Editing Alexis Herman (section)

== Personal life and death ==
Herman was [[Carnival Queen|Queen of Carnival]] for the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association in 1974.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mamga.com/id12.html|title=Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association|website=www.mamga.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224053946/http://www.mamga.com/id12.html|archive-date=February 24, 2012|access-date=January 21, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Hoffman, Roy, MAMGA queen 1940">{{Cite news|url=http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2012/02/mamga_queen_1940_looks_back_at.html|title=MAMGA queen 1940 looks back at age 90 on the elegance and festivity of first black Mardi Gras|last=Hoffman|first=Roy|date=February 19, 2012|work=AL.com|access-date=January 16, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://blog.al.com/live/2010/01/jamarcus_russell_to_be_crowned.html|title=JaMarcus Russell to be crowned King Elexis I by Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association|last=Hoffman|first=Roy|date=January 19, 2010|work=AL.com|access-date=January 16, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> Her father had served as King of Carnival in his youth.<ref name="Hoffman, Roy, MAMGA queen 1940" />

Herman married physician Charles Franklin Jr. in February 2000 at the [[Washington National Cathedral]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2000/02/15/the-reliable-source/010ac1ce-7efb-4bd6-a311-2720184440a5/|title=The Reliable Source|last=Grove|first=Lloyd|date=February 15, 2000|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=December 23, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Franklin had three children from previous marriages. He died in 2014 following an extended illness.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=charles-l-franklin&pid=171247836|title=Charles L. Franklin Jr.'s Obituary on The Washington Post|date=June 6, 2015|website=legacy.com|access-date=December 23, 2017}}</ref>

Herman died in [[Washington, D.C.]], on April 25, 2025, at the age of 77.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sandomir |first1=Richard |title=Alexis Herman, First Black Secretary of Labor, Dies at 77 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/us/politics/alexis-herman-dead.html |access-date=April 27, 2025 |website=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 27, 2025 }}</ref>