Luck Flanders Gambrell

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Luck Flanders Gambrell
Born	Luck Coleman Flanders (1930-01-17)January 17, 1930 Swainsboro, Georgia
Died	June 29, 2015(2015-06-29) (aged 85)
Alma mater	Duke University (1950)
Spouse	David H. Gambrell (m. 1953; died 2015)
Children	Luck Jr. Henry Alice Mary

Luck Flanders Gambrell (January 17, 1930 – June 29, 2015) was an American philanthropist.

Luck Coleman Flanders was born in Swainsboro on January 17, 1930 to Mattie Moring Mitchell Flanders and William Henry Flanders.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Gambrell attended Duke University and graduated in 1950.^[4] She also studied briefly at the University of Tours and the University of Fribourg.

On October 16, 1953, she married attorney David H. Gambrell,^[5] who briefly served as a US senator in the early 1970s. The couple moved to Atlanta, where she taught French at The Westminster Schools. Gambrell also was part of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society and campaigned for her husband in his unsuccessful runs for reelection in 1972 and governor in 1974.^[1]

Gambrell donated 190 acres (77 ha) of land in 1971 to be used for East Georgia College. The college named the Luck Flanders Gambrell Center after her in 2001.^[6]

Gambrell was the first woman appointed to the Georgia Board of Public Safety by Georgia governor George Busbee; she served from 1981 to 1990.

Gambrell died on June 29, 2015.

Gambrell was inducted into the Georgia Women of Achievement in 2023.^[7]^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Luck Flanders Gambrell". Georgia Women of Achievement. 2023. Archived from the original on 2023-06-10.
^ Eppes, Helen, ed. (1948). "Seniors". The Stage Coach. St. Mary's School and Junior College: 22.
^ "Interview with Luck C. Flanders Gambrell, March 30, 1971". UGA Special Collections Libraries Oral Histories. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
^ "Luck Gambrell Obituary". Durden-Hudson Funeral Directors. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
^ Brown, A. D. (1956). Bench and Bar of Georgia, 1955-1956. Macon, Georgia.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Derden, John K. (March 29, 2017). "East Georgia State College". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
^ "Luck Flanders Gambrell named to Hall of Fame". Emanuel County Live. Retrieved 2 June 2024.

Georgia Women of Achievement

1990s

1992	Martha Berry Lucy Craft Laney Juliette Gordon Low Flannery O'Connor
1993	Dicksie Bradley Bandy Mary Musgrove Cassandra Pickett Durham Viola Ross Napier Ma Rainey
1994	Julia Flisch Carson McCullers Margaret Mitchell Ruth Hartley Mosley Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman
1995	Selena Sloan Butler Anna Colquitt Hunter Hazel Jane Raines
1996	Susan Cobb Milton Atkinson Nellie Peters Black Ellen Craft Corra Harris Lugenia Burns Hope
1997	Rebecca Latimer Felton Mary Ann Harris Gay Nancy Hart Lucy Barrow McIntire
1998	Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Julia Collier Harris Rhoda Kaufman Carrie Steele Logan
1999	Moina Michael Lillian Smith

2000s

2000	Sallie Ellis Davis Laura Askew Haygood Ellen Axson Wilson
2001	Julia L. Coleman Catherine Evans Whitener
2002	Wessie Gertrude Connell Lula Dobbs McEachern Alice Harrell Strickland
2003	Madeleine Kiker Anthony Helena Maud Brown Cobb Julia Lester Dillon Leila Ross Wilburn
2004	Mathilda Beasley Louise Frederick Hays Helen Dortch Longstreet Sarah McLendon Murphy Emily Barnelia Woodward
2005	Alice Woodby McKane Nina Anderson Pape Jeannette Rankin
2006	Eliza Frances Andrews Grace Towns Hamilton Sarah Porter Hillhouse
2007	Margaret O. Bynum Edith Lenora Foster Helen Douglas Mankin Sara Branham Matthews
2008	Elfrida De Renne Barrow Amilee Chastain Graves Susan Dowdell Myrick
2009	Caroline Pafford Miller Jane Hurt Yarn Harriet Powers

2010s

2010	Mary Ann Lipscomb Celestine Sibley Madrid Williams
2011	Lillian Gordy Carter Mary Francis Hill Coley May duBignon Stiles Howard
2012	Sarah Randolph Bailey Beulah Rucker Oliver Ethel Harpst
2013	Lollie Belle Wylie Mary Gregory Jewett Henrietta Stanley Dull
2014	Rebecca Stiles Taylor Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas Bazoline Estelle Usher
2015	Allie Carroll Hart Frances Freeborn Pauley Nell Kendall Hodgson Woodruff
2016	Sarah Harper Heard Ellamae Ellis League Katie Hall Underwood
2017	Carolyn Mackenzie Carter Clermont Huger Lee Lucile Nix
2018	Ludie Clay Andrews Susie Baker King Taylor Mamie George S. Williams
2019	Leila Denmark Mary Dorothy Lyndon

2020s

2020	Clarice Cross Bagwell Katharine DuPre Lumpkin Juanita Marsh Jean Elizabeth Geiger Wright
2021	Ruby M. Anderson Mary G. Bryan Laura Pope Forester Allie Murray Smith
2022	Lizzie Lurline Collier Josephine Fields Sanders Hedy West Josephine Wilkins
2023	Phyllis Jenkins Barrow Alice Coachman Luck Flanders Gambrell Dorothy Rogers Tilly
2024	Beatrice Hirsch Haas Adella Hunt Logan Valerie Murphey Elizabeth "Bessie" Tift

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