Lottie Gertrude Stevenson was a Zimbabwean ambassador and politician.
19 Facts About Trudy Stevenson
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Trudy Stevenson was a member of parliament for Harare North in the Parliament of Zimbabwe.
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Trudy Stevenson was a founding member of the Movement for Democratic Change of Zimbabwe, the first white woman to be voted into the MDC National Executive and, during her tenure, the country's only white female Member of Parliament.
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Trudy Stevenson was born in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States, and attended school at Wymondham College in England from 1955 to 1962.
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Trudy Stevenson obtained a BA degree from the University of Reading and a Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of Zimbabwe.
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Trudy Stevenson lived in Uganda during the 1970s, before fleeing from the regime of Idi Amin.
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Trudy Stevenson moved to Zimbabwe in 1980, and became a Zimbabwean citizen in 1990.
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Trudy Stevenson held the position of Member of Parliament for Harare North from 2000 to 2008.
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Trudy Stevenson served as MDC's national secretary for Policy and Research for both the original MDC and in a smaller faction of the MDC.
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Trudy Stevenson was the chairperson of the Combined Harare Residents Association, and led the organisation's Supreme Court request for municipal elections in the city following the dissolution of the Harare City Council by the Ministry for Local Government due to corruption.
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Trudy Stevenson joined a breakaway faction led by former student activist Arthur Mutambara.
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Trudy Stevenson suffered panga wounds to the back of her neck and head, broken arm and wrist bones and a fractured cheek bone.
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However, while recovering in the hospital, Trudy Stevenson positively identified her assailants as members of the MDC-T faction, led by Tsvangirai.
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In 2009, Trudy Stevenson was appointed as Zimbabwean Ambassador to Senegal and The Gambia, and was responsible for re-opening Zimbabwe's embassy in Senegal.
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Trudy Stevenson held the post even after the fall of the inclusive government in 2013.
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Trudy Stevenson was found dead by her chauffeur at her Dakar, Senegal residence on 24 August 2018.
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Trudy Stevenson was the daughter of First Lieutenant Gilbert Hasbrouck Bevier Jr.
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Trudy Stevenson enlisted in the United States Army Air Force in May 1942, while a freshman at Rutgers University, and served during World War II.
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Trudy Stevenson was a descendant of seven of the New Paltz, New York patentees, or founders, including Louis DuBois.