Cosette Renee "Cosy" Simon (born June 18, 1953Marquis Who's Who, LLC (1983). ''Who's Who of American Women, 1983-1984.'' ) is an

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, business leader and philanthropist. As of June 2006, she was

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of Government and Industry Relations at

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Political career

Simon's political contribution is most notable individually as the first female

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Fort Wayne, Indiana Fort Wayne is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is west of the Ohio border and south of the Michigan border. The city's population was 263,886 as of the 2020 Censu ...

. Previously the

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of the city, she held the position of mayor for 11 days in 1985, after being appointed to replace fellow

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who was forced to resign due to statutory criminal activity in his re-election campaign. Her short term ended after Moses won re-election in a special election. Simon also served as a former budget aide to Indiana Senator

Evan Bayh Birch Evans Bayh III ( ; born December 26, 1955) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States senator from Indiana from 1999 to 2011 and the 46th governor of Indiana from 1989 to 1997. Bayh w ...

. She also served under Bayh when he was governor of the state of Indiana as a budget official, where she developed the plan to reorganize the state's accounting systems and worked to redesign Indiana's public school system.

Non-profit organizations

Simon served as executive director of the

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in Fort Wayne in the 1970s. In the late 1990s, she was the executive director of the

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References

External links

League of American Bicyclists press release
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