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Minner, Ruth Ann

CANDIDATE DETAILS

Affiliation


	2005-01-01

Name

Ruth Ann Minner

Address

Milford, Delaware , United States

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Website

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Born

January 17, 1935

Died

November 04, 2021 (86 years)

Contributor

Barack O-blame-a

Last Modifed

Mr. Matt
Nov 05, 2021 10:53am

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Caucasian - Widowed - Methodist - Straight -

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Ruth Ann Minner's election as Delaware's first woman governor is the latest milestone in a remarkable journey - a testament to hard work and determination and a true Delaware story.

As Governor, Ruth Ann is working to improve our schools, strengthen and make safe our families, foster economic development, protect our environment and make Delaware more livable, and run the state government responsibly and well. With the help of the General Assembly, dedicated state employees and thousands of citizens, she has made significant strides in each of these areas as well as others:

? Legislation banning smoking in virtually all indoor public places (S.B. 99);

? Emergency Health Powers legislation expanding the amount of health information the state collects, clarifying the chain of command in the event of a biological or chemical attack, and ensuring the protection of civil liberties in such an attack (H.S. 1 to H.B. 377);

? Expanding the crime of terroristic threatening to anthrax-type hoaxes and heightening criminal penalties for false threats (S.B. 288);

? Ensuring that state employees who are called to active duty military service under Operation Enduring Freedom do not lose pay during their service (S.B. 272);

? Allowing the state to fill temporary vacancies left by employees called to active duty with retirees who do not require training (S.B. 439);

? Collecting information about work and residential history from cancer victims in order to better study any environmental causes of cancer (S.B. 372);

? Regulating, for the first time, aboveground storage tanks, like the one that caused the death of a worker at Motiva in Delaware City in July 2001 (S.S. 1 to S.B. 273)

? Raising the penalties for those who are convicted of drunken driving more than once (H.B. 296);

? Delawareans no longer have to pay out of their pocket if they reasonably go out of their HMO network;

? Residents are now notified with 24 hours when there is an environmental accident in their community;

? The first step toward curbing sprawl in our state has been taken by asking cities and towns to plan for growth, to grow only where they plan and by continuing to preserve farmland and open space;

? The Department of Technology and Information has been created allowing highly-skilled people to be hired and;

? First State children have been put first by improving foster care and child safety.

As Lieutenant Governor from 1993 to 2001, Ruth Ann led a comprehensive review of state government, spearheading changes in state agencies that made them more efficient and customer-friendly. As chair of the Interagency Council on Adult Literacy, she led the expansion of Delaware's adult education network. And she worked to engage parents in their children's schools, a key component to educational success.

Ruth Ann's service in the Delaware General Assembly is marked with similar successes. As a senator from 1982 to 1992, her most far-reaching accomplishment was the Delaware Land and Water Conservation Act. Over 30,000 acres of valuable land have been preserved as a result of Ruth Ann's vision and desire to save land for future generations. While a state representative from 1974 to 1982, Ruth Ann's leadership was quickly recognized. She served as House Majority Whip and as chair of the Bond Bill Committee.

But it was as an attach頡nd clerk in the state House of Representatives and later as receptionist to Governor Sherman Tribbitt that Ruth Ann got her start in government.

Ruth Ann's determination has seen her through personal as well as political hardships. Born and a raised on small farm near Milford, Ruth Ann left high school at age 16 to help support her parents and siblings. She married Frank Ingram and together they raised three sons, Frank Jr., Wayne and Gary. Suddenly widowed at age 32, Ruth Ann was left a single parent with a family to raise. She returned to school - earning her general equivalency degree and attending college - and worked two jobs. Later, with her second husband, Roger Minner, Ruth Ann built a successful family towing business. Roger succumbed to cancer in 1991. The business is now owned by two of her sons.

Ruth Ann's greatest achievement and joy is her family - her sons, her daughters-in-law, her seven grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

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