# List of Phi Eta Sigma members

Phi Eta Sigma is an American freshman honor society that was founded at the University of Illinois on March 22, 1923. Following is a list of some of its notable members.

## Academia

* Nancy Bentley, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania
* Anthony E. Clark, Sinologist, historian and writer
* William Dudley Geer, dean of the School of Business at Samford University
* Leigh Gerdine, president of Webster University and founder of the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
* Paul G. Halpern, naval historian at Florida State University
* George Hilton Jones III, historian and college professor
* Kristen Kroll, stem cell biologist and Professor of Developmental Biology at Washington University School of Medicine
* David M. Lampton, director of China studies emeritus at the Johns Hopkins University
* Ben Lawton, president of the University of Wisconsin's board of regents, physician, thoracic surgeon, and healthcare-reformer
* Charles G. Overberger, chair of chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and the University of Michigan
* Mercedes Richards, astronomy and astrophysics professor
* Floyd Van Nest Schultz, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee and Purdue University
* Seymour I. Schwartz, professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Rochester
* Arthur Cutts Willard, president of the University of Illinois system
* Martin King Whyte, sociology professor emeritus at Harvard University

## Astronauts

* Joseph P. Allen, astronaut
* James P. Bagian, physician, astronaut and engineer
* Charles E. Brady Jr., astronaut, physician and Navy captain
* Dale Gardner, astronaut
* J. Wayne Littles, eighth director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
* Steven R. Nagel, test pilot, astronaut and engineer
* Robert L. Stewart, NASA astronaut who was a brigadier general of the United States Army
* David Wolf, astronaut, medical doctor, and electrical engineer

## Entertainment

* Allison Kreiger, model

## Law

* James G. Exum, Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and member of the North Carolina House of Representatives
* Gabriel Marques, attorney, fiscal officer of Nassau County, New York, and an adjunct professor at Molloy College
* William C. Mims, Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Attorney General of Virginia, Virginia Senate, and Virginia House of Delegates
* Hardy Myers, Attorney General of Oregon and Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives
* Wilkes C. Robinson, Senior Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims
* Aaron Twerski, professor at Brooklyn Law School and dean and professor of tort law at Hofstra University School of Law

## Military

* John F. Bolt, U.S. naval aviator and flying ace
* A. Ernest Fitzgerald, member of the Senior Executive Service in the United States Air Force, and a prominent U.S. government whistleblower
* Clyde Kenneth Harris, one of the "Monuments Men" during World War II
* Robert L. Stewart, NASA astronaut who was a brigadier general of the United States Army

## Politics

* Rob Bryan, North Carolina Senate and North Carolina House of Representatives
* James G. Exum, Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and member of the North Carolina House of Representatives
* William C. Mims, Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Attorney General of Virginia, Virginia Senate, and Virginia House of Delegates
* Hardy Myers, Attorney General of Oregon and Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives
* Kenneth D. Schisler, Maryland House of Delegates and chair of the Maryland Public Service Commission
* William F. Winter, Governor of Mississippi, Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi, Treasurer of Mississippi, and Mississippi House of Representatives

## Sports

* Geary Eppley, University of Maryland athletic director
* Lance Parker, professional soccer player
* Mike Petri, rugby union player and coach

## Other

* Robert B. Patterson, founder of the first Citizens' Councils, a white supremacist organization