Karen Thurman

Karen L. Thurman ( born January 12, 1951 in Rapid City, South Dakota) is an American politician. Between 1993 and 2003, she represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Karen Thurman was born in South Dakota, but has spent most of her life in Florida. There she attended until 1970, the Santa Fe Community College in Starke. She studied education at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Later she married Judge John Thurman, with whom she has two children. The family settled in Dunnellon. Between 1974 and 1982, Karen Thurman was a member of the local council. From 1979 to 1981 she officiated there as mayor. Politically, she joined the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1992 it was the fifth electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they succeeded the Republican Bill McCollum on January 3, 1993. After four elections she was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2003, five legislative sessions. There she was first a member of the Committee on Agriculture and the Committee on the reform of the structure of government ( Committee on Government Reform and Oversight ). Later, she was a member of the Tax Committee.

After a reorganization of constituencies they defeated in the congressional elections of 2000, the newly articulated fifth district of Republican Ginny Brown -Waite. Between 2005 and 2010, Karen Thurman was in place of Scott Maddox leader of the Democrats in Florida.