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Rita Heard Days

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Role
  
Politician

Political party
  
Democratic

Education
  
Lincoln University

Residence
  
St. Louis, Missouri

Party
  
Democratic Party

Name
  
Rita Days


Born
  
October 16, 1950 (age 73) Minden, Louisiana, Webster Parish, Louisiana Louisiana, United States (
1950-10-16
)

Alma mater
  
Lincoln University (Missouri)

Succeeded by
  
Maria Chappelle-Nadal

Rita Heard Days (born October 16, 1950) is a Democratic politician from St. Louis, Missouri. She served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 1993 to 2000, and was a member of the Missouri State Senate from 2003 to 2011.

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Background and personal life

Days was born in Minden, Louisiana and educated at Lincoln University. She has three children.

Political career

Days was first elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in a special election in 1993, and served in that body through the year 2000. She was elected to the Missouri State Senate in 2002. As a senator, she served on the following committees:

  • Education
  • Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight
  • Small Business, Insurance and Industry
  • Transportation
  • Select Committee on Oversight of Federal Stimulus, Vice-Chairman
  • Joint Committee (both House and Senate) on Education
  • Joint Committee on Government Accountability
  • Joint Committee on Public Employee Retirement
  • Joint Committee on Transportation Oversight

    • In 2010, she was succeeded in the Senate by fellow Democrat Maria Chappelle-Nadal.

    References

    Rita Heard Days Wikipedia
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