19 Facts About Diane Black

Diane Lynn Black is an American politician who served as a US Representative for from January 3,2011, to January 3,2019.

Diane Black unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination in the 2018 Tennessee gubernatorial election.

Diane Black worked as a registered nurse until she ran for the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1998.

Diane Black was the Assistant Floor Leader of the Senate Republican Caucus, a member of the Senate Government Operations Committee, and the Vice-Chairwoman of the Senate General Welfare, Health, and Human Resources Committee.

Diane Black was elected the Tennessee Senate Republican Caucus Chairwoman in 2006.

Diane Black said the e-mail did not represent her views, and that the reprimand of her aide was in keeping with the legislator's human resource policy for e-mail guideline violations.

Diane Black made appearances for Romney in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and in various cable news interviews.

Diane Black has been a member of the following committees: Committee on the Budget, Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources, Tea Party Caucus, Republican Study Committee, and the United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus.

In October 2015, Diane Black was named to serve on the Select Investigative Panel on Planned Parenthood.

In March 2018, the Tennessean reported that Diane Black had missed over 50 votes in the US House, the most out of any member of the Tennessee delegation.

Diane Black lost to Bill Lee in the Republican primary on August 2,2018.

Diane Black supported the Trump administration's repeal of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan.

Diane Black championed a loophole which allowed one trucking company to skirt emissions rules, allowing the firm to produce trucks that emit 40 to 55 times the air pollutants of other new trucks.

Diane Black later appealed to the Trump administration's EPA head, Scott Pruitt, to protect the loophole, which he did.

In May 2018, Diane Black said that pornography was "a big part of the root cause" of school shootings.

Diane Black said that school shootings were rising due to the "deterioration of the family," mental illness, and violent movies.

Since 1980, Diane Black has been married to David Black.

Diane Black married her high school sweetheart shortly after graduating, but he struggled with alcoholism and abruptly abandoned the family when she was pregnant with her third child.

In 2013 financial disclosure forms, Diane Black listed 115 assets jointly held with her husband.