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Ollie Mae Spearman Tyler (born January 6, 1945) is the mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana. On December 27, 2014, she succeeded the term-limited Cedric Glover, her fellow Democrat, in the highest position in Shreveport municipal government. ==Education and politics== Tyler is the seventh of nine children of Leroy and Ida Haley Spearman. She was born in Blanchard northwest of Shreveport and reared on a dairy farm. She picked cotton as a girl and ironed and cleaned a residence to earn her lunch money. She graduated as valedictorian from Herndon High School, now Herndon Magnet School in Belcher, and earned a National Merit Scholarship to the Grambling State University in Grambling, west of Ruston, Louisiana, from which she received a Bachelor of Science degree. She taught at Youree Drive Middle School for twenty-three years until she was appointed as the school's first African-American and woman principal.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ollie S. Tyler: Civil Rights )〕 She obtained a Master of Education degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She completed forty-two graduate hours through Southern University at Shreveport, Louisiana State University at Shreveport, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches. No dates are given for any of her studies or institutions attended on her campaign website.〔 In addition to Shreveport, she has resided in New York City and in Houston and Killeen, Texas, dates unknown but presumably prior to her time at Youree Drive Junior High School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ollie Spearman Tyler )〕 In 1994, the Caddo Parish School Board named Tyler Director of Middle Schools. She was subsequently elevated to Deputy Superintendent. In 2000, Tyler became deputy superintendent/chief academic officer for the New Orleans city public schools, where she served for three years. In 2003, she returned to the Caddo Parish School Board in Shreveport and was appointed interim superintendent of Caddo Parish.〔 In 2004, she was a member of the education transition team for incoming governor of Louisiana Kathleen Blanco. In 2007, she was named "Louisiana Superintendent of the Year".〔 Tyler is also a former interim Louisiana state education superintendent, having served in that capacity from May 2011 to January 2012 between the appointments of Paul Pastorek and current superintendent John C. White. In the runoff election for mayor of Shreveport on December 6, 2014, Tyler handily defeated an Independent candidate, lawyer Victoria Provenza (born 1960). Tyler received 34,208 votes (63.4 percent) to Provenza's 19,781 (36.6 percent).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Runoff election results, December 6, 2014 )〕 A third candidate, African-American State Representative Patrick C. Williams, was eliminated in the primary election with 12,880 votes (21.7 percent). Tyler had led in the primary as well with 26,017 votes (43.7 percent) to Provenza's 15,155 (25.5 percent). Tyler is included among the "Ten Most Influential Women in Northwest Louisiana."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ollie Tyler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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