Clara Penniman, 94, a ground-breaking University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist and scholar of public finance, died Friday of pneumonia in Madison.
Penniman was the first female chairwoman of the UW-Madison political science department, serving from 1963-1966, when all the political science faculty were men. She also founded the Center for the Study of Public Policy and Administration at UW-Madison, the precursor of todayâ??s Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.