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Born in Standard in northern La Salle Parish in North Louisiana, Blackmon was one of two daughters of Robert Samuel Kinnison and the former Emma Horne. Her surviving sister is Dorothy Kinnision, also of West Monroe. In 1967, Blackmon became the first woman to receive a degree in industrial management from the College of Business Administration of the [[University of Louisiana at Monroe]].<ref name=obit/>

Born in Standard in northern La Salle Parish in North Louisiana, Blackmon was one of two daughters of Robert Samuel Kinnison and the former Emma Horne. Her surviving sister is Dorothy Kinnision, also of West Monroe. In 1967, Blackmon became the first woman to receive a degree in industrial management from the College of Business Administration of the [[University of Louisiana at Monroe]].<ref name=obit/>

In 1968, she became the first woman elected president of the Louisiana Realtors Association. She was instrumental in securing the property which became the West Monroe Post Office as well as the acquisition of Glenwood Mall and its conversion to a Medical Mall. In 1974, she was the first woman in Louisiana to receive the Realtor designation of "Certified Commercial Investment Member." She was the first woman named to the Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry, an appointment that she received in 1976 from then Lieutenant Governor  Jimmy Fitzmorris.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=evelyn-blackmon&pid=171102732&fhid=20715#sthash.a89ANCcS.dpuf|title=Evelyn Blackmon obituary|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star'''|accessdate=May 23, 2014}}</ref> She was also a former director of the West Monroe [[Chamber of Commerce]].<ref name=eblackmon/>

In 1968, she became the first woman elected president of the Louisiana Realtors Association. She was instrumental in securing the property which became the West Monroe Post Office as well as the acquisition of Glenwood Mall and its conversion to a Medical Mall. In 1974, she was the first woman in Louisiana to receive the Realtor designation of "Certified Commercial Investment Member." She was the first woman named to the Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry, an appointment that she received in 1976 from then Lieutenant Governor  Jimmy Fitzmorris.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=evelyn-blackmon&pid=171102732&fhid=20715#sthash.a89ANCcS.dpuf|title=Evelyn Blackmon obituary|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|accessdate=May 23, 2014}}</ref> She was also a former director of the West Monroe [[Chamber of Commerce]].<ref name=eblackmon/>

==Political life==

==Political life==