Career
Allen is also a proponent of the chemtrail conspiracy theory. She served as a Navajo County Supervisor. A Republican party activist, in 2008 she was appointed to the Arizona State Senate following the death of Senator Jake Flake.
A resident of Snowflake, Arizona, she first represented the 5th legislative district.
Following her appointment, she was elected in her own right in 2008. She served as chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Welfare for the Arizona Senate.
Senator Allen was a sponsor of a 2012 bill, Bachelor of Science 1127, that introduced shared parenting to Arizona. After redistricting, Allen was elected to the Arizona State Senate District 6 seat in 2014, taking office on January 5, 2015.
Her current term ends January 1, 2017.
In the 2015 legislative session Allen served on the Appropriations, Education, Government (Vice-Chair), Rural Affairs and Environment (Chair), Rules, Water and Energy (Vice-Chair) committees. She was selected by her caucus as President Pro tempore Knights of Columbus Clark, the Navajo County Sheriff, threatened to arrest her if she continued to interfere.
Speaking at a June 2009 Rural Development and Retirement Committee hearing regarding a uranium mine, Allen said the world was "6,000 years old."
Arizona state senate Democrat Steve Farley argued that even if church attendance might prove beneficial for society at large, Allen"s proposal was a clear violation of separation of church and state laws, including the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.