Millender-McDonald, Juanita, 1938-2007

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Millender-McDonald, Juanita, 1938-2007

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McDonald, Juanita Millender-, 1938-2007

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Millender, Juanita, 1938-2007

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Juanita Millender-McDonald (September 7, 1938 – April 22, 2007) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1996 until her death in 2007. She was a member of the Democratic Party.

Millender-McDonald was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She was educated at Los Angeles Harbor College; at the University of Redlands, from which she received a business degree; and at California State University, Los Angeles, from which she earned a masters in educational administration; and the University of Southern California, from which she completed her doctorate in public administration. She worked as a teacher, a textbook editor, and later as director of a nonprofit organization working for gender issues. She was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Millender-McDonald served as a member of the City Council of Carson, California and was a member of the California State Assembly (after beating two sitting incumbent Democrats that had been reapportioned into the same Carson based assembly district in 1992) before entering the House. She was first elected to the House in a March 1996 special election to replace Congressman Walter Tucker, who resigned due to corruption charges and was later sentenced to 27 months in prison. While she won a difficult nine-candidate primary in her first election run, she did not face any serious opposition in any of her reelection campaigns.

Within a week of her requesting a leave of absence to deal with her illness, on April 22, 2007, Millender-McDonald died in hospice care, succumbing to colon cancer at the age of 68 at her home in Carson, California. She left a husband, James McDonald, Jr., and five adult children.

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https://viaf.org/viaf/19074122

https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2004064476

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https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q461974

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African American leaders

African American leadership

African American legislatures

African American politicians

African American women

AIDS (Disease)

California. Legislature

Congressional Black Caucus

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HIV infections

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Americans

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Carson

CA, US

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Los Angeles

CA, US

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Birmingham

AL, US

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Wilmington

CA, US

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Redlands

CA, US

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