Civic Leader
In 1975, three Democratic city commissioners (Mayor John Kenneth Snyder, Finance and Utilities Commissioner Arnold Jack Rosenthal, and Streets and Parks Commissioner Malcolm P. Hebert) named her to a vacancy on the Alexandria Civil Service Commission. This body hears grievances from city employees who wish to challenge dismissals, demotions, or changes in job duties and descriptions. She served on the review board of the Alexandria Zoning Commission from 1979-1984.
On the state level, she was a member of the Commission on Indian Affairs, Commission on Salaries for State Judges, and the Election Code Commission.
She was a social worker for the American Red Cross in New Orleans between 1945-1946. She taught exceptional children for a time in New Orleans. She did script writing for the Tulane University educational television channel. After she relocated to Alexandria, she was a member of the St. Frances Cabrini Hospital Auxiliary and the Rapides Parish Medical Society. She was a former member of Our Lady of Prompt Succor Altar Society and served on the Human Rights Committee of St. Mary's Training School for Retarded Children in Alexandria.
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