Famous Phis
 lpha Phi is proud of all of our distinguished alumnae. Following is a sample of Alpha Phis who have distinguished themselves in their careers and state, provincial, national or international communities.
THEATRE & PERFORMING ARTS
 Kimberly Williams-Paisley
(B-Northwestern) Actress. Movies: Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride: Part 2 and Indian Summer. Stage credits: Vagina Monologues. Television credits: Neil Simon’s Jake’s Women, Relativity, The 10th Kingdom miniseries, Hallmark commercials, and ABC®’s According to Jim.
Jeri Ryan
 B-Northwestern) Actress.Currently guest starring on Fox’s The O.C. Additional television credits include Boston Public, Star Trek: Voyager, Melrose Place and Matlock. Films include Men Cry Bullets, The Last Man and Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000.
Maile Misajon
(BD-UCLA) Singer, actress. In female pop group Eden’s Crush and on Popstars television series. Has appeared in several commercials. Albums include Popstars, featuring the group’s hit single "Get Over Yourself."
Cynthia Edwards
(EB-Butler) Stage director for the New York City Opera
BUSINESS
Andrea Wong
(F¼ – MIT) Vice-President of Programming at ABC responsible for bringing The Bachelor and other successful reality shows to ABC.
Julee Rosso
(BB-Michigan State) Founded Silver Palate gourmet food shop. Co-author of Silver Palate Cookbook, The New Basics Cookbook.
Lisa Pierozzi
(BD-UCLA) Accountant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Inc. Co-lead partner on Oscar‚ balloting team, tabulating Academy Award‚ winners for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (since 1998).
Nancy Austin
(BD-UCLA) Business consultant, author, lecturer. Internationally recognized authority on cutting-edge management. Co-author of 1989 best-seller, Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference, and author of The Assertive Woman: A New Look. Speakers Platform™ called her “the most sought after woman keynote speaker in American business.”
JOURNALISTS & WRITERS
Ann Martin
(ª-Washington) Prime time news anchor for KCBSTV, Los Angeles. Winner of three Emmy Awards®, two Golden Mike Awards and an award for best 30-minute newscast. Early in her career, she was first female to anchor the weekend news solo in Seattle, Washington.
Catherine Anaya
(BP-USC) Emmy Award®-winning television news anchor for KPHO, the CBS affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona.
Jennifer Gilbert
(B-Northwestern) Emmy Award®-winning television news anchor for WBFF-TV in Baltimore (since 1993).
Lisa Colagrossi
(BI - West Virginia) Member of the Eyewitness News Team for WABC-TV New York. Before joining Eyewitness News, Lisa was the main anchor in Orlando, Florida for six years. Lisa has received two Suncoast Regional Emmy Awards for reporting. She has also won numerous awards from the Florida Associated Press and the Society of Professional Journalists.
 Jodi Brooks
(I-Wisconsin) Reporter and co-anchor for KCNC-TV in Denver, Colorado.
Elizabeth “Liz” Sutherland Carpenter
(¿-Texas) Writer, feminist. Former reporter and public relations expert. Press secretary and staff director to Lady Bird Johnson (1963-69). A founder of the National Women's Political Caucus and of ERAmerica.
Michelle Fulcher
(B¡-Colorado) National editor of The Denver Post. Part of the Post news team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for their coverage of the Columbine High School massacre of 1999.
Nan Robertson
(B-Northwestern) Pulitzer Prize-winning (1983) reporter and feature writer for the New York Times (1955-96).
JUDGES
Dorothy Wright Nelson
(BD-UCLA) Senior judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, appointed in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter (senior judge since 1995). Former dean of The Law School at the University of Southern California.
Susan Pierson Sonderby
(BA-Illinois) First woman appointed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Illinois. Elevated to chief judge (1998).
Marilyn Aboussie
(¡¿-Midwestern State) Chief Justice, Third Court of Appeals, Texas (since 1998), the state’s first woman justice (1986). First woman district judge in Tom Green County, Texas(1983-86).
Carol Manhood Huddart
(¥-Toronto) Appointed to the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the highest court in the province (1996). Appointed to County Court (1981) and Supreme Court (1987).
Mildred Davis Ramynke
(¾-South Dakota) Retired judge serving for 27 years. First and only woman to serve as a South Dakota circuit judge. |
