Adams, Sandy, 1956-

Sandra Adams (born December 14, 1956) is an American law enforcement official and politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 24th congressional district from 2011 to 2013.

Born Sandra Kay Daniels into a Navy family in Wyandotte, Michigan, her family settled in Florida after her father's retrirement from the Navy in 1964. She attended high school in Florida but dropped out at 17 to join the United States Air Force, serving from 1974 to 1975. In the service, she met and married her first husband. Earning a high school equivalency degree in 1983, she began working in the Orange County, Florida sheriff’s department in 1985. She met and married a co-worker, Deputy Sheriff Frank Seton, who died in a helicopter accident during a high-speed chase in 1989. Adams married Circuit Judge John H. Adams in 2001, the year after earning a BA from Columbia College’s satellite campus in Orlando, Florida, majoring in criminal justice administration. In the sheriff ’s office, Adams rose from investigator to deputy sheriff. She eventually became active in victims’ rights organizations and ended her 17-year law-enforcement career when she won a seat as a Republican in the Florida house of representatives.

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