Senator Stephanie Flowers
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- District: 8
- Seniority: 1
- District Address: 217 South Main Street, Pine Bluff, 71601
- Phone: (501) 682-7664
- Email: Stephanie.Flowers@senate.ar.gov
- Party: Democrat
- Occupation: Attorney
- Legislative Service: Senate 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017
House 2005,2007,2009
Senator Stephanie Flowers is the seventh of nine children of the late attorney, W. Harold Flowers, and educator, Margaret Brown Flowers.
She was born on August 8, 1953, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She graduated from Pine Bluff High School, Philander Smith College and the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. While in law school she served as the Research Editor for the law review journal.
Senator Flowers is a lawyer. She was first licensed to practice law in Texas in 1982 and in Arkansas in 1991. She has been in private practice since 1982, nine years in Houston and 34 years in Pine Bluff. She is a member of the Jefferson County Bar Association and several law associations, including the W. Harold Flowers Law Society that is named in honor of her father.
Senator Flowers served as deputy prosecutor in juvenile court in Jefferson County, Arkansas, for one year, in 1994. She ran for Juvenile Judge in Jefferson County in 1994 as an independent. That was prior to the passage of a state law that made all judicial races nonpartisan. She lost to the incumbent Democrat.
In 2004 she successfully ran for the Arkansas state House of Representatives from District 17 and served three terms. In 2010 she successfully ran for the state Senate, District 5, and has continued service in the State Senate. Senator Flowers is currently in her final four-year term. She represents Senate District 8, which covers parts of Jefferson, Lincoln, Desha, Arkansas, Lonoke, and Pulaski Counties.
As a state senator she has served as an Assistant President Pro Tempore of the Arkansas Senate. In the 95th Arkansas General Assembly, she serves on the Senate Education Committee and the Senate Insurance and Commerce Committee.
Senator Flowers has successfully sponsored and co-sponsored significant legislation, including bills to provide opportunities for disabled veterans, to improve public education and to promote economic development and job growth in Arkansas.
She was honored to serve as a member of the Executive Committee of the Arkansas state Democratic Party under the late chairman, Bill Gwatney.
She was elected as a delegate to the Democratic National Committee in 2008 in support of Barack Obama. She is a member of the National Association of University Women and the Jefferson County Democratic Women.
Senator Flowers is active in her community and supports projects that make a difference in the lives of young people, adults and seniors of Senate District 8. However, her perspective is broad and she supports initiatives that benefit the entire state of Arkansas.
Senator Flowers has one son, William Zeri. She is a member of the Mount Pleasant A.M.E. Church.
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