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Jane Macon: [111] First female to serve as the City Attorney for San Antonio, Texas (1977-1983) [Bexar County, Texas] Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez: [112] First openly LGBT (female) judge in Bexar County, Texas (2019) Kimberly Burley: [113] First female and African American to preside in the Bexar County Children’s Court (2021)
Margaret Blake Kelly (born September 17, 1935) [1] is an American former politician and accountant from Missouri. [2] Kelly served as the State Auditor of Missouri from 1984 to 1999. She is the first woman to hold statewide office in Missouri. Kelly is a Republican.
Margaret Kelly may refer to: Margaret Kelly (civil servant), acting director of the United States Mint by 1911; Margaret B. Kelly (born 1935), American accountant and politician from Missouri; Margaret Kelly (dancer) (1910–2004), Irish dancer and the founder of the Bluebell Girls dance troupe; Margaret Kelly (swimmer) (born 1956), British swimmer
Margaret Mary Jane Healy Murphy, SHSp (May 4, 1833 - August 25, 1907) was an Irish-American Catholic religious sister and early civil rights activist. She known for founding the Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate, the first order of sisters in the state of Texas, as well as the first free private school for African Americans in San Antonio, Texas.
The following is a list of mayors of San Antonio, Texas.. San Antonio operates under a council–manager form of government. [1] [2] While the mayor presides over meetings of the City Council and is paid $3,000 more than other members of the Council, the mayor does not wield executive authority or veto power.
Margaret West was born in San Antonio, Texas, the daughter of George Washington West (1879–1956), the man who in 1913 built George West, Texas, and Robbie Bedell (1880–1959). West became a vaudeville performer and sang Western songs dressed as a cowgirl. [ 1 ]
John Herndon James – Chief Justice of the 4th Court of Civil Appeals in San Antonio [30] C. Francis Jenkins – demonstrated the first practical motion picture projector [31] [32] Walter Jessup – former head of the Carnegie Corporation and president of the University of Iowa [33] Henry Underwood Johnson – US Congressman from Indiana [34]
Margaret Derden Philpott was born in Hillsboro, Texas on June 30, 1899 [1] [2] to William Bledsoe and Annie Margaret Derden Philpott. Bellamy was raised in San Antonio, Texas until she was six years old, and the family later moved to Brownwood, Texas, where her father worked as an English professor at Texas A&M.