Lorraine H. Morton

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Lorraine H. Morton has been mayor of Evanston, Illinois since 1993.

Morton was re-elected in 1997, 2001, and 2005. Earlier, she served on Evanston's City Council as Fifth Ward alderman for nine years.

Prior to her experience in municipal government, Morton was an educator at Foster Elementary School, Nichols and Chute middle schools, and principal of Evanston's Haven Middle School.

She received her bachelor's degree from Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina and master's degree from Northwestern University.