Cynthia W Willard-Lewis was born on 1952 and is an American politician in Louisiana.
11 Facts About Cynthia Willard-Lewis
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Cynthia Willard-Lewis was elected from Senate District 2 in a special election held on October 2,2010, to replace Ann Duplessis, who resigned to take a position in the administration of Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
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Cynthia Willard-Lewis was instead defeated by another Democrat, the incumbent senator, Jean-Paul Morrell, who polled 11,280 votes to Willard-Lewis' 9,911 votes.
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Cynthia Willard-Lewis represented District 100 in the Louisiana House from 1993 to 2000, when she was elected to the New Orleans City Council.
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Cynthia Willard-Lewis left the council in 2010 under term limits.
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Cynthia Willard-Lewis was succeeded in the House by Pat Swilling, a former National Football League linebacker.
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In 2007, when Oliver Thomas was eliminated from an at-large seat on the New Orleans City Council because of conviction for bribery, Cynthia Willard-Lewis attempted to win the at-large seat but was defeated by then-former Councilwoman Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson in a special election which received national attention because the result changed the racial majority of the council.
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Cynthia Willard-Lewis is the daughter of Dr Elliot Willard and his wife, Jane.
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Cynthia Willard-Lewis graduated from historically black Xavier University of Louisiana, where she was a member of Zeta Phi Beta sorority.
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Cynthia Willard-Lewis is a former first runner-up in the Black Miss America Pageant.
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Cynthia Willard-Lewis participates in a number of community organizations, including the NAACP.