She represented District 27, which includes parts of her native Lake Charles and the surrounding cities of Sulphur and Westlake.

In 1974, Mount obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from McNeese State University in Lake Charles.

[4] She owned a small business and worked as a real estate agent and pharmaceutical representative for Lederle Laboratories.

This includes bills intended to identify sex offenders and enact term limits for various boards and commissions.

Her major Republican opponent was Charles Boustany, a retired heart surgeon from Lafayette, who ran on a platform of preventing tax increases and passing a new energy bill.

[32] Polls taken in late October had shown Boustany, Cravins and Mount statistically tied, and the election was hotly contested.

[36] Mount criticized Boustany for favoring the privatization of social security, an unpopular position in Louisiana, and as distant from the interests of individual voters.

[39] Cravins prepared a suit in federal court claiming that the state Democratic Party violated the Voting Rights Act.

[41] Another detriment for Mount mentioned was the strong support for George W. Bush in the presidential election against John Kerry in the district, which he carried by about 60 percent of the vote.

[42] When Mount left the Senate in 2012, she was succeeded by a Democrat-turned-Republican, former State Representative Ronnie Johns of Sulphur, who ran unopposed for the open seat.

[43] Victory hence went to the acting assessor, Wendy Curphy Aguillard, an Independent who led the primary balloting with 17,208 votes (48.9 percent).