Regina Ashford Barrow | |
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Louisiana State Representative for District 29 (East Baton Rouge Parish) |
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In office 2005 – January 11, 2016 |
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Preceded by | Sharon Weston Broome |
Succeeded by | Ronnie Edwards |
Louisiana State Senator for District 15 (East Baton Rouge Parish) |
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Assumed office January 11, 2016 |
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Preceded by | Sharon Weston Broome |
Personal details | |
Born | Wilkinson County, Mississippi, USA |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | James Garnett Barrow, Sr. |
Children |
Shanrika Barrow |
Residence | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA |
Alma mater | Baton Rouge School of Computers |
Occupation | Businesswoman |
Shanrika Barrow
Regina Ashford Barrow (born June 1966) is an African-American Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate for District 15 in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. She assumed this position on January 11, 2016. In the primary election held on October 24, 2015, she defeated outgoing District 63 State Representative Dalton W. Honoré, another Democrat, for the right to succeed the term-limited state Senator Sharon Weston Broome.
From 2005 to 2016, Barrow was the state representative for District 29 in East and West Baton Rouge parishes. Louisiana.
A native of Wilkinson County in southwestern Mississippi, Barrow holds an Associate of Arts degree from the Baton Rouge School of Computers. She is an administrative assistant at the social services firm, Inner Reflections in Baton Rouge. She resides in North Baton Rouge with her husband, James Garnett Barrow, Sr. (born July 1964). The couple has two children, Shanrika and James, Jr.
She is a former president of the Parent-Teacher Association at Glen Oaks High School and the Louisiana New School Academy, both in Baton Rouge. She is a former vice-president for programs for the Camp Fire Boys and Girls. She is director of the senior care ministry at the North Boulevard Macedonia Church in Baton Rouge.