Lyda Green
Lyda Green | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Alaska State Senate | |
| In office January 21, 2003 – January 19, 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Jalmar M. Kerttula |
| Succeeded by | Linda Menard |
| Constituency | N district (1995–2003) G district (2003–2009) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lyda Nell Handley October 16, 1938 Livingston, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | December 19, 2023 (aged 85) Soldotna, Alaska, U.S. |
| Party | Republican |
| Spouse | Curtis |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Sam Houston State University, University of Alaska |
| Profession | Educator, business owner |
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Lyda Nell Green (née Handley; October 16, 1938 – December 19, 2023) was an American educator and Republican politician in the U.S. state of Alaska. Green, as a political newcomer, was elected to the Alaska Senate in 1994, defeating a 22-year Democratic incumbent in a district representing most of the population of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Two Democratic members of the Alaska House of Representatives, also from the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, were defeated in the same election. Green served a total of fourteen years in the Senate and was its president in her final two years in office.