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