2022-2023 Soror of the Year
Chidinma “Chichi” Amadi

Chidinma “Chichi” Amadi was initiated into Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated in the spring of 2018 through the Orange County (CA) Alumnae Chapter. 

Since initiation, Chichi has Chaired the Technology Committee and has also assisted on many other committees. She has attended one Regional Conference as well as a National Convention; and is very excited to attend this year’s National Convention in Indiana.

She has always shown a deep commitment to service and that is one of the main reasons she was and is drawn to Delta. This year, she led her office’s Charity Campaign and due to its immense success, she was selected for the campaign’s National Hero Award.

Chichi is a graduate of the University of California Santa Barbara and is preparing to start a Master’s in Education in the Fall at George Washington University. 

In her personal life, Chichi enjoys traveling the world, reading cozy mysteries, and spending time with her family and friends.

Each year the Orange County (CA) Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. recognizes an outstanding soror to receive its most prestigious award, “Soror of the Year.” The Soror of the Year is a soror recognized for contributing effort, time, and energy to chapter projects, displaying leadership through committee work and/or an officer position, attending meetings regularly, and embodying enthusiasm and possessing the true Delta spirit in recognition that membership in Delta Sigma Theta is a lifetime commitment. Nominations are made at the May Chapter meeting each year.

The criteria for Soror of the Year are as follows:

♦ Contributes hours, time, and energy to chapter projects
♦ Displays leadership through committee work and/or officer position
♦ Attends meetings regularly
♦ Exhibits the nine cardinal virtues of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
♦ Embodies enthusiasm and possesses the true Delta spirit that Delta Sigma Theta is a lifetime commitment.
♦ Chapter member for the current sorority year.

The Soror of the Year is nominated for this award and voted upon by financial sorors by secret ballot. Nominations are submitted in May, voted upon in June. The announcement of Soror of the Year is made and the plaque presented at the September chapter meeting.

Past Soror of Year Recipients:

• 2021-2022 - Joan Powell

• 2020-2021 - Nicole Jones

• 2019-2020 - Jessie Harris

• 2018-2019 - Tamara Middleton Escarmant

• 2017-2018 - Danielle Watt and Wanda Florence-Calime

• 2016-2017 - Caryn Lewis-Bugg

• 2015-2016 - Ginger Logan-Cannon

• 2014-2015 - Barbara Bagneris

• 2013-2014 - Alesia Boatright-Jackson

• 2012-2013 - Jerilyn King-Brown

• 2011-2012 - Inger Kent

• 2010-2011 - Valerie Green-Amos, M.D.

• 2009-2010 - Geralund Morgan Smith

• 2008-2009 - Katrice Yokley

• 2007-2008 - Tonya Whiteside

• 2006-2007 - Pam Middleton, M.D.

• 2005-2006 - Linda Hammond, Ph.D.

• 2004-2005 - Adrienne Matthews, Pharm.D. & Jacqueline Thompson

• 2003-2004 - Sharon Middleton

• 2002-2003 - DeVera Flanigan Heard, Ed.D.

• 2001-2002 - Sylvia Turner & Terry Brown, Esq.

• 2000-2001 - Geralund Morgan Smith

• 1999-2000 - Marian P. Young

• 1998-1999 - Twyla Jenee Channel

• 1997-1998 - Iva Jewel Roberts

• 1996-1997 - Mattie Jordan Gaye

• 1995-1996 - Jennifer Hamilton, Jerilyn King-Brown, & Ruby Newman

• 1994-1995 - Joan Robinson Berry

• 1993-1994 - Terri Hill

• 1992-1993 - Martha Brantley Jackson

• 1991-1992 - Nancy Smith Justiss

• 1990-1991 - Helen Forbes

• 1989-1990 - Millicent Crenshaw

• 1988-1989 - Shirley Richards Berry

• 1987-1988 - Jennie Spencer Green, Ph.D.

• 1986-1987 - Glenda Massingale Manson

• 1985-1986 - Margaret Bell Davis, Ed.D.

• 1984-1985 - Jacqueline Thompson

• 1983-1984 - Mildred Logan Watson, Ph.D.

• 1982-1983 - Ruth Cann Hicks

• 1981-1982 - Janice Williams Macon

• 1980-1981 - Mabel Jones