Sharon Weston Broome
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Mayor-President of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish |
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Assumed office January 2, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Melvin "Kip" Holden |
| Louisiana State Senate President Pro Tempore |
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In office January 14, 2008 – January 11, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Diana Bajoie |
| Succeeded by | Gerald Long |
| Member of the Louisiana Senate from the 15th district | |
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In office January 12, 2004 – January 11, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Melvin "Kip" Holden |
| Succeeded by | Regina Barrow |
| Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from the 29th district |
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In office January 13, 1992 – January 12, 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Clyde Kimball |
| Succeeded by | Regina Barrow |
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| Born | October 1956 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Marvin Broome |
| Residence | Baton Rouge |
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University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, Regent University |
| Occupation |
Legislator Communications |
| Religion | Baptist |
Sharon Weston Broome (born October 1956) is the current Mayor-President of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and is a member of the Democratic Party. She was the first African-American woman to be in the Louisiana State Senate for District 15, in which she held her position from 2004 to 2016. She was elected Mayor-President of Baton Rouge on December 10, 2016, and was sworn into office on January 2, 2017.
Her state senatorial predecessor, Democrat Kip Holden, is the departing Baton Rouge Mayor-President who ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 24, 2015. Victory went instead to the Republican Billy Nungesser. From 2008 to 2016, Broome was the President Pro Tempore of the state Senate. In 2011, she was elected to her second full Senate term without opposition.
From 1992 to 2004, Broome was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 29. She was succeeded by her legislative assistant, Regina Barrow. She was elected Speaker Pro Tempore of the House, the first woman to have held that position. Broome is hence the first woman to serve in the number-two leadership position in both legislative chambers.
In 2002, Representative Broome introduced House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 74 which condemned "Darwinism" as justifying racism and Nazism. The bill was amended to remove allusions to Darwin and passed. In 2012, sponsored a bill requiring doctors to let a woman hear the heartbeat of a fetus (if present) before performing an abortion. The bill was signed into law by Governor Bobby Jindal on June 8, 2012.
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