[4] She held various jobs while in Pinellas County, including as a teacher, a law clerk and legal secretary and a department manager for an auto finance company.

[1][6] She led a legal effort to halt construction of Interstate 275 in St. Petersburg until an environmental impact statement was commissioned.

[5] After the election, she prefiled two dozen bills before the opening of the 1977 legislative session, one of which would have required auto inspectors to have a "pleasant disposition".

[1] She was actively involved in environmental issues, having opposed local dredge-and-fill efforts before being elected to the legislature.

[8] In the 1980 legislative session, Sample opposed a bill to criminalize marital rape, the only female representative to do so.

[1] Sample died on September 1, 2002, at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.