Kappa Delta was founded October 23, 1897 at State Female Normal School (now Longwood University) by Lenora Ashmore, Mary Sommerville Sparks, Julia Gardiner Tyler, and Sara Turner. These women envisioned an organization based on the ideals of friendship, fellowship and sisterly love – a legacy which lives on today.

       As of September 2009, Kappa Delta has 136 active collegiate chapters across the nation as well as 500 chartered alumnae associations and more than 200,000 members.

       The Zeta Omicron Chapter of Kappa Delta was founded at Wake Forest University on November 14, 1993. Before affiliating nationally with Kappa Delta, the group was a local society known as Lynks. In 1993, when Wake Forest required that all local societies affiliate with a national sorority, the Lynks sisterhood chose to affiliate with Kappa Delta, viewing the organization as the best representation of their own ideals.