Edith and Grace Abbott, both Delta Gammas (University of Nebraska). Grace was the highest ranking woman in the United States government for over a decade as the head of the United States Children&#x27;s Bureau from 1921-1934. She was the first woman to be nominated for a Presidential cabinet position—Secretary of Labor. Edith was the first woman to become dean of a graduate school at an American university, the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.