Carol Shwartz
The Honorable Carol Schwartz completed her fourth term as an elected member of the Council of the District of Columbia in January 2009, having first served from 1985-1989 and then from 1997-2009. She had also previously served two terms on the Board of Education starting in 1974. Carol has been elected President of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and was the first woman President of the Metropolitan Police Boys and Girls Clubs. Carol was also a Board member of the Whitman-Walker Clinic, the Jewish Council for the Aging, St. John’s Community Services, the Humane Rescue Alliance, the National Council of the National Museum of the American Indian, and a few others.
Presently Carol is on the Board of the Hattie M. Strong Foundation and Studio Theatre. She has received the Whitney M. Young Award from the Washington Area Urban League, the Human Rights Campaign National Capital Area Leadership Award, and the Three Decades of Leadership Award from the Washington Metropolitan Area Council of Governments, as well as many more. Born in Mississippi and raised in Midland, Texas, she graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in special education and then moved to DC in January of 1966. She has three adult children, all of whom graduated from DC Public Schools. Carol published her autobiography in late 2017 entitled Quite a Life!: From Defeat to Defeat ... and Back.