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Phenomenal Woman Award Dinner

Donna R. Liggins is a 46 year resident of the Northwest/Mansfield neighborhood. She is a loving wife, a mother to five children and grandmother to seven children. In 1989 Donna also became a foster parent and remained in that role for seven years.

As a city employee since 1968, Donna has worked for the City of Tucson, at the Mansfield Recreation Center; Archer Neighborhood Center; Ormsby Center; the Oury Center; the Armory Park Senior Center; the Quince Douglas Neighborhood Center, the Verde Meadows Center, and was at the Randolph Center for thirteen years. Presently she is the Supervisor for the Northwest/Mansfield Neighborhood Center.

Donna is a woman who has consistently strives to make a difference in our community. She is truly a woman who has walked many different paths and worn many different hats. Donna readily accepts challenges, and gives freely of herself and her time. These attributes are combined with a caring, warm, and compassionate personality, which enables her to be unselfishly involved in her community, her family, her church and the political arena. It is in this manner that she touches the lives of so many Tucson residents.

Donna’s outreach philosophy is simple; she is committed to the empowerment and enhancement of the mental, spiritual, and even physical well being of those around her. Her primary focus is for the community as a whole to come together in a unified spirit of achievements.

Today, Donna continues to serve in the numerous organizations through out the City of Tucson and Pima County. She actively participates as the chairperson for the Social Justice Ministry; for more than fifteen years she has been working with the Jewish Interfaith Center and the Black Women’s Task Force, where she graciously served as the chairperson for the annual conference held in May 2002 and was the vice-president for 2002-2004.

Donna has been a diligent worker with the NAACP and was honored as the chairperson for the Annual NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner. In this organization she now serves as its first vice president. For the past sixteen years, she has been a tireless administrator of the MLK celebration at Reid Park and also serves on the Juneteenth Committee. And, recently, Mrs. Liggins was nominated for The Woman on the Move Award and received The Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Leadership Award. Also the Junteenth Award in 2003.

In February 2008 Donna was a recipient of three distinguished awards. She received an Outstanding Community Service Award” from the A Philip Randolph Institute, “Living Maker” Rosa Parks’s award from the LULA and a “Distinguished Black Woman Award” from the Progressive Black Women Civic Club (The National Association of Colored Women).

For more information about the event, contact the UA Black Alumni at 626.8626 or email us: uaba@al.arizona.edu