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Velvalea Hortense Rodgers "Vel" Phillips (February 18, 1924 – April 17, 2018) was an American attorney, politician, jurist, and civil rights activist, who served as an alderperson and judge in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and as secretary of state of Wisconsin (1979–1983). [1]
Vel Phillips Memorial High School (formerly James Madison Memorial High School (JMM) ) or simply "VPM" is a public high school on the west side of Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was built in 1966 and is part of the Madison Metropolitan School District .
Vel Phillips, a Wisconsin civil rights icon, called out conditions in the men's and women's prisons, problems that persist today. What Vel Phillips saw when she visited Waupun, Taycheedah prisons ...
The Vel Phillips Task Force was formed in 2020, after it was brought to the attention of Michael Johnson, the CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Dane County that there was no representation of people of ...
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Jerome I. Case High School opened on Racine's west side in 1966, and two others joined in 1967: James Madison Memorial High School [9] (renamed after Wisconsin politician Vel Phillips in 2021 [10]) on Madison's far west side and George S. Parker High School on Janesville's west side. [11]
Phillips broke a long list of barriers as the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, to win a seat on the Milwaukee City Council and to become a judge ...
Vel Phillips, politician, jurist and activist; Amy Pietz, actress, known for role as Annie Spadaro in sitcom Caroline in the City; Robert B. Pinter, biomedical engineer; Paul Poberezny, founder of Experimental Aircraft Association and member of National Aviation Hall of Fame; Milton Rice Polland, Marshall Islands diplomat