No: 62
Date: 11/1/1995
Name: Brenda Council
The caricature shows Council as a juggler, because she has been a woman who has many balls in the air at one time - in hobbies, in community service and as an attorney. At that time she was a counsel for Union Pacific Railroad. An active community leader and member of the Omaha City Council, Council would go on to run for the office of mayor in 1997, narrowly defeated by Hal Daub after a tight race. Her hobby as a basketball referee is shown by the referee's shirt and a whistle she wears. She was featured on the cover of Ebony magazine. Also shown are some of her fellow City Council members. She was a guest star in the Omaha Press Club Show, "The Wizards of Oz." She sang a duet with Betty Abbott, "I Remember It Well," lamenting the fact that both women had come within a hair's breadth of becoming the first woman Omaha mayor. Back to Top