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Diana E. Bajoie (born February 8, 1948) is the director of community relations for the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans and a Democratic〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Click Diana Bajoie, February 1948 )〕 former member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature. In 2004, she became the first woman to take the oath as the President Pro Tempore of the Louisiana State Senate.〔 ==Political life== Bajoie received a bachelor's degree in political science from historically black Southern University in Baton Rouge.〔 At the age of twenty-seven, she was initially elected in 1975 to the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 91 in her native New Orleans. At the time, the state instituted its unique nonpartisan blanket primary. In her first term, she was the only woman among the 105 House members. Early in 1991, she left the House〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-Current )〕 after becoming the first black female ever elected to the Louisiana State Senate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Diana E. Bajoie: 2006 Honoree )〕 This was twenty-five years after Barbara Jordan achieved the same distinction in neighboring Texas. Bajoie's Senate service began in District 5 in February 1991, when she won a special election to succeed African-American state Senator-turned-U.S. Representative William J. Jefferson. Bajoie polled 53 percent of the vote over four opponents from both parties in a low-turnout contest.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Results for Election Date: 2/23/1991 )〕 She held the Senate seat until 2008, when she was term-limited by Louisiana law.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2011 )〕 As a legislator, Bajoie was an advocate for school-based health clinics. She worked to establish the Minority Health Care Commission and sought to expand health care coverage for citizens with mental disorders.〔 She worked to establish the Louisiana State Museum on Civil Rights as well as the expansion and renaming of the New Orleans Convention Center to honor Ernest Morial, who was elected in 1978 as the first black mayor of New Orleans. She was a founder and former chair of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus and the Louisiana Legislative Women’s Caucus. She is a former president of the National Organization of Black Elected Legislative Women. She advises young people to be "civic-minded" and to project the "needs of the community at the center of everything ...."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Diana Bajoie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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