[1] From 1998 until 2009 Dunn was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives.
She was a member of the Alabama Senate from when a special election was called in 2009.
In April 2015 work in the Senate slowed due to a resolution opposing efforts to expand Medicaid.
[2] In August 2015 a Senate committee which Dunn was a part of put a ban on selling tissue from aborted fetuses.
[3] Dunn was married to her husband, Grover, and had one daughter, Karen.