Betty Boyd 02/22/2008

Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1924; died January 6, 2011 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She began appearing on television in 1955 and was considered a journalism pioneer due to the lack of women in broadcasting at the time. She was a Tulsa TV personality until 1980 when she became the Director of Information Services for Tulsa County Area Vocational-Technical School District. She served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1991 to 2000, becoming the first great-grandmother to do so. She was inducted in the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.