Mayor Jim Kenney to pay tribute to Philadelphia boxing pioneer Lynne Carter
The City and Carter’s colleagues to celebrate the Hall of Fame boxing judge’s career achievements in a recognition ceremony at City Hall.
WHO: Scheduled: Mayor Jim Kenney; City Representative Sheila Hess; Honoree
Lynne Suzette Carter; George Bochetto, former Pennsylvania Boxing
Commissioner; Jacquelyn Frazier-Lyde, former Philadelphia Municipal Court
Judge and Boxing Hall of Fame boxer; Bob Lee, International Boxing
Federation President, Gary Carter (Lynne’s cousin) and Lynne Carter’s
colleagues and friends.
WHAT: Mayor Kenney will host a hometown tribute ceremony for West Mt. Airy’s
Lynne Carter, the first female to officiate in Pennsylvania at an international
level, a world-renowned boxing official and former City of Philadelphia
employee.
WHEN: Wednesday, June 19 at 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: City Hall, Mayor’s Reception Room 202
DETAILS:
Mayor Kenney will honor Carter for her distinguished 35-year career spanning many continents and countries, from the United Kingdom to Asia. Through purpose and persistence, she punched through the barriers of inequality overcoming many obstacles to excel in a male-dominated field. Locally, she was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fames in Pennsylvania this year (in February) and in New Jersey (2012). She was mentored in officiating by boxing heavyweight greats Joe Frazier and Jersey Joe Walcott, the world’s first professional female boxing official Carol Polis — as well as Jimmy Binns, Francis Walker and Charles Campbell.
Carter has judged more than 750 bouts including world-title matches. As a judge, she was first female in Connecticut, the first African-American female, the first woman in the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Organization and the World Boxing Union. Carter was recognized with a Philadelphia City Council Resolution recently. Carter also has been a champion out of the ring; she is founder of A Fight for the Cause Foundation, a fundraising nonprofit serving children and women including causes for victims of Katrina and research and after-school programs for autistic children in West Philadelphia. Carter also was an employee in the City’s Streets Department.
Photos from event can be found here: Albert Lee, Office of the City Representative