Coleman is among the record number of women, black and LGBTQ lawmakers serving in Missouri Legislature
Missouri’s 2021 legislative session will be barrier breaking. The number of women serving is at an all-time high with 52 female lawmakers. It will have the most ever Black lawmakers serving with 25. There will be five openly LGBTQ lawmakers — which is believed to be another record. And the first Asian American woman was elected to the Legislature. It’s a long way from the historic firsts achieved roughly a century ago, when Walthall Moore, a Republican from St. Louis, became Missouri’s first Black state lawmaker in 1920 and two years later in 1922, when Sarah Lucille Turner and Mel...
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