List of Sigma Theta Tau members

Sigma Theta Tau is an international honor society for nursing.^[1] It was established in at Indiana University in Indianapolis, Indiana on October 4, 1922.^[1][2] Following is a list of some of the notable members of Sigma Theta Tau.

• Mark Lombardi (Honorary, 2023), president of Maryville University^[3][4]
• Diana Natalicio (Honorary, 1999), 10th president of the University of Texas at El Paso^[3]
• Donna Shalala (Honorary, 1993), president of The New School and U.S. House of Representatives^[3]
• Claribel Wheeler, superintendent of the Washington University School of Nursing and Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing^[5]

• Lydia Aziato, vice chancellor of University of Health and Allied Sciences
• Margaret Callahan, health sciences provost at Loyola University Chicago
• Rosemary Donley, dean of the school of nursing and executive vice president of the Catholic University of America^[6]
• Address Mauakowa Malata, vice-chancellor at the Malawi University of Science and Technology^[7]

• Mary G. Boland, associate dean at the Rutgers University College of Nursing and dean of the Nancy Atmospera-Walsh School of Nursing at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa^[8]
• Katharine Jane Densford, director of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, assistant dean of the Illinois Training School for Nurses^[9]
• Laura N. Gitlin (Honorary, 2017), dean of the Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions^[3]
• Paula Milone-Nuzzo (Delta Mu), dean of nursing at Pennsylvania State University^[10]
• Elly Nurachmah, dean of the nursing faculty of the University of Indonesia
• Majda Pajnkihar, dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Maribor
• Rozella M. Schlotfeldt, dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University^[11]
• Carolyn Ladd Widmer, first dean of the University of Connecticut School of Nursing^[12]

• Tina Alster, clinical professor of dermatology at Georgetown University Medical Center
• Marion J. Ball (Honorary 2003), Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington^[3]
• Ivo D. Dinov (Honorary, 2021), mathematical statistician, data scientist, computational neuroscientist, and professor at the University of Michigan^[3]
• Wafaa El-Sadr (Honorary, 2015), professor and director of ICAP at Columbia University^[3]
• Paul Farmer (Honorary, 2007), medical anthropologist and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School^[3]
• Nelly Garzón Alarcónn (Upsilon Nu), professor of nursing in postgraduate programs at the National University of Colombia^[13]
• Adejoke Ayoola, academic and nursing researcher at Calvin University
• June Clark (Upsilon Xi), professor emeritus of community nursing, at Swansea University^[14]
• Ivo D. Dinov (honorary), mathematical statistician, data scientist, computational neuroscientist, and professor at the University of Michigan^[3]
• Carol Fowler Durham (Alpha Alpha, 1982) professor and director of the Education-Innovation-Simulation Learning Environment (EISLE) for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing^[15]
• Lulu Hassenplug (Honorary, 1967), founder of the UCLA School of Nursing^[3][16]
• Nellie X. Hawkinson (Honorary, 1941), led nursing education programs at Western Reserve University and the University of Chicago^[3]
• Eleanor Krohn Herrmann, nursing educator at the University of Connecticut^[17]
• Vicki Hertzberg (Honorary, 2021), professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing of Emory University^[3]
• Susan Hickman (Honorary, 2015), geropsychologist and professor at the Indiana University School of Nursing^[3]
• Debra Jackson, professor of nursing at the Susan Wakil School of Nursing at the University of Sydney^[18]
• Doris Honig Merritt (Honorary, 1987), assistant dean of medical research at Indiana University School of Medicine^[3]
• Gita Mishra (Honorary, 2017), professor of life course epidemiology at the University of Queensland^[3]
• Daniel Oerther (Honorary, 2011), professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology^[3]
• Mitchell T. Rabkin (Honorary, 1989), professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and CEO emeritus at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center^[3]
• Susan Mokotoff Reverby (Honorary, 1995), Wellesley College professor who wrote about the Tuskegee syphilis experiment^[3]
• Richard Ricciardi, professor at George Washington University^[19]
• Loredana Sasso, professor of nursing at the University of Genoa^[20]
• Helen Turner Watson, associate professor at the UConn School of Nursing
• Karen Fraser Wyche (Honorary, 2017) clinical psychologist and research professor at the George Washington University School of Nursing^[3]
• May Wykle, Marvin E. and Ruth Durr Denekas Endowed Chair at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing of Case Western Reserve University^[21]

• Maggie Kuhn (Honorary, 1987), activist known for founding the Gray Panthers movement^[3]

• William E. Conway Jr. (Honorary, 2021), co-executive chairman of the board and founder of the Carlyle Group^[3]
• David A. Hamburg (Honorary, 1995), president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York^[3]
• Lucie Baines Johnson (Honorary, 1985), businesswoman and philanthropist^[3]

• Donald Berwick (Honorary, 2007), 13th Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services^[3]
• Jo Eleanor Elliott, head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service Division of Nursing; academic^[22]
• Vernice Ferguson, nursing department head at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and nurse executive with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs^[23]
• Marilyn R. Goldwater (Honorary, 1981), Maryland House of Delegates^[3]
• Daniel Inouye (Honorary, 1985), Dean of the United States Senate^[3]
• Pearl McIver (Honorary, 1954), chief of the Division of Public Health Nursing, United States Public Health Service^[3]
• Jessie M. Scott (Honorary, 1969), Assistant Surgeon General and directed the nursing division of the United States Public Health Service^[3]

• Ellis Avery (Honorary, posthumous), writer
• Suzanne Gordon (Honorary, 1999), journalist and author who writes about healthcare delivery and health care systems^[3]

• Doris Howell (Honorary, 1989), physician who specialized in pediatric oncology, known as the "mother of hospice" for her pioneering work in palliative care^[3]
• Gladys McGarey (Honorary, 2011), holistic physician and medical activist^[3]
• John P. McGovern (Honorary, 1989), allergist who established the McGovern Allergy Clinic and the Texas Allergy Research Foundation^[3]

• Richard Carmona (Honorary, 2005), vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and 17th Surgeon General of the United States^[3]
• Mari K. Eder (Honorary, 2025), major general of the United States Army^[3]
• Diane Carlson Evans (Honorary, 2005), nurse in the United States Army during the Vietnam War and the founder of the Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation, which established the Vietnam Women's Memorial^[3]
• Kathleen L. Martin, Deputy Surgeon General of the Navy/Vice Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and 19th Director of the Navy Nurse Corps

• Ruth Lubic (Alpha Zeta), one of the leaders of the nurse-midwifery movement in the United States^[24]
• Florence Nightingale (Honorary posthumous, 1997), founder of modern nursing^[3]
• Undine Sams (Beta Tau), nurse^[25]
• Ruth Sleeper (Honorary, 1954), director of nursing service and the school of nursing at Massachusetts General Hospital^[26][3]

• Monique Bégin (Honorary, 1999), Minister of Health and Welfare Canada, Minister of National Revenue, and Member of Parliament^[3]
• Rachael Cabral-Guevara, member of the Wisconsin Senate and Wisconsin State Assembly^[27]
• Patrick H. DeLeon (Honorary, 1993), psychologist, former chief of staff for United States Senator Daniel Inouye^[3]
• Adelaide C. Eckardt, member of the Maryland Senate and Maryland House of Delegates^[28]
• Bethany Hall-Long, governor of Delaware and 26th lieutenant governor of Delaware^[4]
• Princess Muna Al Hussein (Honorary, 2009), princess consort of Jordan^[3]
• Ruth Molly Lematia (Alpha), Member of Parliament of the Republic of Uganda
• Norma Matheson (Honorary, 1993), First Lady of Utah^[3]
• Carolyn McCarthy (Honorary, 1999), U.S. House of Representatives^[3]
• Donna Rozar, Wisconsin State Assembly
• Louis Stokes (Honorary, 2005), United States House of Representatives^[3]

• Roberta Bondar (Honorary, 1995), Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space^[3]

• List of Sigma Theta Tau chapters