Lottie H. Shackelford is an African-American politician. In 1987, she became the first woman elected Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas. Six years later, President Bill Clinton appointed her to the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, making her the first African American woman to serve in that capacity. She is also the longest serving Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee, having been continuously re-elected to the position since 1989 and working with six different Chairmen over the past eighteen years. 

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