Former Oklahoma State Senator Maxine Horner (D-Tulsa) died unexpectedly in her home on February 7. She was 88. Senator Horner held the District 11 seat from 1986 until she was term-limited in 2004. She was one of the first two Black women to serve in the Oklahoma Senate, and was the Senate author of the groundbreaking commission created in 1997 to study the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. During the 18 years she served in the Legislature she earned a 7% cumulative average on the Oklahoma Conservative Index.
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