State Sen. Stephanie Flowers of Pine Bluff was honored with a Champion of Rural Arkansas award at a reception in North Little Rock Friday night.
Flowers was among honorees recognized by the Rural Community Alliance, a statewide nonprofit organization that serves rural schools and communities. Arkansas Electric Cooperatives co-sponsored the event.
Elected to the Senate in 2010, Flowers serves District 25, which includes parts of Arkansas, Desha, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe, and Phillips counties. She is chair of the Senate Children and Youth Committee and the Arkansas Legislative Council-Charitable, Penal, and Correctional Institutions. She is vice chair of the Desegregation Litigation Oversight Subcommittee and Assistant Pro Tempore.
Flowers is a member of the Southern Legislative Conference, the National Conference of State Legislators, and the Council of State Governments. She has been active with the Democrat Party at the local, state, and national levels.
Flowers is a practicing attorney licensed in Texas and Arkansas. Once a deputy prosecutor in Jefferson County Juvenile
Court, she has been in private practice for over 30 years. A native of Pine Bluff, she has one son,
Zeri.