Senate Committees:
79th General Assembly - Education (vice chairwoman); Apportionment, Elections, Military and Veterans Affairs; Constitutional Amendments and Reorganization; Local Government, Fees and Salaries; Public Health, Welfare, Consumer Protection and Environment; and Ways and Means.
80th General Assembly – State Budget Control; Constitutional Amendments and Reorganization; Education (vice chairwoman); Public Health, Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, Welfare, Medicaid and Consumer Protection; Ways and Means; and State Health Care (chairwoman).
81st General Assembly – Ways and Means (vice chairwoman); Constitutional Amendments and Reorganization; Criminal Jurisprudence; Education; and Public Health, Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, Welfare, Medicaid and Consumer Protection.
82nd General Assembly – Human Resources (chairwoman); Constitutional Amendments and Reorganization; Education; and Ways and Means. |
Harriett Woods served the people of the 13th District (part of St. Louis County). Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she attended the University of Chicago College and the University of Michigan where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy. Senator Woods was a newspaper reporter and television producer in St. Louis. She was elected to the Senate in 1976, and re-elected in 1980. Senator Woods went on to serve as the 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Missouri; the state’s first, and currently only, female in this leadership position. (Democrat)
Official Manual of the State of Missouri: 1983-1984
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