Background
Bray was born in Lubbock, Texas, and graduated from Southwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in English, and from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a C.A.G.S.
Bray was born in Lubbock, Texas, and graduated from Southwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in English, and from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a C.A.G.S.
Bachelor in English, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas. Master of Education in Counseling and Human Relations, University Massachusetts, Amherst. Graduate woman and power program, Harvard University, Massachusetts.
She has two children, Noel and Kolby. She was a teacher in Colorado and Massachusetts. She has also was a journalist with the San Antonio Express-News and Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, during which time she served as vice-president of the Newspaper Guild"s Local 49.
Bray was first elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1992, and served in that body through 2002, when she was elected to the Missouri State Senate.
She was term-limited out in 2010, when she was replaced by Republican John Lamping. In the Senate, she served on the following committees:
Appropriations
Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment
Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics
Transportation
Ways and Means
Joint Committee on Missouri Health Net
Joint Committee on Transportation Oversight
Joint Committee on Tax Policy
Bray was appointed interim executive director of Consumers Council of Missouri in March 2013.
She was a Democratic member of both the Missouri House of Representatives (1993–2002) and Missouri State Senate (2003–2010).
Married Carl Hoagland. Children: Noel Bray, Kolby Bray.