Barbara Lorman (born 31 July 1932) is a former member of the Wisconsin State Senate.
Lorman was born on July 31, 1932, in Madison, Wisconsin.[1] She graduated from Madison West High School before attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Lorman is married with three children and has been an active participant with Rotary International and the Boy Scouts of America.
Lorman was self-described as a "former homemaker" and president of a metals recycling company when she was elected to the Senate in a special election in 1980, with 7,453 votes, to 5,562 for Democrat Janice Redford. She was assigned to the standing committee on energy, and to the Migrant Labor Council.[2]
She was the first female senator to win re-election.[3]
She continued to be a member until 1994, when she was defeated in a three-way Republican primary election by Scott L. Fitzgerald, with 6,098 votes for Fitzgerald, 5,613 for Herbert Feil and 5,494 votes for Lorman.[4]