| Summary: | Insurance executive Alma Dodd was born on September 5, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois. Dodd received her B.S. degree in education from Northern Illinois University in 1966. Dodd received her M.S. degree in education with a focus on special education, learning disabilities and administration and supervision from Chicago State University in 1974. After spending twenty-one years in Chicago public education as a language arts and disabilities specialist and supervisor, Dodd began a new career in the insurance industry when she became part owner and operator along with her husband, Louis Dodd, of an Allstate Insurance Company in Calumet City, Illinois, in 1988. From 1990 through 1994, her agency was recognized as the Top Allstate Insurance Agency in Illinois. Dodd has been a charter member of the Windy City Chapter of The Links, Inc., and former chapter president. Dodd has also served on the board of directors for ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Black Creativity, The HistoryMakers and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
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