Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (born October 5, 1932) is a politician from Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. She was the Los Angeles County Supervisor representing the 2nd District (1992–2008). She has served as the Chair three times (1993–94, 1997–98, 2002–03). She was the first African-American woman to represent the West Coast in Congress. Her husband is William Burke, a prominent philanthropist and creator of the Los Angeles Marathon.
On December 1, 2008, she retired from the Board of Supervisors and was replaced by Mark Ridley-Thomas.
On Thursday, March 29, 2012, she was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as a Director on the Amtrak Board of Directors.
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“To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)