Susan Parker | |
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37th Auditor of Alabama | |
In office January 18, 1999 –January 20, 2003 | |
Governor | Don Siegelman |
Preceded by | Pat Duncan |
Succeeded by | Beth Chapman |
Personal details | |
Born | Eva,Alabama,U.S. | September 30,1955
Political party | Democratic |
Education | Calhoun Community College Athens State University (BS) University of Alabama (MA,PhD) |
Susan D. Parker (born September 30,1955) is an American Democratic politician from Alabama. A resident of Rogersville,Parker was elected Alabama State Auditor in 1998 and served until 2002. [1]
Susan Parker was born on September 30,1955,in Eva,Alabama. [2]
Parker received an AS from Calhoun Community College in 1975 [2] (a977),a BS from Athens State College and an MA from the University of Alabama in 1977,and a Ph.D.,in Higher Education Administration of Higher Education from the University of Alabama in 1985. She completed a program of alternate studies at Memphis Theological Seminary in 2014.
Parker was an Administrator,Calhoun Community College,1972–1988, [2] Chief Development Officer/Assistant to the President,Athens State College,1988–1996,and President,Parker Plus Consulting,1996–1998,Ordained as a minister by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,April,2014,Interim President,Memphis Theological Seminary 2018-2019
Parker was elected as Alabama State Auditor in 1998. [3] She did not seek reelection in 2002,and was succeeded in office by Republican Beth Chapman.
In 2002 Parker was the first woman in Alabama to be nominated for a Senate seat when she defeated Julian L. McPhillips in the Democratic primary. [1] Commentators drew attention to the perceived sexism of McPhillips who questioned whether Parker was fit to consider family issues because she had no children of her own. [4] [5] She lost the general election to incumbent Republican Senator Jeff Sessions,winning 40% of votes against Sessions' 59%. In 2003,Parker campaigned for Amendment 1 to the Alabama Constitution,a referendum which proposed,inter alia,new sources of funding for public education,a measure that was defeated at the polls. . [3] [6]
In 2006,Parker defeated former state Representative Perry Hooper Jr.,of Montgomery for the Place 2 position on the Alabama Public Service Commission. Though Hooper had defeated former state Senator John Amari of Trussville in the Republican primary,he lost to Parker in the general election. [1]
She had been mentioned as a possible candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Alabama in the 2010 election,but declined and instead lost her reelection bid for the Public Service Commission to Republican Terry L. Dunn. [7]
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