What is Lynn Yeakel?
[[File:Lynn Hardy Yeakel 2014.jpg|right|200px]] '''Lynn Hardy Yeakel''' (July 9, 1941&nbsp;– January 13, 2022) was an American administrator and [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] politician. She was the Director of [[Drexel University|Drexel University College of Medicine's Institute for Women's Health and Leadership]]. Yeakel was born in [[Portsmouth, Virginia]]. Yeakel ran for the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] in 1992 in [[Pennsylvania]] against Senator [[Arlen Specter]]. She unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic nomination for [[Governor of Pennsylvania]] in the 1994 [[Pennsylvania gubernatorial election]]. Yeakel died on January 13, 2022 in [[Fort Myers, Florida]] from a short-illness, aged 80.<ref>[https://www.inquirer.com/news/lynn-yeakel-obituary-vision-2020-democrat-pennsylvania-20220115.html Lynn Yeakel, unrelenting voice for women’s equality who waged close race for U.S. Senate, dies at 80]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Yeakel, Lynn}} [[Category:1941 births]] [[Category:2022 deaths]] [[Category:Politicians from Virginia]] [[Category:Politicians from Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Democratic Party (United States) politicians]] [[Category:People from Portsmouth, Virginia]] [[Category:Writers from Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Writers from Virginia]] {{US-bio-stub}}