Dolores Furtado

Dolores Furtado
Member of the Kansas House of Representatives
from the 19th district
In office
January 12, 2009 – January 10, 2011
Preceded byTim Owens
Succeeded byJim Denning
Personal details
Born (1938-07-04) July 4, 1938 (age 86)
Political partyDemocratic
EducationUniversity of Michigan

Dolores Furtado (July 4, 1938) is a former Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives, who represented the 19th district. She served from 2009 to 2011. Furtado ran for re-election in 2010, but was defeated by Republican Jim Denning.

Prior to her election, Furtado served as County Commissioner from 2003 to 2007 on the Johnson County Board of County Commissioners. Since 2007 she served on the Boards of the TriCounty Smart Start, Kansas Health Solutions, CASA of Johnson and Wyandotte Counties, Johnson County Nursing Center, Public Health Partners and Aging Information.[1] Furtado served as the president of the League of Women Voters (LWV) during the period that when Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach tried to increase restrictions of voting rights. The LWV, the Kansas American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the intervenor Brennan Center for Justice prevailed in the case. Kobach claimed the organizations were "communists."[2]

She received her Bachelor's in Bacteriology from Cornell University and her Master's and PhD in Microbiology from the University of Michigan.

  1. ^ Dolores Furtado for State Representative About Dolores
  2. ^ Peter Hancock, Kansas Republicans hold to hard-right stance; ACLU and League of Women Voters ‘communists,’ Kobach says, Lawrence Journal-World, February 20, 2016; retrieved April 5, 2019.