15 Facts About Wynona Lipman

Evelyn Wynona Lipman was an American Democratic Party politician who represented the 29th Legislative District in the New Jersey Senate.

Evelyn Wynona Lipman Moore was born in LaGrange, Georgia in 1923, the daughter of John Wesley Moore, Sr.

Wynona Lipman's parents met as students at Clark College in Atlanta, and her father owned a pharmacy and worked as a bricklayer.

Wynona Lipman finished high school at the age of sixteen and went on to attend Talladega College, where she was a French major.

Wynona Lipman received a Rockefeller Foundation grant to pursue a Ph.

In Paris she met Matthew Wynona Lipman, who was pursuing a Ph.

Matthew Lipman found work teaching at Columbia, and Wynona joined him in New York City, teaching at Elisabeth Irwin High School in Greenwich Village.

Wynona Lipman later became an associate professor at Essex County College.

Wynona Lipman became active in local Democratic politics in Montclair, serving as Democratic committeeperson and later as town chairman.

Wynona Lipman won a seat on the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders in 1968 and was selected as president in 1971.

Wynona Lipman did not seek re-election to a second term as a Freeholder, but instead ran for the New Jersey State Senate.

Wynona Lipman was successful, defeating incumbent Republican Senator Milton Waldor by a vote of 85,644 to 84,736.

Wynona Lipman was often the only woman serving in the Senate and was nicknamed "Steel Magnolia".

Wynona Lipman was survived by her daughter, Karyne Anne Lipman.

Wynona Lipman was inducted into New Jersey's "Women's Hall of Fame" in 1998.