From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)

In 1977, Dorothy Morrow was the only African American woman in Kentucky holding a city council post. A head nurse at Lynch Medical Center, she was the first African American woman on the Lynch City Council; appointed to fill a vacancy in 1974, she was then elected in 1977.

Dorothy L. Morrow was a graduate of Tuskegee Institute School of Nursing. She was a member of the Lynch [KY] Medical Services for 23 years. She was a member of the Star of Benham Chapter No.77, Order of the Eastern Star. Morrow was also a member of the PDR Council of Elks of Kentucky, the Rising Sun Temple No.808, and the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights. 

Dorothy L. Woods Morrow died in 1993 and is buried at the Monte Vista Cemetery in Cumberland, KY. She was the daughter of John and Emma L. Woods. She was the wife of William Henry Morrow.

Additional information about Dorothy Morrow will be found in the Billye M. Peeples Papers at the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center. Billye M. Peeples is the daughter of Dorothy and William Morrow.

For more see "Mrs. Dorothy Morrow: Beta Sigma Phi honored Mrs. Morrow for nursing." The Tri-City News, 09 October 1975, p.8; "Mayor, 45 councilmen are black city officials," in 1978 Kentucky Directory of Black Elected Officials, Fifth Report by the Commission on Human Rights, p. 20; African American Miners and Migrants: the Eastern Kentucky Social Club, by P. J. Obermiller; "Mrs. Dorothy L. Morrow, Registered Nurse in Coal Country," African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia: A History, 1900-1965, p. 70, at Google Books. See the Billye M. Peeples Papers at the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.