Melanie Sojourner
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Melanie Sojourner | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Mississippi Senate from the 37th district | |
| In office January 7, 2020 – January 2, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Bob Dearing |
| Succeeded by | Albert Butler (redistricting) |
| In office January 3, 2012 – January 5, 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Bob Dearing |
| Succeeded by | Bob Dearing |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 5, 1968 Centreville, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Party | Republican |
| Relations | Albert Boyd Sojourner (great-grandfather) |
| Alma mater | Louisiana State University |
| Website | www |
Melanie Sojourner (born January 5, 1968) is an American politician from the state of Mississippi.[1] She served in the Mississippi State Senate, representing the 37th district. She is a member of the Republican Party.[2]
She was born in Centreville, Mississippi, and was raised in Kingston, Mississippi.[3] She is the great-granddaughter of Albert Boyd Sojourner, who was in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1916.[3]
She attended Adams County Christian School, which was founded as a segregation academy and uses the Confederate flag as its symbol, and has enrolled her daughter there.[4] She opposed the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the Flag of Mississippi.[5]
Sojourner graduated from Louisiana State University. She then worked for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association for eight years, and then as a 4-H associate for Mississippi State University.[6]
Sojourner defeated Bob Dearing in the 2011 elections to serve in the State Senate.[7] She served as the campaign manager for Chris McDaniel's 2014 U.S. Senate campaign.[8] Sojourner lost her reelection bid to Dearing in the 2015 elections.[9] She was elected back to the Senate in the 2019 elections.[10]
Sojourner's legislative district was effectively dismantled during 2022 redistricting and she ultimately did not seek re-election to the Senate in 2023.[11]
