Education
Flowers graduated from Philander Smith College in Little Rock and the Thurgood Marshall School of Law, then known as Texas Southern University School of Law, in Houston, Texas.
Flowers graduated from Philander Smith College in Little Rock and the Thurgood Marshall School of Law, then known as Texas Southern University School of Law, in Houston, Texas.
Foreign the state representative from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, see Vivian Flowers. Flowers started in politics when elected in 2004 to the District 17 seat in the Arkansas House of Representatives. She became active in politics after returning to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where she joined the Democratic Party and established a private law practice.
2006 Flowers was unopposed for both the 2006 Democratic primary and the November 7 general election.
2008 Flowers was unopposed for both the May 20, 2008 primary and the November 4 general election. 2012 Redistricted to District 25.
She swept the November 6, 2012 general election with 19,955 votes (828 percent) against Libertarian candidate David Dinwiddie.
2004 Initially in State House District 17. Flowers won the 2004 Democratic primary and ran unopposed for the November 2, 2004 general election. 2010 With District 5 Senator Hank Wilkins running for the House District 17 seat, Flowers ran for the open District 5 State Senate seat, won the May 18, 2010 Democratic primary with 4,798 votes (562 percent) and was unopposed for the November 2, 2010 general election. Following the retirement of state Senator Percy Malone, Flowers won the May 22, 2012 Democratic priamry with 4,718 votes (585 percent) against fellow African-American state Representative Efrem Elliott.