Pamela Carter Explained

Pamela Carter
Order:38th
Office:Indiana Attorney General
Term Start:January 13, 1993
Term End:January 16, 1997
Governor:Evan Bayh
Predecessor:Linley E. Pearson
Successor:Jeff Modisett
Birth Name:Pamela Lynn Fanning
Birth Date:20 August 1949
Birth Place:South Haven, Michigan
Party:Democratic
Alma Mater:University of Detroit, University of Michigan, Indiana University School of Law
Profession:Attorney

Pamela Lynn Carter (née Fanning; born August 20, 1949)[1] [2] is an American lawyer, politician, and business executive. She was the first black woman to serve as a state's attorney general.[3] She served as Indiana Attorney General from 1993 to 1997.

Career

Pamela Carter attended the University of Detroit, graduating with a bachelor's degree in social work and pre-law. She later earned an M.S.W. degree from the University of Michigan and a J.D. degree from the Indiana University School of Law.[4] [5]

Carter worked as trial attorney specializing in consumer protection and joined the legal services of the United Auto Workers. Carter worked as an enforcement attorney for Indiana's secretary of state and as deputy chief of staff to Democratic Indiana Governor Evan Bayh, helping to reform health and human services in the state. Carter ran for Indiana Attorney General in 1992. Carter ran against Republican Timothy Bookwalter (a public defender from Putnam County), with Carter defeating him with fifty-two percent of the vote. Carter succeeded Linley E. Pearson to the office and served as Attorney General in the administration of Governor Bayh. Carter was succeeded to the office by Jeff Modisett.[5] [6]

She is the first African-American woman elected as a state's attorney general. Carter is also the first African American and the first woman attorney general in Indiana's history.[3] In Indiana, Carter is only the second African American elected to statewide office.[7]

In 1995, she was included on Ebony′s list of "100 Most Influential Black Americans."[8]

Carter served as the vice president of manufacturing firm Cummins, and president of its Distribution Business unit from 2008 to May 2015. She has been a member of the board of directors of Hewlett Packard Enterprise since 2015.[9]

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&q=Thurbert+Baker+1952&btnG=Search+Books#sclient=psy&hl=en&tbs=bks:1&q=Carter+was+born+Pamela+Lynn+Fanning+on+August+20%2C+1949&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=cc7216a82c53364 Contemporary Black Biography, Volume 67, p. 12.
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=f20v23TpqUQC&q=Pamela+Carter+attorney+1959 Jennifer M. York, Who's Who Among African Americans.
  3. Scott . Matthew S. . Earl G. . Graves . Earl G. Graves Sr. . March 1993 . Lawyer 1st Attorney General . Black Enterprise . 28 . 3 . 20 . Earl G. Graves Publishing Co., Inc. . New York, New York . live. https://web.archive.org/web/20181211013209/https://books.google.com/books?id=-lwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT21 . December 11, 2018 . December 10, 2018 . Beating the odds in a traditionally republican state, Pamela Carter became the nation's first elected black female attorney general by winning a brutal election campaign by a 52% to 48% margin last November . .
  4. Web site: Pamela Lynn Carter: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg . December 10, 2018 . .
  5. News: AG foes are both accused . Kokomo Tribune . Indianapolis . AP . 29 Oct 1992 . 2023-12-05 . NewspaperArchive.
  6. News: State race results mixed . Kokomo Tribune . Indianapolis . AP . 4 Nov 1992 . 2023-12-05 . NewspaperArchive.
  7. November 23, 1992 . Blacks Gained Political Ground On State And Local Levels In 1992 Election. Jet . 83 . 5 . 58–59 . Johnson Publishing Co., Inc. . Chicago, Illinois . live. https://web.archive.org/web/20181211010203/https://books.google.bs/books?id=Q8IDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA58 . December 11, 2018 . December 10, 2018 . The state of Indiana also made the history books by electing Pamela Carter as state attorney general. Carter, 43, is only the second Black to win statewide office in Indiana....Her campaign manager Chris Worden told JET: "She is the first African-American woman attorney general in the nation; the first woman to be elected attorney general in Indiana; and the first Democrat to hold the office in 28 years." . Google Books.
  8. May 1995 . 100 Most Influential Black Americans . Ebony . 50 . 7 . 130–132, 134, 138, 140 . Johnson Publishing Co., Inc. . Chicago, Illinois . December 10, 2018 .
  9. Web site: BOD . . 2023-11-02.