Dagmar Braun Celeste

Dagmar Ingrid Braun Celeste (born 1941) is a counselor, Christian priest, and author. The former first lady of Ohio, she was married to former Ohio governor (1983–1991) and U.S. ambassador Richard F. Celeste, whom she met while attending Oxford University in England. They have six grown children, and were divorced in 1995.

Celeste was born in Krems, Austria.

Celeste holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in women's studies, a public policy law degree from Capital University, and a master's degree in alcoholism and drug abuse ministry from the Methodist Theological School in Ohio. She is also a licensed Polarity practitioner.

Some notable achievements as first lady of Ohio included chairing the Ohio Recovery Council, spearheading the drive to establish the first state-sponsored on-site child care center and Employee Assistance Program in Ohio, initiating the Task Force on Family Violence, co-chairing the Governor's Commission on Volunteerism, and serving as Co-Chair of the Council on Holocaust Education. She was an Ohio delegate to the Democratic Convention in 1980. Since 1992, she has continued to remain politically active through such organizations as the National Peace Institute, Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament, the Council for Ethics in Economics, and the Women's Community Fund in Cleveland.

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