Some of our famous sorority sisters
of
SGR
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Soror Victoria Rowell Actress/Foster Care Activist
Soror Leighann Lord Comedian
Soror Maysa Jazz Artist
SororMother Love Actress, Radio Personality Television Host of Forgive or Forget
Soror Anna Maria Horsford Actress Television Director,Good News
Soror Brenda Joysmith Artist
Soror Cynthia Horner Magazine Editor
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
Arts/Entertainment
Soror Vanessa Bell Armstrong- Gospel Recording Artist
Soror Brenda Pressley - Actress
Soror Chizu Shindo Suzuki - Japanese Artist and Writer
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 Rosa Page Welch- Famed Mezzo Soprano & Lecturer, "Ambassador of Goodwill" in interracial relations
Soror Hattie McDaniels- First African- American Actress to win an Oscar- Best Supporting Actress in "Gone with the Wind"
Governmental/legal
Soror Ruth Whitehead Whaley- First African-American woman to actively practice law in the U.S.
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 Judge Joyce Williams Warren- The First African- American Judge in Arkansas
Soror L. Marion Poe- First African-American woman to be admitted to the bar in the Southern U.S.
Soror 'Lindy' Corrine Claiborne Boggs - First female U.S. representative from Louisiana & 1st Woman to Chair National Convention of a major American Political Party
Soror Corrine Brown- U.S. representative Florida
Soror Gwendolyn Cherry- Former Florida Congresswoman
Magazines/Authors
Soror Jocelyn Brown -National Sales Director ESSENCE Magazine
Soror Priscilla Williams White- Author of "The Children- What Shall We Tell Them About God?"
Soror Lillian Beard, MD - Former Columnist Good Houskeeping Magazine
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 April Sinclair- Author of "Coffee Will Make You Black" and "Ain't Goin' Be The Same Fool Twice"
Business.
Soror Lorraine E. Hale, Ph.D. Executive director Hale House Center, Inc. New York
Soror Betrice Powell- Senior Director Mary Kay Cosmetics
Events.
Soror Alice Hille Jackson- Creative Artist, Co-Creater/Producer of Hal Jackson's Miss Talented Teen Pageant
Reasearch/Foundations
Soror Dr. Alma Illery- humanitarian and Founder of George Washington Carver Commemoration. Through her efforts, Congress issued a Carver Stamp in 1944.
SororMarie Lafontant - Founder and President of Haitian Research Center
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 Erika R. Ragland- Committee on Labor and Human Responses on Capitol Hill.
Soror Pat Tobin - Public Relations Specialist, Principle, Pat Tobin & Associates
Soror Mary Washington- First African-American CPA