Marcella Davis
City staff found this clipping in the Kansas Room of the Leavenworth Public Library in 2023. It was on microfilm from the March 12, 1939 Leavenworth Times newspaper. It reads:
"Walter Wilson, state treasurer of Kansas, announces the selection of Miss Marcella Davis of Leavenworth as one of the chief clerks in his office. Miss Davis formerly was a stenographer in the office of T.W. Bell, an attorney (in Leavenworth). She was born here, attended the public schools and is a graduate of the Senior high school. She has assumed her new duties at Topeka. She is the first Kansas colored girl to be appointed to a state position of such responsibility."
It should be noted that the City's preferred term is African American person. The wording above is left unchanged for historical and educational purposes.
