Willie Stevenson Glanton

{{short description|American politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name =Willie Stevenson Glanton

| image =

| caption =

| office2 = Member of the Iowa House of Representatives from the 37th district

| term_start2 = 1965

| term_end2 = 1966

| predecessor2 = Howard Reppert

| successor2 = Vernon N. Bennett

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|3|19}}

| birth_place =Hot Springs, Arkansas, U.S.

| death_date ={{Death date and age|2017|7|6|1922|3|19}}

| death_place =Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.

| spouse=Luther T. Glanton, Jr.

| website= [https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator/legislatorAllYears?personID=1253 Glaton's website]

| party = Democratic

| residence =

}}

Willie Stevenson Glanton (March 19, 1922 – July 6, 2017) was an American lawyer and politician in the state of Iowa. She was a Democrat.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M94DAAAAMBAJ&dq=melvin+mcnairy&pg=RA1-PA195|title=Ebony|date=April 1965|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company}}

Glanton was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas and attended Tennessee State University and Robert H. Terrell Law School. She moved to Iowa in 1951 and in 1953, became the second African American woman to be admitted to the Iowa Bar.

In 1962, she toured Africa and southeast Asia under a cultural exchange for the U.S. state department.

She was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1964, becoming the first African American woman to sit in that body. She resigned in 1966 to work as a lawyer with the United States Small Business Administration.{{cite web|title=Willie Stevenson Glanton|url=http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/migrated/women/margaretbrent/10/glanton.authcheckdam.pdf|website=americanbar.org|access-date=25 July 2015}}[http://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator/legislatorAllYears?personID=1253 Iowa Legislators Past and Resent-Willie Stevenson Glanton]

She was married to Judge Luther T. Glanton, Jr. and had one son, Luther T., III.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9cEqAAAAMAAJ|title=Iowa Official Register|access-date=25 July 2015|last1=Secretary Of State|first1=Iowa|year=1965}} In 1986, she was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=http://www.women.iowa.gov/about_women/HOF/iafame-glanton.html|title=Iowa Commission on the Status of Women|author=|date=|work=iowa.gov|access-date=25 July 2015}} In 2010, she was named one of the ten most influential black Iowans by The Des Moines Register.{{cite news|title=Ten most influential black Iowans|url=http://archive.desmoinesregister.com/article/99999999/NEWS08/50113019/Ten-most-influential-black-Iowans|access-date=25 July 2015|work=The Des Moines Register|date=13 January 2005}} She died in Des Moines on July 6, 2017.[http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article160068394.html Iowa's first black female legislator dies at 95]