Odessa Komer

Odessa Creekmore Komer (June 29, 1925 – July 15, 2004) was an American labor unionist.

Born in Kemper County, Mississippi, Komer moved to Michigan with her family, while young.

She left high school three years before graduation, to earn money for the family at the Ford Motor Company plant.

She married in 1945 and left work to raise a family, but returned to Ford as an assembler in 1953, joining the United Auto Workers union.

She also led a successful Supreme Court challenge which removed bars on women of childbearing age working in areas considered to be dangerous.