Lodge, Sheila, Mayor
Biography
Lodge was born at home on her parents’ dairy farm in Arcadia. She is a lifelong Californian except for 2 1/2 years in Annapolis, MD, where she taught school and did social work. She returned to California in 1950 and came to Santa Barbara in 1952.
Lodge served on the Santa Barbara City Planning Commission, 1973-75; the City Council, 1975-81; and as mayor, 1981-93. An incurable public policy wonk, since 2009, she’s back on the Planning Commission where she started her civic life in 1973.
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Jackson (Beverley) Photograph Collection
The Beverley Jackson Photograph Collection contains photographs of well-known people including actors, artists, architects, athletes, authors, chefs, dancers, musicians, talk show hosts, royalty, and philanthropists. These black and white enlargements were taken by Santa Barbara News-Press society writer Beverley Jackson and illustrate the events chronicled in her "By The Way" newspaper columns.