Orr, Kay A. (Kay Avonne), 1939-
Kay Avonne Orr (née Stark, January 2, 1939) is an American politician who served as the 36th Governor of Nebraska from 1987 to 1991. A member of the Republican Party, she was the state's first female governor.
Orr was born Kay Avonne Stark in Burlington, Iowa. She attended the University of Iowa from 1956 to 1957. Moving to Lincoln, Nebraska in 1963, Orr began volunteering for the Nebraska Republican Party shortly thereafter. She was named Nebraska's Outstanding Young Republican Woman in 1969. Orr was appointed to fill a midterm vacancy in the office of State Treasurer of Nebraska in 1981. She was subsequently elected to that post in 1982, becoming the first woman ever to be elected to a statewide constitutional office in Nebraska. She held that office until 1987.
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