Dale McCormick

Dale McCormick (born January 17, 1947 in New York City ) is an American entrepreneur and politician who was Maine State Treasurer from 1997 to 2004 . She has been a member of Augusta's City Council since 2013 .

Life

Dale McCormick was born in New York City in 1947, the daughter of Kenneth Dale McCormick, editor-in-chief, and Elizabeth Tibbetts McCormick, a schoolteacher. Her parents were Scottish immigrants. Her parents divorced, and her mother married the author Dale Kramer. The family moved to Sigourney , Iowa in 1955, and McCormick graduated from Sigourney High School in 1965. She then studied at the University of Iowa and received her bachelor's degree in 1970 .

After graduating from college, she lived in Iowa City and was involved in the anti-war movement , the women's movement, and the lesbian and gay movement. In 1971 she trained as a carpenter with the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and was the first journeywoman in the United States. She wrote a manual on carpentry for women, published in 1977, and ran her own business, McCormick Construction & Carpentry, in Iowa City from 1977 to 1980.

In the early 1980s, Dale McCormick moved to Maine and started Women Unlimited, a training program for women specifically in commerce and engineering. Until 1995 she was the managing director of Women Unlimited. McCormick has been politically active since the 1980s. In addition to the lesbian and gay movement, she was also involved in the areas of health and welfare as well as housing. She founded the Maine Lesbian / Gay Political Alliance and was its president.

As a member of the Democratic Party , she was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1984 and 1988. In 1990 she was elected to the Maine Senate and in 1996 she was elected Treasurer of Maine. She held the office with multiple by-elections until 2004 and was Maine's first female treasurer. In 2005 she was appointed director of the Maine State Housing Authority by Governor John Baldacci . She resigned from the position in 2012.

She has been a member of Augusta's City Council since 2013.

Dale McCormick has three children with partner Betsy Sweet.

Awards

• Maryann Hartman Award (1997)
• Crystal Vision Award (2006)
• Member of the Maine Women Hall of Fame (2007)
• Catalyst for Change Award (2008)

Works

• Against the Grain: A Carpentry Manual for Women , Iowa City Women's Press, 1977
• Housemending: Home Repair for the Rest of Us , Dutton, 1987, ISBN 978-0525482581

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Staff Report: Dale McCormick bio. In: centralmaine.com. December 4, 2011, accessed October 31, 2016 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} UI Collection Guides -Dale McCormick papers, 1958-1997. In: uiowa.edu. collguides.lib.uiowa.edu, accessed October 31, 2016 . 
3. ↑ John Richardson Portl, Press Herald /: Housing Authority Director Dale McCormick steps down. In: centralmaine.com. March 20, 2012, accessed October 31, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Michael Shepherd Staff Writer /: Dale McCormick joins old, new faces seeking Augusta City Council seats. In: centralmaine.com. July 28, 2013, accessed October 31, 2016 . 
5. ^ Dale McCormick, Maine, 1990 Out and Elected in the USA: 1974-2004 outhistory.org. In: outhistory.org. Retrieved November 1, 2016 . 
6. ↑ elisa_rolle: Betsy Sweet & Dale McCormick. In: livejournal.com. January 17, 2015, accessed November 1, 2016 . 
7. ^ Recipients - Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program - University of Maine . In: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program . ( umaine.edu ).
8. ^ 2006 Crystal Vision Award Winners, Dale McCormick and Tari Rivera, Pave the Way for Women in the Construction Industry . In: PRWeb . ( prweb.com ).
9. ^ Maine Women's Hall of Fame | University of Maine at Augusta . In: University of Maine at Augusta . ( uma.edu ). uma.edu ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Catalyst for Change Award | Special Collections | University of Southern Maine. In: maine.edu. usm.maine.edu, accessed October 31, 2016 .