Priscilla Dunn | |
State Senate: | Alabama |
State: | Alabama |
District: | 19th |
Term Start: | June 30, 2009 |
Term End: | November 10, 2022 |
Predecessor: | Edward McClain |
Successor: | Merika Coleman |
Office2: | Member of the Alabama House of Representatives |
Term Start2: | 1998 |
Term End2: | June 30, 2009 |
Party: | Democratic |
Birth Date: | 8 October 1943 |
Alma Mater: | Alabama State University University of Montevallo |
Occupation: | Homeless Education Coordinator, Politician |
Spouse: | Grover Dunn |
Children: | Karen Dunn |
Nationality: | American |
Residence: | Bessemer, Alabama, U.S. |
Priscilla Dunn (born October 8, 1943) is an American politician who was a member of the Alabama Senate from 2009 to 2022 as a member of the Democratic Party.[1]
Dunn is married to her husband, Grover, and has one daughter, Karen. She received her Bachelor of Science from Alabama State University and her Master of Arts from the University of Montevallo.[2]
From 1998 until 2009 she was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives. Dunn has been a member of the Alabama Senate since a special election was called in 2009. In April 2015 work in the Senate slowed due to a resolution opposing efforts to expand Medicaid.[3] In August 2015 a Senate committee which Dunn was a part of put a ban on selling tissue from aborted fetuses. Dunn cast the sole vote against the ban.[4]