Ronda Storms
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| Member of the Florida Senate from the 10th district |
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In office 2006–2012 |
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| Preceded by | Tom Lee |
| Succeeded by |
Tom Lee (Redistricted to 24th District in 2012) |
| Constituency | Eastern Hillsborough County, Southeast, Pasco County and Western Polk County |
| Hillsborough County Commission, District 4 |
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In office 1998–2006 |
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| Succeeded by | Al Higginbotham |
| Constituency | Bloomingdale, Brandon, Plant City, Riverview, Sun City Center, Valrico, Zephyrhills |
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September 5, 1965 Des Moines, Iowa |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | David Storms |
| Children | Roxanna Storms Elijah Storms |
| Residence | Valrico, Florida |
| Occupation | educator, attorney |
| Religion | Southern Baptist |
Ronda R. Storms (born Ronda Rehnell Newcomb on September 5, 1965) is an American politician representing her adopted home state of Florida. Affiliated with the Republican Party, she represented the 10th District in the Florida Senate from 2006 to 2012. She decided not to run in 2012 for the new 24th District.
Storms had an eight-year tenure on the Hillsborough County Commission (1998-2006) and advanced a number of controversial issues.
Ronda Newcomb was born in Des Moines, Iowa, into a military family, and moved around often, growing up in Germany, Turkey and Alabama. Spending many formative years in Turkey, she used to be fluent in the Turkish language, but has had "little call for the language recently."
The Newcomb family finally settled in Brandon, Florida when Ronda was 16, and she graduated from Brandon High School in 1983. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English education from the University of South Florida in 1988, as a S.C.A.T.T. honors graduate. For a time, she taught English at Bloomingdale High School in Valrico, Florida, and later went on to pursue her Juris Doctor at the Stetson College of Law in Gulfport, receiving her law degree in 1995 Cum Laude.
She married David Storms in December 1986. They have one daughter, Roxanna (born 1999) and one son, Elijah Gideon (born 2008). They currently reside in her home district in Valrico. Her husband is a deacon at Brandon First Baptist Church, where she has been a member for over 25 years.
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