Ohio

Allen, Frances C.

Frances C. Allen was elected to the School Board in Akron, Ohio in 1895. A former teacher, she was one of two women elected that year to the school board. Supported by the women of her ward, Allen was elected in the first election after wo…

Carruthers, Eliza

In 1894 Ohio enacted a statute for the first time permitting women to vote in local school board elections. In the April 1895 election Mrs. Eliza Carruthers of Xenia was one of two candidates nominated by religious women with the goal of e…

Bray, Mrs. T. J.

Mrs. T. J. Bray was elected to the Board of Education in Youngstown, Ohio in 1919.

Baker, Mrs. R. A.

Mrs. R. A. Baker was an acting member of the Youngstown, Ohio Board of Education in 1919. She had served as a board member for several years.

Campbell, Mary Edith

Mary Edith Campbell was the first woman elected to the Cincinnati, Ohio board of education, 1911-? Campbell was also the first president of Woman's City Club of Greater Cincinnati. She was a charter member of the Juvenile Protective Associ…

Harrington, Carrie P.

Carrie P. Harrington was elected as a member of School Board for Warren, Ohio, in 1898. That year there were two women elected to the school board under a new school law. In the primary election four men and two women, Carrie P. Harrington…

Green, Virginia Darlington

Virginia Darlington Green was elected as a Member of School Board of the Cleveland, Ohio in 1912. She served in that office for 13 years. In 1922 Green ran as an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate from Ohio. She did not win that rac…

Inglis, Mrs. Thomas W.

In 1919, Mrs. Thomas W. Inglis was re-elected to the Youngstown Board of Education. She was one of three women serving on the board after her re-election.