This is a beautiful portrait, and representative of black womanhood and leadership, Godwin said.
Artist Renee Ricks-Miller, of Chesterton, commissioned the piece, he said.Â
Freeman-Wilson, born and raised in Gary, obtained a law degree from Harvard University in 1985, and returned home to become city judge in 1994. In 2000, Gov. Frank OâBannon appointed Freeman-Wilson as Indiana attorney general.
She won the mayor s seat in 2011, after then-mayor Rudy Clay announced he was ending his reelection campaign and threw support behind Freeman-Wilson to be his successor.
Since her loss to Prince in the November 2019 election, she became president and CEO of the Chicago Urban League.