Roxanne Qualls is an American politician who served as the 66th mayor of Cincinnati,Ohio. She also served a two-year term on the Cincinnati City Council prior to her service as mayor,having been elected in 1991. On August 8,2007,the Charter Committee announced her appointment to fill the unexpired term of council member Jim Tarbell. Qualls was elected to a two-year term on Cincinnati City Council in November 2007,and again in 2009 and 2011. She served as Vice Mayor,the chair of the Budget and Finance Committee,chair of the Livable Communities Committee and chair of the Subcommittee on Major Transportation and Infrastructure Projects.
Arcadia University is a private university in Glenside,Pennsylvania. The university enrolls approximately 3,200 undergraduate,master's,and doctoral students. The 94-acre Glenside campus features Grey Towers Castle,a National Historic Landmark;the university also includes a campus in Christiana,Del.,as well as several centers around the world.
Mary Fallin is an American politician who served as the 27th governor of Oklahoma from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,she was elected in 2010 and reelected in 2014. She is the first and so far only woman to be elected governor of Oklahoma. She was the first woman to represent Oklahoma in Congress since Alice Mary Robertson left office in 1923.
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) is an agency of the government of Oklahoma responsible for the construction and maintenance of the state's transportation infrastructure. Under the leadership of the Oklahoma secretary of transportation and ODOT executive director,the department maintains public infrastructure that includes highways and state-owned railroads and administers programs for county roads,city streets,public transit,passenger rail,waterways and active transportation. Along with the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority,the department is the primary infrastructure construction and maintenance agency of the State.
Kathryn Louise Taylor was elected the 38th mayor of Tulsa,Oklahoma on April 4,2006,in the city's largest voter turnout for a mayoral election. She defeated Republican incumbent Mayor Bill Lafortune to become Tulsa's second female mayor,after Susan Savage first filled the post in 1992. Taylor is married to Bill Lobeck,CEO of Vanguard Automotive Group. Taylor served as Oklahoma Secretary of Commerce and Tourism in Governor Brad Henry's administration from 2003 to 2006. She resigned from that post in order to run for Mayor.
Jane Anne Jayroe-Gamble is an American broadcaster,author,public official and former beauty queen from Laverne,Oklahoma,who was Miss Oklahoma in 1966 and Miss America in 1967. Jayroe worked as an anchor in TV news in Oklahoma City and Dallas-Fort Worth broadcast media markets for 16 years. Later,Governor of Oklahoma Frank Keating appointed her to serve as his Secretary of Tourism and Recreation in his Cabinet. She served in that position from 1999 until 2003. Jayroe has authored numerous articles and books and was spokesman for The Presbyterian Health Foundation.
Margaret Ann "Peggy" Hamburg is an American physician and public health administrator,who is serving as the chair of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and co-chair of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP). She served as the 21st Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from May 2009 to April 2015.
Susan Winchester was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives to represent District 47 in 1998 where she served until 2008. She was elected Whip for the Republican Caucus after her first term,and in 2005 became the first woman to serve as Speaker Pro Tempore,the second highest position in the House.
The 2014 Oklahoma gubernatorial election was held on November 4,2014,to elect the governor of Oklahoma. Incumbent Republican Governor Mary Fallin was re-elected over Democratic state representative Joe Dorman.
Rodger Allen Randle is a retired American politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. He served twice as President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate and was a member of the Oklahoma Senate from 1972 to 1988. He also served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1970-1972 and as mayor of Tulsa,Oklahoma from 1988-1992.
Angela Z. Monson is an American politician from Oklahoma who served in the Oklahoma State House of Representatives,representing District 99 from 1990–1993,as well as the Oklahoma Senate,representing District 48 from 1993–2005. In 2003,she became the first African American woman assistant majority floor leader in the Oklahoma legislature. Monson defeated incumbent Kirk Humphreys,a former Oklahoma City mayor,for the school board chairman's position in 2009,serving until 2013.
Penny Baldwin Williams was an American Democratic Party politician from Oklahoma. Williams served as a legislator in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1981 to 1988,representing District 70. She later was elected to the Oklahoma Senate,representing District 33,from 1989 to 2004. Senator Williams authored important bills on education during her time in the legislature,including the historic education reform act. Williams also authored a series of bills to strengthen math and science,and the bill creating the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics. A supporter of the arts,Williams influenced art education in public schools,and was instrumental in the creation of the Art in Public Places Act.
Della Cheryl Warrior is the first and only woman to date to serve as the chairperson and chief executive officer for the Otoe-Missouria Tribe. She later served at the president of the Institute of American Indian Arts,finding a permanent home for the institution as well as helping to raise over one hundred million dollars for the institution over a twelve-year period. Warrior was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 2007.
Jacqulyn "Jackie" Longacre is the former executive director of Planned Parenthood in Tulsa,Oklahoma. In the eighteen years she was the director of the Tulsa campus,they grew from serving 1,600 patients to serving over 10,000 patients in a single year and were awarded the Fairchild Award,the highest award available for being a quality service affiliate. Longacre played a vital part in establishing Reproductive Services in Tulsa as well as Tulsa County Perinatal Coalition. In 1993,she was inducted in the Oklahoma Women’s Hall of Fame.
Pat Woodrum is the former executive director of the Tulsa City-County Library System,a position she served in for 32 years. Since retiring from the library system in 2008,Woodrum has served as the executive director of the Oklahoma Centennial Botanical Garden in Tulsa. Among numerous awards,Woodrum was inducted in the Oklahoma Women’s Hall of Fame in 1993.
Elizabeth Odilile Ofili is a Nigerian-American physician and cardiology researcher. She was the first woman to become president of the Association of Black Cardiologists.
The 2016 Tulsa mayoral election was held on June 28,2016 to elect the mayor of Tulsa,Oklahoma. Incumbent mayor Dewey F. Bartlett Jr. lost re-election outright to city councilor G. T. Bynum,eliminating the possibility of a runoff.
Clarence Isaiah Pontius (1892–1981),more commonly identified as Clarence I. Pontius,C. I. Pontius or Cy Pontius,was an Oklahoma businessman,banker and university president. Pontius was born in Butler County,Pennsylvania. He then enrolled in Ohio State University,graduating in 1915 with a degree in agriculture. Following graduation,he built a career in business and finance in Ohio. He relocated to Tulsa,Oklahoma,where he continued his career in finance. In 1935,the trustees of Tulsa University,then struggling with financial problems caused by the Great Depression,recruited Pontius to serve as president of the school. He remained in that position until he retired in 1958 and continued to serve as chancellor until 1964.
