Arlene Reid Wohlgemuth | |
State House: | Texas |
District: | 58th |
Term Start: | 1995 |
Term End: | 2005 |
Preceded: | Bernard Erickson |
Succeeded: | Rob Orr |
Birth Date: | 16 July 1947 |
Birth Place: | Midland, Texas, U.S. |
Residence: | Burleson, Johnson County, Texas |
Spouse: | Mikeal Wohlgemuth |
Children: | 2 |
Alma Mater: | Texas Tech University (1965–1967) |
Occupation: | Executive director of Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin |
Arlene Reid Wohlgemuth (born July 16, 1947) is a former Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 58 in Johnson and Bosque counties south of Fort Worth, Texas.
Wohlgemuth served in the Seventy-fourth through Seventy-eighth Texas Legislatures. In 1997, she became involved in what was called the "Memorial Day Massacre." She raised a point of order that killed fifty-two proposed bills by preventing them from coming up for a vote before the end of the legislative session. Wohlgemuth was angry that opposition legislators had used a similar procedure the week before to prevent a vote on a proposal supported by Wohlgemuth to require parental notification if a minor procures an abortion.[1]