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SBHC Mss 146
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Title: Margaret Connell papers
Identifier/Call Number: SBHC Mss 146
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
2 Linear Feet
(2 cartons, 17 VHS, 8 DVD, 23 audio cassettes)
Abstract: This collection documents the career of Margaret Connell, a public servant in Santa Barbara County who held roles on the Santa
Barbara School Board, with Planned Parenthood of Santa Barbara, the Goleta City Council, and as the first Mayor of Goleta.
She was a major player in the campaign that led to Goleta's incorporation as a city in 2001 and thus was elected to its first
City Council. She was elected its first Mayor in 2008.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Creator:
Connell, Margaret, 1930 -
Date (inclusive): 1965 December - 2005
Materials related to the professional career of Margaret Connell, the first Mayor of Goleta. Majority of materials relate
to her time on the Santa Barbara School Board in the 1980s-1990s.
The collection is open for research.
Gift of Margaret Connell, 2024.
This collection is arranged into four series:
- Series 1, Santa Barbara School Board
- Series 2, Planned Parenthood of Santa Barbara
- Series 3, GoletaNow! Campaign
- Series 4, Campaigns for Goleta Offices
- Series 5, Goleta City Council Issues
Margaret Connell was born in England. She moved to Goleta in 1956 and has lived there ever since. She began her career in
public service in 1970 when she was elected to the Santa Barbara School Board. She served until 1988, then joined the Board
of Planned Parenthood of Santa Barbara, where she worked to make abortion and reproductive care more accessible across Santa
Barbara county until 1992.
Connell played a large role in the GoletaNow! campaign that sought cityhood for the then-unincorporated community of Goleta.
Incorporation was successfully approved in a 2001 ballot, and Connell was elected to the first City Council. She was inaugurated
on February 1, 2002, and incorporation was officially celebrated the next day. Although Connell lost her 2006 re-election
campaign, she returned in 2008 and was elected the first Mayor of the City of Goleta.
[Identification of Item], Margaret Connell papers, SBHC Mss 146. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to
the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and are retained by the creator
and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.
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