Famous Sorors

Although founded by school teachers, for school teachers; Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated has grown into an organization that encompasses women from all educational backgrounds and professions.

Soror Rev. Barbara Jean Allen - Assistant Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago 

Soror Vanessa Bell Armstrong - Gospel Recording Artist 

Soror Rev. Willie T. Barrow - Director of Operations Operation PUSH/Rainbow Coalition 

Soror Lillian Beard, MD - Former Columnist Good Housekeeping Magazine 

Soror Corrine Claiborne 'Lindy' Boggs - First female U.S. representative from Louisiana & 1st Woman to Chair National Convention of a major American Political Party 

Soror Cheryl Broussard - Financial Advisor & Author of "The Black Woman's Guide to Financial Independence" 

Soror Corrine Brown - U.S. Representative Florida 

Soror Jocelyn Brown - National Sales Director of ESSENCE Magazine 

Soror Lee Chamberlin - Actress 

Soror Gwendolyn Cherry - Former Florida Congresswoman 

Soror Alice Childress - Author of "A Hero Ain't Nothing But A Sandwich" 

Soror Merri Dee - Community affairs Director WGN television news 

Soror Deacon Shirley Bims-Ellis - Administrator, Center for African Bible Studies, Illinois 

Soror Ella English – Actress “Jamie Foxx Show”

Soror Ann Fudge - President, Maxwell House Division, Kraft Foods 

Soror Cathy Hughes - CEO, Radio One 

Soror Emily D. Gunter - Motivational speaker, Author of "Superlearning 2000: The new Technologies of Self Empowerment" 

Soror Lorraine E. Hale, Ph.D. - Executive director Hale House Center, Inc. New York 

Soror Cynthia Horner - Magazine Editor of "Right On" Magazine 

Soror Anna Maria Horsford - Actress Amen, Friday, Wayans Bros.; Television Director of Good News 

Soror Dr. Alma Illery - humanitarian and Founder of George Washington Carver Commemoration. Through her efforts, Congress issued a Carver Stamp in 1944.  Soror Alice Hille Jackson - Creative Artist, Co-Creator/Producer of Hal Jackson's Miss Talented Teen Pageant 

Soror Jedda Jones – Radio personality (Ms. Dupree) 

Soror Brenda Joysmith - Artist Soror Marie Lafontant - Founder and President of Haitian Research Center 

Soror Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke - a lawyer in Washington, D.C.; Writer and self-publisher of three books of poetry: MY SOUL SPEAKS; I AM MY SISTA'S KEEPER and BABY, I GOT IT BAD FOR YOU BLUES 

Soror Leighann Lord - Comedian 

Soror Mother Love - Radio Personality, Author, and ex-Host of Forgive or Forget 

Soror Maysa - Jazz Artist 

Soror Nancy E. McCormick - Executive Assistant to U.S. Representative and NAACP President Kweisi Mfume 

Soror Hattie McDaniels - First African-American Actress to win an Oscar- Best Supporting Actress in Gone with the Wind 

Soror Lana Moorer – Hip Hop Artist (MC Lyte)

Soror Charlotte Ottley - Public Relations Specialist, CEO C. Ottley Strategies 

Soror L. Marion Poe - First African-American woman to be admitted to the bar in the Southern U.S. 

Soror Betrice Powell - Senior Director Mary Kay Cosmetics 

Soror Kelly Price –R&B, Gospel Recording Artist 

Soror Brenda Pressley - Actress It Could Happen To You, City Hall 

Soror Erika R. Ragland - Member, Committee on Labor and Human Responses on Capitol Hill 

Soror Victoria Rowell - Actress “The Young and the Restless”, “Diagnosis Murder" and Foster Care Activist 

Soror Ruth V. Sims - Administrator, National Projects Director of the NAACP 

Soror April Sinclair - Author of "Coffee Will Make You Black" and "Ain't Goin' Be the Same Fool Twice" 

Soror Chizu Shindo Suzuki - Japanese Artist and Writer 

Soror Pat Tobin - Public Relations Specialist, Principal, Pat Tobin & Associates 

Soror Judge Joyce Williams Warren - The First African-American Judge in Arkansas 

Soror Mary Washington - First African-American CPA 

Soror Rosa Page Welch - Famed Mezzo Soprano & Lecturer, "Ambassador of Goodwill" in interracial relations 

Soror Ruth Whitehead Whaley - First African-American woman to actively practice law in the U.S. 

Soror Priscilla Williams White - Author of "The Children - What Shall We Tell Them About God?" 

Soror Ruth Russell Williams - Artist and Entrepreneur, Her artwork is sold at JCPenney, Nordstroms & Micheals nationally and internationally. Her works include The Baptism, Family Reunion, The Graduation, Old Time Revival, & Kitchen Beautician. She created the promotional artwork, BigBookBag for our sorority's current project of the same name. 

Soror Tonya Lee Williams - Actress, The Young and the Restless