Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. National Presidents

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

1st National President

Grand President 1st national convention

Creation of Grand Chapter

G. Dorothy Pelham Beckley

2nd National President 1923-1926

New nomenclature system for naming chapters was authorized

Regional conferences as a permanent institution approved

Established Omega Omega as the Memorial Chapter

Ethel Lamay Calimese

3rd National President

Biennial Conventions approved by delegate vote

Administration abolished duties of the Grand President & Grand Vice Presidents to allow regions to elect their own regional directors

Anna Johnson Julian

4th National President

Grand Chapter incorporated under D.C. laws (1930)

National Pan-Hellenic Council formed (Dr. Julian served as treasurer).

Gladys Byram Shepperd

5th National President

National Boards as component of organizational structure created

Jeanette Triplett Jones

6th National President

National Headquarters established

Vivian Osborne Marsh

7th National President 1935-1939

Actively involved in the Civil Rights Movement on anti-lynching bill

Helen Elsie Austin

8th National President 1939-1944

Created the Office of Undergraduate Coordinator (later known as National Second Vice President)

Mae Wright Downs Peck Williams

9th National President 1944-1947

Focus on voting and equal rights for women and minorities and fair employment practices

Purchase of war bonds and ambulances

Emphasized education

Dorothy Irene Height

10th National President

First Executive Director Hired (Patricia Roberts Harris)

Delta Five-Point Project (Now known as programmatic thrust)

Dorothy Penman Harrison

11th National President

Burned the Mortgage on the First National Headquarters

Jeanne L. Noble

12th National President

Social Action Commission established

She served on national commissions through appointments by Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford

Geraldine Pittman Woods

13th National President 1963-1967

Delta Teen Lift established

Delta Research and Educational Foundation (DREF) (1967)

Frankie Muse Freeman, Esq.

14th National President 1967-1971

First Woman appointed to the US Commission on Civil Rights by President Lyndon B. Johnson

Lillian Pierce Benbow

15th National President 1971-1975

Established the National Commission on Arts & Letters

Implemented the Delta Right to Read Project

Thelma Thomas Daley

16th National President 1975-1979

Commissioned the Sculpture, Fortitude, on Howard University Campus

Mona Humphries Bailey

17th National President 1979-1983

Implementation of the Capital Fund Drive

Campaign to "Burn the Mortgage" on newly expanded National Headquarters

Hortense Golden Canadyi

18th National President 1983-1988

Established the Delta Leadership Academy

Published the first Delta Doctrine

Yvonne Kennedy

19th National President 1988-1992

Launched "Every Delta in the Delta House" DelShare Program

Designated the 1988-1990 biennium as "The Reclamation Era"

Bertha Maxwell Roddey

20th National President 1992-1996

Established a partnership with Habitat for Humanity to build 22 affordable homes

Focused on increasing the number of registered voters through partnership with NAACP

Marcia L. Fudge

21st National President 1996-2000

Established the Dr. Betty Shabazz Delta Academy as a signature Delta program

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Boyd

22nd National President 2000-2004

Application of technology for chapter operations, headquarter operation, communication and registration at conventions and conferences -SEE Program

Louise Allen Rice

23rd National President 2004-2008

Developed corporate governance documents and corporate management tools for the Executive Board of the Sorority

Appointed collegiate members to serve on all National Committees/Commissions

Established GEMS Youth Initiative program

Cynthia M.A. Butler McIntyre

24th National President 2008-2013

Established:

-Charitable Partnerships Task Force-Project 13

-EMBODI (Empowering Males to Build Opportunities for - Developing Independence)

-IMPACT Day of Service

-Collegiate Transition Taskforce (CTT)

-The DST Elementary School in Ch'rette, Haiti

-An educator from Louisiana. A leader with a servant's heart

Dr. Paulette C. Walker

25th National President 2013-2017

Presented the Hazing Prevention Summit

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the American Cancer Society

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Mental Health (NIHM) and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Beverly Evans Smith

26th National President 2017-Present