Before she became the first Black woman from Ohio to be elected to Congress, Stephanie Tubbs Jones was president of the African-American Society as a Case Western Reserve University student. She went on to represent Ohio’s 11th Congressional District for five terms, during which time she championed education, voting rights and healthcare causes.
Following her sudden 2008 death from a brain aneurysm, the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Scholarship was established to support community-minded undergraduate students at her alma mater; later, students organized to have a new residence hall named in her honor.
