Our other heroine of the week: Texas Senator Leticia Van de Putte
Leticia R. San Miguel Van de Putte (born 6 December 1954) is a Democratic member of the Texas Senate representing the 26th District. She was previously a member of the Texas House of Representatives.
Family
Van de Putte was born in Tacoma, Washington, and raised in San Antonio, where she currently lives with her husband, Henry P. "Pete" Van De Putte Jr. Van de Putte has six children and six grandchildren.
Education
Senator Van de Putte was a Kellogg Fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1993. She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas at Austin, College of Pharmacy, and she is a 1973 graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School (San Antonio, Texas).
Career before politics
She was and still is a practicing pharmacist.
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More here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leticia_R._Van_de_Putte
An additional bio page, here:
http://www.vandeputte.senate.state.tx.us/