Cora Ellen Garner Norman

Background

Norman, Cora Ellen Garner Daughter of Robert Everett and Jewel Melissa (Beasley) Garner.

Education

Graduate Institute of Education Management and Institute Lifelong Management, Harvard University, 1978, 79, University London, 1985.

Career

Teacher, Holly Springs High School (Mississippi), 1964-1965. Science teacher Lafayette County High School, Oxford, Mississippi, 1965-1966. Administrative assistant to director continuing education University Mississippi, 1966-1969.

Executive director Mississippi Humanities Council, Jackson, since 1972. Chairman Mississippi Political Women's Caucus, 1978. President Mississippi Women's Cabinet Public Affairs.

Active Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund for University Women, Mississippi State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

Religion

People need to grow in relationship with God, whose love constantly prompts to transform people.

Politics

The state should not use its authority to promote particular religious beliefs, nor should it require prayer or worship in the public schools. However, the state should leave students free to practice their own religious convictions.

Views

All Christians can seek to create a way of life deliberately designed to overcome evil with good and to promote justice for all.

Membership

Member League of Women Voters (chapter president 1971), American Association of University Women (state president 1974-1976, vice president Educational Foundation 1985-1989, College Faculty award 1963, Woman of Achievement award, Mississippi division, 1987).

Connections

Married William Harvey Norman, May 28, 1946. Children– Robert Henry, Judith Ellen Norman Bratton.

Father:

Robert Everett Garner

Mother:

Jewel Melissa (Beasley) Garner

Spouse:

William Harvey Norman

child:

Robert Henry Norman

child:

Judith Ellen Norman Bratton Norman