Background
Putnam, Glendora Mcilwain was born on July 25, 1923 in Lugoff, South Carolina, United States. Daughter of Simon Peter McIlwain and Katherine (Stewart) McIlwain.
Putnam, Glendora Mcilwain was born on July 25, 1923 in Lugoff, South Carolina, United States. Daughter of Simon Peter McIlwain and Katherine (Stewart) McIlwain.
Student, Barber-Scotia Junior College, Concord, North Carolina, 1943. AB, Bennett College, 1945. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Bennett College, 1991.
Juris Doctor, Boston University, 1948. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Southeastern Massachusetts University, 1986.
Attorney, Yoffa & Yoffa, Boston, 1949-1951; of counsel, Veterans Bonus Commission, Boston, 1953-1958; contracts administrator, Craig Systems, Inc., Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1959-1961; private practice, G.M. Putnam, Attorney, Lawrence, Boston, Needham, Massachusetts, 1949-1988; assistant attorney general, chief Division Civil Rights and Liberties, Commonwealth Massachusetts, 1963-1969; chairman, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, 1969-1975; deputy assistant secretary Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Housing and Urban Development, Washington, 1975-1977; equal opportunity officer, Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, 1977-1988; retired, 1988.
President Young Women’s Christian Association United States of America, 1985-1991, national board directors 1973-1994, national board trustees, since 1982. Secretary Republican Town Committee, Methuen, Massachusetts, 1952-1966. Member Republican State Committee, Boston, 1956-1967.
Executive committee New England Conference National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Branches, since 1956. Trustee Young Women’s Christian Association Retirement Fund, since 1982, The Boston Conservatory, since 1972, Bennett College, since 1991. Board directors National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., since 1984, Museum Afro-American History, since 1991.
Member Massachusetts Bar Association, Massachusetts Black Lawyers' Association, Massachusetts Black Women Attorneys, Boston Bar Association, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Merrimack Valley branch), Boston University Law School Alumni Association (executive committee), Delta Sigma Theta.
Married Harold B. Putnam, Junior, November 19, 1964 (divorced April 1977).