Jane Roy, first woman member of Kansas Corporation Commission, dies

? Jane Twining Roy, the first woman to ever serve on the Kansas Corporation Commission, has died at the age of 86.

Roy’s husband, Bill Roy, says she died Monday after a short illness.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Gov. John Carlin appointed Jane Roy to the KCC in 1979 and she served until 1983.

Roy was one of only three women at at Washburn University’s School of Law when she enrolled in 1964. She received her law degree in 1970. She was active in her husband’s 1970 campaign for Congress. After the couple returned to Topeka in 1975, she was 2nd District chairman for the Kansas Democratic Party, and as Democratic National Committeewoman from 1975 to 1979.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the First United Methodist Church in Topeka.