Yvonne Kennedy
Yvonne Kennedy (January 8, 1945 – December 8, 2012)[1][2] was an Alabama state representative from Mobile, Alabama,[1] and a former president of Bishop State Community College. She served as national president of Delta Sigma Theta sorority from 1988-1992.
Biography
Kennedy was born to Leroy and Thelma Kennedy and attended Bishop State Community College and University of Alabama. She became president of Bishop State in 1981 and resigned from that position in 2007.[3][4] She has represented Mobile in the Alabama House of Representatives since winning a special election in 1979.[1][4]
She died on December 8, 2012 at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.[5]
References
Members of the Alabama House of Representatives |
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- Sadie T. M. Alexander, 1919–1923
- Dorothy Pelham Beckley 1923–1926
- Ethel Lemay Calimese, 1926–1929
- Anna Johnson Julian, 1929–1931
- Gladys Byram Shepperd, 1931–1933
- Jeannette Triplett Jones, 1933–1935
- Vivian Osborne Marsh, 1935–1939
- Elsie Austin, 1939–1944
- Mae Wright Downs Peck Williams, 1944–1947
- Dorothy I. Height, 1947–1956
- Dorothy P. Harrison, 1956–1958
- Jeanne L. Noble, 1958–1963
- Geraldine P. Woods, 1963–1967
- Frankie Muse Freeman, 1967–1971
- Lillian Pierce Benbow, 1971–1975
- Thelma Thomas Daley, 1975–1979
- Mona Humphries Bailey, 1979–1983
- Hortense Golden Canady, 1983–1988
- Yvonne Kennedy, 1988–1992
- Bertha M. Roddey, 1992–1996
- Marcia L. Fudge, 1996–2000
- Gwendolyn E. Boyd, 2000–2004
- Louise A. Rice, 2004–2008
- Cynthia M.A. Butler-McIntyre, 2008–present
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