Willie Stevenson Glanton (March 19, 1922 – July 6, 2017) was an American lawyer and politician in the state of Iowa.
[1] Glanton was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas and attended Tennessee State University and Robert H. Terrell Law School.
In 1962, she toured Africa and southeast Asia under a cultural exchange for the U.S. state department.
[2] She was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1964, becoming the first African American woman to sit in that body.
She resigned in 1966 to work as a lawyer with the United States Small Business Administration.