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Joanne H. Alter
Joanne H. Alter (1927 – November 9, 2008) was an American activist, politician, and the first woman to break the gender barrier in Chicago area politics.
==Biography==
Alter was born to a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Glencoe, Illinois.〔〔(Chicago Sun Times: "Joanne Alter Obituary" ) November 11, 2008〕 Her mother Celia K. Hammerman,〔(Chicago Tribune: "Celia K. Hammerman, 91, Philanthropist, Matriarch" By Kenan Heise ) March 22, 1997〕 was an immigrant who fled pogroms in Czarist Russia〔 and a was founder of North Shore chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.〔 Her father, Sol Hammerman, worked for J.K. Industries in Chicago, a company founded by her grandfather, which he turned it into one of the nation's largest children's clothing manufacturers at the time. She has one sister, Enid Hammerman who married American diplomat William R. Rivkin.〔(Chicago Tribune: "Robert Rivkin takes on challenge of Toyota inquest with Transportation Department - Chicago attorney’s family ties to national politics run deep" By Melissa Harris ) February 28, 2010〕〔 She attended New Trier High School and graduated from Mount Holyoke College where she met Eleanor Roosevelt while serving as a student campus representative. After school, she toured war-torn Europe alone.〔 In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed her as a delegate to the United Nations Conference on the Status of Women held in Accra, Ghana. Upon her return, she founded the Illinois Women's Political Caucus〔 and when she exposed that there were no women candidates on the ballot in Cook County, Illinois, then mayor Richard J. Daley invited her to run for office.〔(Jewish Women's Archive: "Joanne Alter" ) retrieved March 25, 2015〕 In 1972, earning a million votes as the Elected Commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, she became the first woman to win a countywide election.〔 She was reelected twice.〔 She also unsuccessfully ran for Lieutenant Governor in 1976 and Cook County Clerk in 1990.〔 She served two terms on the Democratic National Committee.〔 The Alters remained active in politics and fundraising hosting many politicians and contributors including Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Oprah Winfrey, John F. Kennedy Jr., Dan Rather, Kevin Costner, Adlai Stevenson III, Mayor Harold Washington, Judge Abner Mikva, Sens. Paul Simon and Dick Durbin, and Rep. Rahm Emanuel.〔 In 2003, the Alters were an early supporter of Barack Obama, hosting a fundraiser for his 2004 Senate campaign.〔 After she retired from politics, she co-founded WITS (Working In The Schools), a tutoring and mentoring program serving children in Chicago public schools.〔
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