Shirley Neil Pettis

Shirley Neil Pettis ( born July 12, 1924 in Mountain View, California) is a former U.S. politician. Between 1975 and 1979, she represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Shirley Neil McCumber, so her maiden name, attended 1931-1932, the Elementary Schools in Berkeley and then to 1937 in Berrien Springs (Michigan). By 1942, she was at Andrews University Academy, also in Berrien Springs, and then to 1943 at the local Andrews University. This was followed in the years 1944 and 1945 to study at the University of California at Berkeley. She was co-founder and from 1950 to 1953 manager of the audio - Digest Foundation. Between 1967 and 1970 she wrote newspaper articles in San Bernardino. Politically, she was a member of the Republican Party. In 1975, she served as Vice President of the Association of the Women of Republican congressmen. She herself was married to the deputies Jerry Pettis.

After the death of her husband, Shirley Pettis was at the due election for the 37th seat of California as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they took up their new mandate on April 29, 1975. After a re-election they could remain until January 3, 1979 at the Congress. In 1978 they gave up another candidacy. In the years 1980 and 1981, she was Vice President of the Women's Research and Education Institute in the capital Washington. After that, she was a member until 1983, the Commission on arms control and disarmament. From 1990 to 1992, she was sitting in the präsidentialen Scholarship Commission. Between 1979 and 1997 Shirley Pettis was a board member of the Kemper National Insurance Companies. Your retirement years she spends in Rancho Mirage.