International President; Chair, Board of Directors
Elsie Cooke-Holmes
In February 2022, Elsie Cooke-Holmes was installed as National President and Chair, Board of Directors of
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated for the 2021-2023 biennium after serving as National First Vice President, elected in 2021, and National Secretary from 2017-2021. She joined the Sorority in 1976, in the Epsilon Kappa Chapter at the University of Memphis.
While in college, she was elected National Second Vice President and served as a member of the National Board
of Directors and member, National Scholarship and Standards Committee representing the Sorority’s collegiate members.
She is the first National Second Vice President to serve as National President. Elsie has held numerous leadership positions on Delta’s local, regional and national levels, in addition to her most recent positions. She has served as Eastern Regional Director, Eastern Region member of the National Scholarship and Standards Committee, Co-Chair of the National Leadership Academy, Co-Co-Chair of the National Human Resources Committee, Chair of the Regional Restructuring Task Force, member of the National Program Planning and Development Committee and the National Information and Communications Committee, chapter president of the Westchester Alumnae Chapter and member of the Advisor’s Council of the Pi Lambda Chapter. Elsie is a currently a member of the Dallas Alumnae Chapter where she chaired the Strategic Planning Committee.