Des Moines Polk County Democrat. Practicing attorney, wife of Judge Luther T. Glanton, Jr. One son, Luther T. Glanton III. B.S., Tennessee A. & I. State University, Nashville; LL.B., the Robert H. Terrell Law School, Washington, D.C. Assistant Polk County attorney. Board member Willkie House, Inc., Polk County Society for Crippled Children, Town and Country Y.W.C.A., Library advisory board, former seven-member urban renewal for City of Des Moines. Participant, Know Your Neighbor panel. Des Moines Board, International Education (vice president). Member Delta Sigma Theta, Links, Inc., Jack and Jill, Inc., county, state and national bar associations. Polk County Women's Democratic Club (Federated), Polk County Women's Activities (Democratic Club), John F. Kennedy Democratic Club, past committee woman. Sent to Africa and southeast Asia by U.S. state department under cultural exchange program for 4 and one-half months in 1962. First term.