Elmer Lucille Allen

Elmer Lucille Allen
Born
Elmer Lucille Hammonds

(1931-08-23) August 23, 1931
Louisville, Kentucky
EducationLouisville Municipal College
Nazareth College
AwardsGovernor's Award in the Arts (Kentucky)
Scientific career
FieldsCeramic art, chemistry
InstitutionsBrown-Forman (distillery)

Elmer Lucille Allen (born August 23, 1931) is an American ceramic artist and chemist. In 1966, she became the first African-American chemist at Brown-Forman in Louisville, Kentucky, and worked there for 31 years. In 2004, she became the first recipient of the Kentucky Arts Council Governor's Award in the Arts for Community Arts.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.