Annette Strauss

Starting as a volunteer fund-raiser for the United Jewish Appeal, Annette Greenfield Strauss went on to raise more than twenty million dollars for various institutions in a career that included her election as the first female and the first Jewish mayor of Dallas, Texas.

Institution: Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation, Austin, Texas

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Annette Strauss." (Viewed on September 26, 2023) <https://jwa.org/media/strauss-annette-still-image>.

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