In 1956 Lady Esther Lipman Jacobs was elected in City of Adelaide as the State’s first woman Councillor and later in 1969 alderman.
She served as the council’s first female elected member for 22 years and later as Deputy Lord Mayor, as well as acting Lord Mayor.
In 2014, Council voted/passed that the room was to be renamed The Lady Esther Lipman Jacobs room in honour of her. It was previously known as the Lady Mayoress Room.
