National History
The Links, Incorporated is an international, not-for-profit corporation, established in 1946. The membership consists of nearly 14,000 professional women of color in 285 chapters located in 41 states, the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.
It is one of the nation’s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations of extraordinary women who are committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry.
The Links, Incorporated is an organization of accomplished, dedicated women who are active in your community. The Links members are newsmakers, role models, mentors, activists and volunteers who work toward the realization of making the name “Links” not only a chain of friendship, but also a chain of purposeful service.
For more details about the national organization of Links, click here.
Local History
With fourteen civic-minded women comprising its charter membership, The San Antonio Chapter of The Links, Incorporated was formally installed during a chartering ceremony on December 10, 1960. The Charter Members of the San Antonio (TX) Chapter are: Ophelia Aycock, Josephine Bellinger, Helen Booker, Bella Cameron, Christine Clardy, Doris Horne Ellison**, Anna Harris, Vernis Hudgins, Myrtle Hurd, Alma Inge, Marion Johnson, Lillian Story, Julia Taylor and Augusta Whittier.
**Active Charter Member
Link Doris Horne Ellison
San Antonio (TX) Chapter
The Links, Incorporated
Officers
2017 – 2019
PRESIDENT, Kayla Jewitt Jackson
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT, Paula E. Miles
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT, Angela A. Jolivette
RECORDING SECRETARY, Renée Thurston Moore
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, Yvonne Horne Clemons
FINANCIAL SECRETARY, Velma Willoughby Kemp
TREASURER, Michelle Hayes
PARLIAMENTARIAN, Edra Bush
HISTORIAN, Doris Horne Ellison
CHAPLAIN, Karen Trotty Douglas
Current Members (Active)
| Rosaland Guidry Anderson***
Laura Banks-Reed+ Yonnie Blanchette Danese Blankenship Deborah Stanton Burke Jelynne LeBlanc Burley Dianna Moseley Burns-Banks Sherrilynne Cherry Marnice Cheryl Davis Mary Peters Davis Mashandra Detresha Elam Doris Horne Ellison*+ Kathryn Dorsey Harris Tricia Hilliard Yvonne E. Hilliard Renée Horne Sharalyn Johnson Yolanda Michelle Johnson Lillian Martin Jones Sharla Jones-Flaum
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Angela Kaiser
Wynette Hadnott Keller Harriet O’Banion Kelley Jennifer R. Kelley** Margaret A. Kelley Alice Rose Kennedy+ Stacie H. Koonhow Jeanine Martin Melissa Monroe-Young Kendahl Owoh Bonnie Prosser-Elder Francine Prosser-Johnson Aissatou Sidime-Blanton Tara Margin Sutton Tina Tatum Ivy Ruth Taylor Joycelyn Theard-Battles Dominique Renee Vining Tracy Walker-Banks Dorathy Washington Margaret Carmen Winn |
Alumna Members
| Brenda Winborne Anderson
Thelma Taylor Andrews Kaye Parsons Bennett Shawana Freeman Blair Ollie Sanders Bryant Tessye Thomas Carroll Minnie Walker Collins Deborah Collins Crawford |
Jerlene S. Dean
Joan Hartfield Duncan Clarice Golightly-Jenkins Maria Stevenson Greene Clarice Thompson Jackson Carolyn C. James Barbara Price Lawrence Aaronetta Hamilton Pierce |
*Charter Member
**Western Area Nominating Committee Member
***Western Area Nominating Fund Development Chair
+Platinum Member
