Midura is a New Orleans native who grew up in the Lakeview section of the city, specifically Lakewood South.

She was graduated from Isidore Newman School in 1984 and spent the next four years at Georgetown University.

Midura plays piano at a classical level and runs for exercise, participating in the 2004 New Orleans Mardi Gras Marathon.

In the first round of 2008 Democratic Party primary election voting, she supported fellow Council member James Carter for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district over incumbent Democrat William J. Jefferson in an election cycle ultimately won by Republican Joseph Cao.

[3] In addition to Guidry, others who ran to succeed Midura were Republicans Virginia Blanque and former councilman Jay Batt.