Prominent Sorors
All Sigma Women are Dynamic Women, but here are some of the more popular among us (in no certain order):

Soror Vivian White Marbury
Our Last Living Founder
(d. 2000)

Soror Victoria Rowell
Actress/Foster Care Activist

Soror Brenda Joysmith
ArtistSoror

Soror Mother Love 
Actress, Radio & TV Personality

Soror Anna Maria Horsford
Actress & Director

Soror Maysa
Jazz Artist

Soror "Lindy" Corinne Boggs
1st female U.S. representative from Louisiana 
1st Woman to Chair National Convention of a major American Political Party

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

Soror Cheryl Broussard
Financial Advisor & Author

Soror Lee Chamberlin
Actress

Soror Tonya Lee Williams
Actress

Soror Venessa Bell Armstrong
Gospel Recording Artist/ Singer

Soror Corrine Brown
U.S. Representative Florida

Soror Cynthia Horner
Magazine Editor, Right On Magazine

Soror Dr. Lillian M. Beard, MD
Former Columnist 
Good Houskeeping Magazine 

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

Soror Leighann Lord
 Comedian
 

  • Soror Jocelyn Brown -National Sales Director ESSENCE Magazine
  • Soror Ellia English - Actress, co-star on the "Jamie Fox Show"
  • Soror Gwendolyn Cherry- Former Florida Congresswoman
  • Soror Alice Childress- Author of "A Hero Ain't Nothing But A Sandwich"
  • 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 Alice Hille Jackson- Creative Artist, Co-Creater/Producer of Hal Jackson's Miss Talented Teen Pageant
  • Soror Dr. Alma Illery- humanitarian and Founder of George Washington Carver Commemoration. Through her efforts, Congress issued a Carver Stamp in 1944.
  • 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 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 Brenda Pressley - Actress
  • Soror Erika R. Ragland- Committee on Labor and Human Responses on Capitol Hill.
  • 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, Principle, Pat Tobin & Associates
  • 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 Judge Joyce Williams Warren- The First African- American Judge in Arkansas
  • Soror Ruth Russell Williams- Artist and Entreprenuer, 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 the sorority's current project of the same name.
  • Soror Merri Dee - Community Affairs Director WGN-TV, Chicago
  • Soror Rev. Barbara Jean Allen - Assistant Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago
  • Soror Deacon Shirley Bims-Ellis - Administrator: Center for African Bible Studies, IL
  • Soror Nancy E. McCormick - Executive Assistant to U.S. Representative and NAACP President Kweisi Mfume
  • Soror Ruth V. Sims - Administrator: National Projects Director of the NAACP
  • Soror Marilyn McCoo - singer and recording artist
  • Soror Chastity Washington - comedian and dancer
  • Soror Jetta Jones - also known as Ms. Dupre, comedian and radio personality
  • Soror Linda McClure - model, actress, and niece to founder Soror Cubena McClure

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