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Lila May Banks Cockrell (née le 19 janvier 1922 à Fort Worth et morte le 29 août 2019 à San Antonio) est une personnalité politique américaine. Biographie. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle sert dans la WAVES de la marine américaine.
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After serving for a decade on the city council, including her 1969 service as the city's first woman mayor Pro Tem, Cockrell was elected in 1975 to the first of four two-year terms as Mayor of San Antonio. At the time of her inauguration, San Antonio's population gave her the status of the mayor over the largest American city being governed by a wo...
After retiring from political office, Cockrell served on many municipal commissions and civic boards.In 2013, she retired as president of the San Antonio Parks Foundation, a position she had held since 1998. On May 29, 2019 Cockrell was forbidden to vote in the 2019 San Antonio mayoral election because she lacked the required identification under T...
The Lila Cockrell Theatre, named in her honor, is part of the Henry B. González Convention Center in Downtown San Antonio. Also, a meeting room at the Convention Center directly below the Theatre i...She was inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Famein 1984.She received an honorary doctorate from St. Mary's University in May 2017 during the commencement ceremony for the class of 2017.Interviews with Lila Cockrell, July 25, 1984, July 15, 1994, April 9, 1997, University of Texas at San Antonio: Institute of Texan Cultures: Oral History Collections, UA 15.01, University of Texas...Lila Cockrell at Find a Grave1 sept. 2019 · Former Mayor Lila Cockrell’s memoir Love Deeper Than a River: My Life in San Antonio. About that story: In 1974, Mayor Cockrell was escorting Mexico’s President Luis Echeverría back to the Hilton Palacio del Rio from the Convention Center, where the city was hosting a Mexico trade fair.
29 août 2019 · Former San Antonio mayor Lila Cockrell has died, according to a statement from current Mayor Ron Nirenberg. She was 97. Cockrell was first elected in 1975 and served three terms, before...
In 1975, Lila Cockrell stepped onto the pages of history—twice—when she became the first woman elected as mayor of San Antonio—which at the time made San Antonio the largest U.S. city to be governed by a woman.
29 août 2019 · Lila May Banks Cockrell, San Antonio’s first female mayor who served four terms and helped usher in a city government that was more representative of its population, died Thursday morning. She was 97.
29 août 2019 · Lila Cockrell, San Antonio’s first woman mayor and the first of her gender to lead one of America’s 10 largest cities, died Thursday.
