Florence Shapiro
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Florence Shapiro is a current Texas state senator representing the 8th Senatorial District. She represents 677,109 Texans in the cities of Addison, Allen, Carrollton, Coppell, Dallas, Farmers Branch, Frisco, Irving, Lewisville, McKinney, Plano, Richardson, and other outlying areas. She is known as a champion for education and children's issues. She is a Republican.
She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in secondary education. Shapiro began her professional career as a public school teacher. She first entered politics as a member of the Plano, Texas City Council. After six terms, she was elected Mayor of Plano. During this time, Shapiro was the President of the Texas Municipal League and the North Texas Council of Governments. She was first elected to the Texas State Senate in 1993, and has served as a state senator since then. On January 11, 2005 she was sworn in as President Pro-Tempore of the Senate. She was the first senator from Collin County to serve in that position in more than forty years.On April 9, 2005, Senator Shapiro served as the Texas Governor for a day, the sixth woman in Texas history to be 'Governor for a Day'.
In the Texas State Senate she serves as Chairman of the Senate Education Committee. Shapiro is also a member of the Senate Committees on Finance, Administration, and Transportation and Homeland and Security. Governor Rick Perry recently appointed her to the Southern Regional Education Board. She is a former Chairman of the Senate State Affairs Committee. In 2002, she was named Woman of the Year by Les Femme du Monde.
Shapiro is president of Shapiro & Company, an advertising, public relations and special events agency.
She lives in Plano with her husband Howard. They have three children and five grandchildren.
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