The Zeta Tau chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma was one of the three sororities to participate in the first recruitment at Washington and Lee in 1989, along with Kappa Alpha Theta, and Chi Omega. Washington and Lee's fourth and fifth sorority, Pi Beta Phi and  Kappa Delta, were added in 1992 and 1997 respectively.

Kappa, like all four other sororities, has its own house located on campus. These houses opened in September of 2000 and are an integral part of sorority life at Washington and Lee.

Our campus has a very inclusive Greek system with 75% of Washington and Lee University women serving as active members of a sorority.

Kappa Kappa Gamma was founded in 1870 at Monmouth College. The founding members of Kappa Kappa Gamma were Hannah Jeannette Boyd, Mary Moore Stewart (Nelson, Field), Anna Elizabeth Willits (Pattee), Mary Louise Bennett (Boyd), Martha Louisa Stevenson (Miller), Susan Burley Walker (Vincent). As collegiate at Monmouth College, they were determined to form a Greek letter organization for women. Founders Minnie Stewart, Jeannette Boyd, and Louise Bennett first met around 1869-1870 in the Amateurs des Belles Lettres Hall, a literary society of which the women were active members when they first decided to form a new society. They determined that nothing short of a Greek letter fraternity, equal to men’s fraternities, would satisfy them. Since chapel exercises were required for all students, the founding members announced the formation of the new group by wearing their golden key pins to the Chapel service on October, 13, 1870; hanging back so that they would have to sit in front after the other students were seated.