Regina Goodwin
Assistant Minority Floor Leader of the Oklahoma House of Representatives
Assumed office
January 2019
Member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives
from the 73rd district
Assumed office
July 21, 2015
Preceded byKevin Matthews
Personal details
Born (1962-09-22) September 22, 1962 (age 61)
Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic

Regina Goodwin (born September 22, 1962) is an American politician who has served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from the 73rd district since 2015.[1][2]

Early life

Regina Goodwin was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and raised in Tulsa's historic Greenwood District,[3] which is commonly known as Black Wall Street.[4] She is a descendant of a survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre,[5][6][7] and is the daughter of Edward Goodwin, Jr. and the granddaughter of Edward L. Goodwin, both of whom were long time editors of The Oklahoma Eagle, Oklahoma's longest-running Black-owned newspaper.[8][7]

Goodwin graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa in 1980, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Kansas.[4] She completed coursework for her master's degree at Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois.[4]

Oklahoma State Legislature

Goodwin was elected to serve as State Representative, Tulsa House District 73 in a 2015 special election.[9] Goodwin is Assistant Minority Floor Leader and the Chair of the Oklahoma Legislative Black Caucus, which is made of up seven members.[4][10]

Goodwin has worked on issues related to public education, housing, health care, and police reform. In 2019, she highlighted possible instances of excessive use of force by Tulsa police officers,[11] following the 2016 killing of Terrence Crutcher[12] by Tulsa police officer, Betty Shelby[13] and the 2017 Tulsa police killing of Joshua Barre.[14] In 2020, Goodwin and other members of the Black Caucus again called for police reform,[15] when, on June 4, 2020, Tulsa police stopped two African American boys walking down a street and detained them for jaywalking. Police body cam footage showed one officer sitting on one of the boys while holding the back of his neck and pressing his face to the ground.[15][16]

In June 2020, when Donald Trump announced that he would be holding a campaign rally on Juneteenth a few blocks from the Tulsa 1921 race massacre, Goodwin held a press conference with other members of the Black Caucus to register their concerns about heightened racial tensions and increased health risks related to COVID-19.[3] Trump subsequently rescheduled the rally to June 20, 2020.[17] Goodwin called Trump's choice to hold a rally "more provocative than productive."[18][19]

In June 2021, on the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Goodwin and other members of the Black Caucus called for reparations and other measures to ensure that massacre is never repeated.[20]

Goodwin is the author of the following bills that are now law:

Select awards

References

  1. ^ "Regina Goodwin wins House District 73 special election". Tulsaworld.com. 2015-07-15. Retrieved 2019-03-17.
  2. ^ "Representative Regina Goodwin". Okhouse.gov. Retrieved 2019-03-17.
  3. ^ a b "Oklahoma State Rep. Regina Goodwin On Trump's Visit To Tulsa". NPR. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  4. ^ a b c d "Representative Regina Goodwin - Oklahoma House of Representatives". www.okhouse.gov. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  5. ^ "Descendants of Tulsa's 1921 race massacre seek justice as the nation confronts a racist past". CBS58. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  6. ^ Rushmore, Photographs by Joseph; Mason, Gary (2020-07-17). "Nearly a Century After a Tulsa Massacre, the Search for Burial Sites Finally Breaks Ground". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  7. ^ a b "Tulsa, 100 Years Later: Black Wall Street Remembered". Essence. 31 May 2021. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  8. ^ Luckerson, Victor. "Michael Bloomberg's Black Agenda Gets Reviewed on Black Wall Street". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  9. ^ KREHBIEL, RANDY (15 July 2015). "Regina Goodwin wins House District 73 special election". Tulsa World. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  10. ^ "Growing black caucus in Oklahoma Legislature expands its voice". Oklahoman.com. 2019-01-21. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  11. ^ Schlotthauer, Kelsy (17 October 2019). "State Rep. Regina Goodwin questions use of force by Tulsa police officers". Tulsa World. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  12. ^ Max Blau, Jason Morris and Catherine E. Shoichet (20 September 2016). "Tulsa police shooting investigated by Justice Department". CNN. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  13. ^ Stack, Liam (2019-03-01). "Tulsa Police Officer Who Killed Unarmed Black Man Won't Face Civil Rights Charges". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  14. ^ "Shooting of mentally ill man raises policing questions". AP News. 2017-06-17. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  15. ^ a b staff, Gustavo Olguin, KTUL (2020-06-12). "Protesters, law makers call for police reforms in Tulsa". KTUL. Retrieved 2020-07-13.((cite web)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ WRAL (2020-06-16). "Tulsa's black residents grapple with the city's racist history and police brutality ahead of Trump's rally". WRAL.com. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  17. ^ Analysis By Maeve Reston (13 June 2020). "Trump makes a rare retreat by rescheduling Juneteenth rally". CNN. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  18. ^ "Column: Trump's Tulsa rally is shaping up to be a coronavirus petri dish". Los Angeles Times. 2020-06-19. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  19. ^ Kelley, Alexandra (2020-06-19). "Trump's Tulsa rally raises concerns it will inflame racial tensions, become a coronavirus 'super-spreader' event". The Hill. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  20. ^ staff, Kimberly Jackson, KTUL (2021-05-31). "Oklahoma Black Caucus shows support for reparations and development". KTUL. Retrieved 2021-06-19.((cite web)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ "Rep. Regina Goodwin's 'Caregiver Support Act' goes to the governor's desk". capitolbeatok.worldsecuresystems.com. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  22. ^ "Oklahoma Has a New Law Banning the Shackling of Pregnant Women. Will It Make a Difference?". Rewire.News. 18 July 2018. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  23. ^ Jones, Fred (2 May 2019). "Clarifying Voting Rights For Felons, HB 2253, Was Signed Into Law | The Oklahoma Eagle". Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  24. ^ "Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women names state Rep. Regina Goodwin recipient of 2019 Guardian Award | The City Sentinel". 24 May 2019. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  25. ^ Jones, Fred (23 March 2018). "State Representative Regina Goodwin Honored As AARP 'Capitol Caregiver' | The Oklahoma Eagle". Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  26. ^ "Women's Coalition Announce SHERO and Courage Award Winners". Oklahoma Women's Coalition. 2019-05-10. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
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