Education
University of Southern California.
University of Southern California.
Warschaw was the daughter of immigrants and an alumna of the University of Southern California. Carmen Warschaw was first woman to chair the California Fair Employment Practices Commission, which was founded in 1959 to combat discrimination in housing and employment. The University of Southern California Chair in Practical Politics is also named for the Warschaws through their endowment.
(Both had graduated from University of Southern California).
Her philanthropic work extended to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where the Louis Warschaw Prostate Cancer Center bears her family"s name. She was named Woman of the Year by the Los Angeles Times in 1976.
Warschaw died on November 6, 2012, in Los Angeles at the age of 95. Her husband, prominent businessman Louis Warschaw, whom she had been married to for 63 years, died in 2000.
A champion of Democratic politics, political opponents in both parties were known to call her "The Dragon Lady.".
She was also a former member of the Democratic National Committee and chairwoman of the Southern California Democratic Party.