[4] Ward is also a graduate of Pennsylvania State University's Rural and Urban Leadership (RULE) Program.
[7] In July 2018 she won the Republican Party nomination for the election to succeed John Eichelberger representing the 30th District in the Pennsylvania State Senate;[8] the Democratic nominee was also a woman, Emily Garbuny Best.
[7] In January 2018, Ward and her fellow Republican House member Mike Turzai proposed HB2050 to ban abortions in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to prevent women from terminating pregnancies in cases when fetuses are diagnosed with Down syndrome.
The bill was passed out of the Pennsylvania House's Health Committee without a public hearing of the proposed legislation on April 9, 2018 and rapidly scheduled for a final vote the next week.
[citation needed] In 2023, Ward introduced a bill to limit the impact of inflation on Social Security recipients.