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Alma Wheeler-Smith
(Michigan State Senator)
 Campaign address:
P.O. Box 7738
Ann Arbor, MI 48107
Telephone:
866-486-2562
Fax:
517-327-4727
Email:
Not Published
Website:
http://www.Alma2002.com/
Bio:
Alma Wheeler Smith is serving her second term in the Michigan Senate. She represents the 18th Senatorial District which
encompasses most of Washtenaw County and includes the cities of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti.
Smith is the vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the
first woman to hold a leadership position on that prestigious committee. She serves on the Higher Education, Community Health, Department of
Environmental Quality and Corrections subcommittees. Senator Smith also serves on the Senate Fiscal Agency Governing Board.
In her first term, Smith passed legislation regulating personal protection
orders between juveniles and their parents and guardians. She guided into law a 50 bill technical package and one constitutional amendment
which replaced the term "handicap" with the term "disability," bringing Michigan into conformity with federal terminology. Smith has had key
budget amendments on health care and environment adopted into law. The quality of her legislative work has been recognized by the Michigan
Association of Local Public Health, the Michigan Secondary Reading Interest Council, the Pro-Choice Network and several local associations in Washtenaw County.
Smith has held two other elected offices, trustee for the South Lyon School Board (1984-1992) and commissioner of the Washtenaw County
Board of Commissioners (1992-1994). During that time, she worked for Senator Lana Pollack as her legislative coordinator.
Smith was born in 1941 in Columbia, South Carolina and moved with her family to Ann Arbor in 1943. She graduated from St. Thomas High
School (Gabriel Richard) in Ann Arbor in 1959 and received her B.A. in Journalism from the University of Michigan. A Washtenaw County resident for 56 years, Alma now shares her old farm house in Salem
Township with three dogs and three cats; the remaining domesticated pet menagerie left behind by three, now adult, children.
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