Senator Lena Taylor is serving her third term in the Wisconsin State Senate, representing the 4th Senate District, including all of Shorewood, parts of Milwaukee, Glendale, and Wauwatosa. First elected to political office in 2003 in the Wisconsin Assembly, Lena Taylor fights unrelentingly for her constituents’ rights. Taylor won a special election for a seat in the State Assembly and soon after was elected to the State Senate. Senator Taylor is the thousandth senator in the state of Wisconsin, twentieth woman, fifth African American, and only the second African American woman to serve in the State Senate.