Vivian Flowers | |
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Mayor-elect of Pine Bluff | |
Assuming office TBD | |
Succeeding | Shirley Washington |
Member of the ArkansasHouseofRepresentatives from the 65th district | |
Assumed office January,2014 | |
Preceded by | Delia Haak |
Personal details | |
Political party | Democratic |
Education | University of Arkansas at Little Rock (BA,MA) |
Vivian Flowers is an American politician who is the mayor of Pine Bluff,Arkansas. She serves in the Arkansas House of Representatives and is a Democrat. She is a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. [1] She lives in Pine Bluff,Arkansas. [1]
She made a statement for the 50th anniversary of the Arkansas ACLU applauding its work and noting "Our rights are under attack." [2]
She and another politician who is African American were involved in an incident where police were called and a complaint filed in 2020. She has called for various police reforms after the incident. [3] She has represented Districts 17 and 65 in the Arkansas House since 2015. [4]
Flowers did not run for re-election to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2024,opting instead to run for mayor of Pine Bluff,Arkansas. [5] Flowers defeated incumbent mayor Shirley Washington in the Democratic primary runoff in April 2024, [6] and defeated Libertarian John Fenley in the general election on November 5,2024. [7]