16 Facts About Brenda Council

Brenda J Council was born on 1955 and is a politician and a disbarred labor lawyer from North Omaha, Nebraska.

Brenda Council represented the 11th District in the Nebraska State Legislature from 2009 to 2013, succeeding longtime state senator Ernie Chambers, who was term-limited.

In 2012, Council lost a reelection bid to her former opponent, who was able to run for the seat again after sitting out one term.

Brenda Council started her legal career in 1977 with the National Labor Relations Board in Kansas City.

Brenda Council has served on the Omaha School Board and the Omaha City Brenda Council, and ran for mayor in 1994 and 1997, losing both elections by slim margins.

Brenda Council was formerly western regional president of the National Caucus of Black School Board Members.

Brenda Council was featured three times in Ebony Magazine due to her prominence as an Omaha leader, and was a permanent roundtable member of the Omaha KETV television Sunday morning talk show, Kaleidoscope.

In February 2008, Brenda Council filed to run for the seat in the Nebraska State Legislature being vacated by Senator Ernie Chambers, who had been a state senator for 38 years but was barred from seeking reelection due to a new term limits law.

Brenda Council ran for reelection in 2012 but lost to Chambers, who was able to run for the legislature again after sitting out one four-year term.

Brenda Council attended Omaha Central High School, then the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, graduating in 1974.

Brenda Council received a Juris Doctor law degree from Creighton University School of Law in 1977.

Brenda Council was selected as one of the RAD Women of Omaha and has been featured in three editions of Ebony magazine.

On September 12,2012, Brenda Council pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges that she misused campaign cash at casinos and filed false reports concealing that.

Brenda Council withdrew $63,000 at casinos over several years and deposited $36,000 in cash.

Brenda Council was charged in federal court with wire fraud and pleaded guilty, receiving three years' probation along with fines and assessments of $600.

On September 12,2014, the Nebraska Supreme Court disbarred Brenda Council for misusing campaign funds.