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12 Facts About Shelia Stubbs

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Shelia Renee Stubbs is an American pastor, former probation and parole agent, and Democratic politician from Madison, Wisconsin.

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Shelia Stubbs is a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the south side of the city of Madison since 2019.

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Shelia Stubbs is the first African American to represent Dane County in the Wisconsin Legislature.

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Shelia Stubbs previously served 16 years as a member of the Dane County Board of Supervisors, and was the only African American member from 2006 to 2020.

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Shelia Stubbs was born Shelia Renee Hoskins in Camden, Arkansas, in February 1971.

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Shelia Stubbs graduated from Beloit Memorial High School and attended Tougaloo College, earning a baccalaureate degree in political science.

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Shelia Stubbs went on to study at Mount Senario College, earning a second baccalaureate, in criminal justice management, and then earned a master's in management at Milwaukee's Cardinal Stritch University.

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Shelia Stubbs has been a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority since April 2003.

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Shelia Stubbs worked for eight years as a probation and parole agent with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections before first being elected to the Dane County Board of Supervisors in 2006.

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Democratic incumbent Terese Berceau announced on February 2,2018, that she would not be running for re-election from the 77th Assembly district, and Stubbs announced her own candidacy the same day.

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Shelia Stubbs is the daughter of Linda Hoskins, a former president of the Madison chapter of the NAACP.

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The Shelia Stubbs' are co-founders of End Time Ministries International Church in Madison; they have one school-age daughter.