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Bella Landsrud [aka Bella Landsrud Sherven] was elected as County Superintendent of Schools for Worth County, Iowa. She was elected in 1912 and was re-elected in 1914. Landsrud was the first woman superintendent in Worth County and the first woman public official in the county.