Southwest (KMSB-TV in Tucson, Arizona) |
|
Deborah S. Coleman |
Honorary |
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for National Urban League |
|
Marva Collins |
Alpha Pi |
founder of Westside Preparatory School in Chicago |
|
Leathe Colvert Hemachandra |
Tau Omega |
taught in New York City schools for 28 years |
|
Jocelyn Cooper |
Tau Omega |
president of Hitco Music Publishing; first and only African-American woman to run a major publishing company, Midnight Songs; former head of A&R at Universal Records; Senior Vice President/Special Assistant to the Chairman (Doug Morris) of the Universal Music Group; advisor, Afropunk Festival |
|
Suzanne de Passe |
Honorary |
only African-American to be nominated for an Academy Award for writing; CEO of de Passe Entertainment |
|
Terri Dean |
Alpha Sigma |
Senior Vice President of Global Communications, Verizon |
|
Lia Epperson |
Lambda Upsilon |
Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law; civil rights activist; former Director of Education Litigation and Policy, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund |
|
Bettiann Gueno Gardner |
Honorary |
first African-American woman to be part-owner of a major National Basketball Association team, the Chicago Bulls |
|
Patricia P. Gibson |
Honorary |
businesswoman, recipient of the William F. Nabors Marketer of the Year Award |
|
Linda Gill |
Xi Omega |
general manager, founder of Kimani Press |
|
LaTonya Goffney |
Unknown |
first Black superintendent of Aldine Independent School District |
|
Hazel Harper-Johns |
Alpha |
first woman president of the National Dental Association (1997) |
|
Marjorie Fields Harris |
unknown |
principal consultant with the Fields Harris Group, LLC; Executive Director, National Action Network |
|
Alice Huffman |
unknown |
president of the California State Conference of the NAACP |
|
Catherine L. Hughes |
Honorary |
founder and owner of Radio One |
|
Jane Edna Hunter |
Honorary |
nurse who founded Phyllis Wheatley Association & House in Cleveland |
|
Gwendolyn Smith Iloani |
Epsilon Omicron Omega |
former Managing Director, Aetna; Chair and CEO, Smith Whiley and Co. Venture Capital Investment Firm |
|
June Jackson Christmas |
Honorary |
founder of the Harlem Rehabilitation Center in Harlem, New York |
|
Jewell Jackson McCabe |
Honorary |
founder of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women |
|
Wilhelmina Lawrence |
Honorary |
president of the A.M.E. Church Women's Missionary Society |
|
Lucille McAllister Scott |
unknown |
co-owner of Atlanta Daily World |
|
Depelsha McGruder |
Alpha |
Senior Vice-President, Business Operations, MTV |
|
Enolia McMillan |
Honorary |
first female national president of NAACP |
|
Lorraine H. Morton |
Gamma Lambda |
first African-American and longest-serving mayor of Evanston, Illinois |
|
Cleo Parker Robinson |
Honorary |
artistic director of Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theater |
|
Hilda Pinnix-Ragland |
Alpha Phi |
Vice President of Northern Regions Energy Delivery Services, Progress Energy; first woman and first African American to chair the State Board of Community Colleges in North Carolina |
|
Ernesta Procope |
Honorary |
president of E. G. Bowman Company, Incorporated |
|
Rupert F. Richardson |
Zeta Psi Omega |
NAACP president from 1992 to 1995 |
|
Deborah Stewart-Parker |
Honorary |
president and CEO/Consultant of International Business Solutions; first woman to lead an assembly plant at Ford Motor Company |
|
Carol Thompson Cole |
Honorary |
president and CEO of Venture Philanthropy Partners |
|
Jessie L. Vann |
Honorary |
publisher of Pittsburgh Courier |
|
Addie D. Waites-Hunton |
Honorary |
a founder of the National Association of Colored Women |
|
Faye Wattleton |
Theta |
president of Center for the Advancement of Women |
|
Delores D. Wharton |
Honorary |
president of the Fund for Corporate Initiatives; on the board of directors for Phillips Petroleum, Gannett, and Kellogg |
|
Debra Saunders-White |
Theta Kappa |
first female Chancellor of North Carolina Central University |
|
Carol H. Williams |
Honorary |
founder of the Carol H. Williams Advertising Agency |
|
Frederica Wilson |
Pi |
Founder and Executive Director of 5000 Role Models of Excellence, Incorporated, State Senator, District 33 |
|
Jacquline Woodard |
Rho Mu Omega |
CEO, Performance-based Systems, Inc. |
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