Full Name:
Mary Groves Bland
Gender:
Female
Family:
Widowed; 4 Children: Pamela, Rodney, Craig, and Arletha
Birth Date:
01/24/1936
Birth Place:
Kansas City, MO
Home City:
Kansas City, MO
Religion:
United Methodist
Certificate of community relations, Ottawa University
R. T. Cole High School, 1954
Vice President, National Black Cacus of State Legislators, 1989-present
Senator, Missouri State Senate, 1998-2004
Experience, Missouri State House of Reprentatives, District 43, 1981-1998
Chair, Special Ocmmunity Committee on Kansas City School District
Honary Chair, State Wide Minority Health Cmmittee
Certified, Community Consultant, Ottwa University
Certified, Executive Policy Planning, Harvard University
Experience, Freelance Community Personnel Consultant
Certified, Personal Management, Ottwa Univesity
Certified, Property Management, Ottwa University
Experience, Clymer Center
National Black Caucus of State Legislators, Executive Board
Freedom, Inc., Executive Board
Experience, Niles Home For Childern
Experience, Southeast Neighborhood Coalition
Experience, St. James Paseo United Methodist Church
Experience, Town Fork Creek Neighborhood Association
Experience, US Commission on Civil Rights
Missouri Legislative Black Caucus, past Chair