C. Virginia Fields

C. Virginia Fields (born August 6, 1945) is the former Borough President of Manhattan, elected in 1997 and reelected in 2001. Her second term expired at the end of 2005. Clara Virginia Clark was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She received a B.A. in sociology from Knoxville College in Tennessee in 1967 and an M.S.W. from Indiana University School of Social Work in 1969. She married married Henry Fields in 1971; they divorced in 1985. Fields is well known for her activism during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in which she participated in a number of protests and marches, thus beginning her foray into social and political advocacy. In 1971, she moved to New York and became a social worker. In the late 1970s and 1980s she worked in a...