Delores Landingham was a regular supporting character in the first two seasons of the NBC television series The West Wing.

Landingham (portrayed by actress Kathryn Joosten) was President Josiah Bartlet's secretary. She was an older, matronly woman who could address the President in a very direct (almost abrupt), maternal way that would have been inappropriate and impermissible by other members of the White House staff. In flashbacks it was revealed that she had known the President since he was a teenager in his native New Hampshire where his formidable father served as headmaster of a private school. Mrs. Landingham was then the senior Bartlet's secretary. Mrs. Landingham later worked as Jed Bartlet's secretary during his tenure as Governor and President (and presumedly during his other offices as well). Mrs. Landingham was a widow by the time she worked in the White House and her two children, both sons, had been killed in the Vietnam War. Her character was killed in a traffic accident after purchasing her first new car. In an unusually striking incidence of "life imitating art", the character's death prompted the issuance of memorials by real-life several newspapers and on the floor of the California State Assembly. (See Memorials to Delores Landingham.)

See also

• The West Wing
• Characters on The West Wing
• List of The West Wing episodes