Carol Schwartz

Carol Schwartz (born January 20, 1944, in Greenville, Mississippi) is a politician from Washington, D.C., who served as an at-large member on the Council of the District of Columbia from 1985 to 1989 and again from 1997 to 2009. After being born in Greenville, Mississippi, her family lived for brief periods in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, before settling down in Midland, Texas, where she spent nearly all of her childhood. Growing up in Midland, Schwartz experienced anti-Semitism as a child, where she was one of very few Jewish people in the city. Schwartz graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1965 with a degree in elementary and special education. After graduation, she worked as a special education...