Tree Snyder Paine

Tree Paine built her career across some of the music industry’s most prominent labels and agencies, beginning with roles at Mute Records, Maverick Records and Interscope Records—where she worked with artists including No Doubt, Snoop Dogg and Nine Inch Nails—before launching her own marketing company with Bonnie Raitt as her first client. She later joined the Academy of Country Music to oversee media and marketing and went on to serve as Senior Vice President of Publicity at Warner Music Nashville. In 2014, she founded Premium PR, a Nashville-based public relations firm, and took on Taylor Swift as her sole client.

In that role, Tree has become widely regarded as one of the most influential publicists in contemporary entertainment. She has guided Swift’s communications through some of the most closely watched moments in modern pop culture, managing media strategy and public messaging with a reputation for discretion and long-term brand stewardship.

Tree was initiated in 1990.

Kaleigh Gilchrist

Kaleigh is a multi-time Olympian competing in women’s water polo for Team USA. She was part of the gold medal winning U.S. Women’s Olympic water polo team at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, contributing six goals, and won gold at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She also competed and scored a total of five goals as part of the women’s water polo team at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris that finished fourth overall.

Kaleigh was initiated in 2010.

Lara Merriken

In 2000, Lara Merriken was 32, recently divorced and without a job when she decided to make energy bars by mixing cherries, dates and almonds in her Cuisinart. Eventually, she perfected the recipe and launched her company: LÄRABAR. After just two years, the company was generating millions in revenue. In 2008, she sold to General Mills, one of the world’s largest food manufacturers. She stayed involved with the brand, helping guide its continued growth as LÄRABAR became one of the leading energy bar brands in the U.S.

Lara was initiated in 1988.

Ann Marie “Ree” Smith Drummond

Ree Drummond is best known as The Pioneer Woman, a multimedia brand she built from a personal blog documenting her life living on a cattle ranch outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma. What began as an online journal grew into one of the most widely followed food and lifestyle destinations online—in February 2010, Forbes ranked her No. 22 on its Top 25 Web Celebrities list.

Ree’s reach has extended well beyond the screen. Drummond has authored multiple bestselling books under The Pioneer Woman brand and launched a line of kitchen and home products sold nationally. Since 2011, she has starred in her own long-running cooking show on Food Network, “The Pioneer Woman,” which remains one of the network’s most popular programs. In 2016, she opened The Pioneer Woman Mercantile, a restaurant, bakery and retail destination in downtown Pawhuska that has since become a draw for visitors from across North America.

Ree was initiated in 1988.