Evangeline M. Lamberts was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1923. She attended the University of Michigan in 1943, where she majored in nursing. In 1949 Evangeline married Dr. Austin Lamberts. The couple moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan a year later and had three daughters. Once in Grand Rapids, Mich. Evangeline Lamberts was an active member of the League of Women Voters. In 1961, Evangeline Lamberts became the first woman to win a seat in the Grand Rapids City Commission, defeating three term commissioner Robert Blandford. Lamberts served one term, leaving the City Commission in 1965. She is known for pushing the annexation of the North Park section of Grand Rapids and for speaking up on the treatment of juvenile delinquents. Evangeline Lamberts passed away in 2004.