Spellman easily won the Democratic primary nomination in September 1974 for Maryland's fifth congressional seat, and went on to defeat the Republican, John B. Johnson to the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations in 1967 and was awarded the highest honor that could be bestowed by county officials nationwide when she became the first woman elected president of the National *ociation of Counties in 1972.
After the establishment of the County Council, Spellman served as councilwoman at large from 1971 to 1974. She served two years as chairman, effectively the head of the county's government. In 1962, running on a reform slate, she served as a member of the Prince George's County Board of Commissioners from 1962 to 1970. Spellman was active in the fight for a home rule charter form of government for Prince George's. Her activities led to leadership positions in the reform movement that seized control of the Prince George's County government during the 1960s, ousting the old guard Democratic organization that had managed affairs in Prince George's for decades. Teacher and county politicianĭuring the 1950s and 1960s, Spellman was a teacher and president of the PTA for Happy Acres Elementary School (renamed the Gladys Noon Spellman Elementary School in 1991) and a civic *ociation activist as a young mother and housewife in Cheverly. A consummate politician, Spellman was part of the wave of young, new suburban dwellers who moved to Prince George's County from Washington and elsewhere in the years after World War II, and that group remained her cons*uency throughout her political career. Spellman became a teacher, and taught in Prince George's County, Maryland, schools.
She graduated from George Washington University, Washington, D.C., and graduate school with the United States Department of Agriculture. Spellman was born Gladys Blossom Noon in New York City and attended Eastern and Roosevelt high schools in Washington, D.C.
She was a member of the Democratic Party. representative for Maryland's 5th congressional district from January 3, 1975, to February 24, 1981, when her seat was declared vacant after she fell into a coma the previous year. Gladys Noon Spellman (born Gladys Blossom Noon Ma– June 19, 1988) was an American educator who served as the U.S.
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