Barbara Wall Fraser (born June 17, 1947) is a former American Democrat politician who served in the Missouri House of Representatives.
Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, she attended Meredith College, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Washington University in St. Louis. She previously worked as a high school history teacher and served as an elected member for the school board of University City, Missouri. [1] [2]
Donald MacKay Fraser was an American politician from Minnesota who served as U.S. Representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district from 1963 to 1979 and as mayor of Minneapolis from 1980 to 1994.
The 1988 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. The 50th annual edition of the tournament began on March 17, 1988, and ended with the championship game on April 4 returning to Kansas City for the 10th time. A total of 63 games were played.
Barbara Louise Milano Keenan is a senior United States circuit judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and a former justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia.
Kellie Jolly Harper is an American basketball coach. She has served as head coach of Western Carolina, NC State, Missouri State, and Tennessee.
Carol Lee Sanchez was a Native American poet, visual artist, essayist, and teacher.
The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) is an organization of American music educators dedicated to advancing and preserving music education as part of the core curriculum of schools in the United States. Founded in 1907 as the Music Supervisors National Conference (MSNC), the organization was known from 1934 to 1998 as the Music Educators National Conference. From 1998 to 2011 it was known as "MENC: The National Association for Music Education." On September 1, 2011, the organization changed its acronym from MENC to NAfME. On March 8, 2012, the organization's name legally became National Association for Music Education, using the acronym "NAfME". It has approximately 45,000 members, and NAfME's headquarters are located in Herndon, Virginia
John T. Lamping is an American politician and securities broker from the state of Missouri. A Republican, he served in the Missouri Senate, representing the 24th district from 2011 to 2015.
Gloria Blackwell, also known as Gloria Rackley, was an African-American civil rights activist and educator. She was at the center of the Civil Rights Movement in Orangeburg, South Carolina during the 1960s, attracting some national attention and a visit by Dr. Martin Luther King of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Her activities were widely covered by the local press.
Carolyn Ray Boone Mahoney is an American mathematician who served as president of Lincoln University of Missouri. Her research interests include combinatorics, graph theory, and matroids.
Marilyn Lea Miller was an American librarian and educator and president of the American Library Association from 1992 to 1993.
Barbara Thoman Curtis, RN was an American nurse and activist. She received several awards for her work in nursing and healthcare, including induction into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 2014.
Mary Fraser Wesselhoeft was an American graphic artist, watercolorist, and stained-glass artist.
Ashton Wheeler Clemmons is a former Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives. Clemmons represented the 57th district from 2019 to 2024. She also served as the Deputy Minority Leader from 2023 to 2024.
Anita Earls is an American civil rights attorney who has served as an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court since 2019. She previously served as the executive director of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, as well as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice during the Clinton administration. On November 6, 2018, Earls defeated Republican incumbent Justice Barbara Jackson in a three-candidate election to win a seat on the state's highest court.
Gale Adcock is a family nurse practitioner and American politician who has served in the North Carolina Senate representing the 16th district since 2023. Adcock previously served in the North Carolina House of Representatives representing the 41st district from 2015 to 2023. She also served as Deputy House Minority leader for one term.
Barbara Anne Washington is an American politician and attorney who currently serves as a member of the Missouri Senate from the 9th district. Elected to the Senate in 2020, she was previously a member of the Missouri House of Representatives for the 23rd district from 2018 to 2021.
Margaret Rose Sanford was an American civic leader, teacher, and philanthropist who, as the wife of Terry Sanford, served as First Lady of North Carolina from 1961 to 1965. Prior to entering public life, she worked as a teacher in North Carolina and Kentucky. As first lady, Sanford hosted the first annual North Carolina Symphony Ball in 1961, established a library of North Carolinian books at the North Carolina Executive Mansion, and planted a rose garden on the mansion's grounds. She was the first governor's wife to decorate the Governor's Western Residence in Asheville. Sanford sent her children to the first racially integrated public elementary school in Raleigh, North Carolina, while the family lived in the executive mansion. She served on the board of the Methodist Home for Children, the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Stagville Plantation Restoration Board, and East Carolina University. She was also a member of the Education Commission of the States and the Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women in the Services. While Sanford's husband served as president of Duke University, she was appointed by Governor Jim Hunt to serve on a delegation of university faculty and administrators to China in 1975.
Barbara Phifer is a former United Methodist pastor who started her term as a Democratic member of the Missouri House of Representatives, representing the state's 90th House district, in January 2021. She was the Democratic candidate in the 2024 Missouri Secretary of State election.
Carolyn Conant Van Blarcom was an American nurse and midwife reformer. In 1913, she became the first American nurse to become a licensed midwife. She made pioneering contributions in preventing childhood blindness. Van Blarcom also played instrumental role in establishing a school for midwives, and extensively contributed in reforming some of the important health institutions in America including the Maryland State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis.
Kimberly Furnish is an American diplomat. She has served as Chargé d'affaires at the The Bahamas since June 2024.