Mosby was born in Nashville, Tennessee to Alvin Thomas Brown (1912 – 2007) and Mary Snelling Brown (1912 – 1989, and moved to Gary in 1943. In 1966 she married the late John Oliver Mosby, Senior To this union one daughter, Carolyn Elizabeth Mosby (1967 - ) was born.
Mosby was a 1949 graduate of Roosevelt High School in Gary, and then attended the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana and Indiana University Northwest in Gary.
Previously, Mosby had served in the Indiana House of Representatives since 1978, also representing Gary. A marriage to the late William East. Jordan Junior., produced one son, William East. Jordan, III (1952 - ). In 1951, she became the first black clerical employee at the Northern Indiana Public Service Company.
She died in Gary on January 22, 1990.
Mosby was elected to the Indiana General Assembly in 1978, and re-elected in 1980, and then the Indiana State Senate in 1982. She waste-elected in 1984, and again in 1988.
In the state Senate, she was the author of Indiana’s first Minority Business legislation (Indiana Public Law 32 – 1982) which created the Governor's Commission on Minority Business Development. She was also the author for the state"s casino gaming legislation, with Gary being the site of the first riverboat casino.
She was the first black to serve on the Indiana Legislative Council, National Conference of Insurance Legislators Executive Committee, National Conference of State Legislators, National Legislative Conference on Arson and National Black Caucus of State Legislators.
She was also the recipient of a Residence Fellowship at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Mosby was honored posthumously by Indiana Black Expo, Incorporated., renaming their humanitarian award the Senator Carolyn Brown Mosby Above & Beyond Award. The award is presented each year during the organization’s Corporate Luncheon. lieutenant has been given to actor Louis Gossett Junior., former National Basketball Association player Alan Henderson and gospel recording artist Kirk Franklin, just to name a few.
A senior citizens high rise in Gary, also bears her name, along with Indiana State Road 53 – “Broadway”, that runs from the entrance to the United States. Steel plant in Gary to Crown Point, Indiana.
NIPSCO also funds a scholarship for high school students presented by the Urban League of Northwest Indiana each year.
The two greatest commandments are to "love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with your entire mind" and to "love your neighbor as yourself."
Member Indiana House of Representatives, 1979-1982, Indiana Senate, 1982-1990. Member Northwest Indiana Forum (board directors 1985-1988), Gary Chamber of Commerce (director 1981-1983), National Council of Negro Women and Business & Professional Women, National Black Caucus of State Legislators, National Caucus of State Legislatures, Council of State Govts., Sigma Gamma Rho (honorary). Member editorial board American Institute of Management magazine, 1980-1982.
Died January, 1990.
Married William Edward Jordan, Junior, 1950. Married John Oliver Mosby, February 5, 1966 (deceased.
