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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Laura Miller |
| Address |
Dallas, Texas , United States |
| Email | lauramiller@lauramiller.com |
| Website | [Link] |
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November 18, 1958
(65 years)
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| Contributor | Eric |
| Last Modifed | McCord 2014
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| Info | Laura Miller was elected as the Mayor of Dallas on February 16, 2002, following a run-off campaign required by the first election held in January 2002.
Laura was a three-term Dallas City Council member representing Oak Cliff and Southwest Dallas since 1998, and tireless advocate for improved basic services like better roads, more parks and stricter code enforcement.
As a council member, she spearheaded the strengthening of the City�s Code of Ethics and the creation of the City Ethics Commission.
She also led the effort to raise $100,000 from private citizens and law enforcement associations to save four inner-city public swimming pools slated for closure by the city.
Laura initiated the addition of $750,000 to the annual maintenance budget of the City Parks Department, and worked to establish citywide alley maintenance crews.
She raised $110,000 from private Dallas corporations to design the blueprint for the first Trinity River economic development project for the Southern Sector.
Before being elected to the Dallas City Council in 1998, Laura spent six years as a columnist and investigative reporter for the Dallas Observer, an award-winning alternative weekly paper owned by Phoenix-based New Times, Inc., which has six other weeklies in major markets.
Prior to joining the Observer in October 1991, Laura spent two years as a columnist and writer-at-large for D Magazine, the city magazine of Dallas. Before that, she was a metro columnist for the Dallas Times Herald, where she was hired after beginning her column-writing career in 1986 at The New York Daily News.
From 1981-1986, Laura worked as a staff writer at The Miami Herald and The Dallas Morning News. In 1982 Laura traveled through Europe as a freelance foreign correspondent for both The Miami Herald and The Dallas Morning News; she covered, among other things, the Falklands War from England and Grace Kelly�s funeral from Monaco.
Laura has won numerous awards for her weekly columns and in-depth investigative reporting. Her honors included the 1995 H.L. Mencken Writing Award, awarded annually by The Baltimore Sun to one newspaper columnist in America; six Dallas Press Club Katie Awards; two Texas Headliners Awards; two Dallas Bar Association Philbin Awards; and a Certificate of Merit from the American Bar Association.
She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 18, 1958 and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Laura is married to a Dallas attorney, state Representative Steven Wolens. They have two daughters, Alex and Lily, and a son Maxwell.
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