Norma O. Walker (born June 1928) is the former mayor of
Aurora, Colorado
Aurora (, ) is a home rule municipality located in Arapahoe, Adams, and Douglas counties, Colorado, United States. The city's population was 386,261 at the 2020 United States Census with 336,035 residing in Arapahoe County, 47,720 residing in ...
. She became the mayor of Aurora, Colorado, from 1965 to 1967. As of May 2021, Walker has been the only female mayor in that city's history. As mayor she is remembered for her work on stabilizing Aurora's water supply. Later, she went on to serve on the National Highway Safety Advisory Committee, where she served until 1969.
Born in
Las Animas, Colorado, in 1928, she is of Scandinavian descent. On November 14, 1965, she appeared as a guest on the first episode of the
panel show What's My Line
''What's My Line?'' is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, originally in black and white and later in color, with subsequent U.S. revivals. The game uses celebrity panelis ...
after one of the show's regular panel members, journalist
Dorothy Kilgallen, died six days earlier
and five days after the
Northeast blackout of 1965
The northeast blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965, affecting parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York ...
.
See also
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List of first female mayors in the United States
References
External links
Video of Walker's November 1965 appearanceon ''
What's My Line?
''What's My Line?'' is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, originally in black and white and later in color, with subsequent U.S. revivals. The game uses celebrity panelis ...
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1928 births
Living people
Mayors of Aurora, Colorado
Women mayors of places in Colorado
21st-century American women
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