[1][2][3] She succeeded Democrat Susan Johns, who had previously been the only woman in the state senate.
[3] In 2000, she was the co-chair of the Kentucky Senate's Brain Injury Task Force.
In 2015, she was elected to the city council of Louisville, Kentucky, but did not seek re-election in 2018.
[2] After graduation, she worked as a dental hygienist until 2002 and as a consumer representative for General Electric from 1983 to 1986, while founding CPMC Corrections (a prison inmate phone call service)[4] in 1986 and owning it until 2002.
[5] In 2013, she began working in real estate with RE/MAX and, in 2015,[2] became president of her own lobbying group.