Mauree Turner

Mauree Turner
Turner smiling
Turner in 2020
Member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives
from the 88th district
Assumed office
January 2021
Preceded byJason Dunnington
Personal details
Born
Mauree Nivek Rajah Salima Turner

1992 or 1993 (age 30–31)[1]
Ardmore, Oklahoma, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Websitewww.maureeturner.com Edit this at Wikidata

Mauree Nivek Rajah Salima Turner (born 1992 or 1993) is an American politician and community organizer. A member of the Democratic Party, they have served as a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives since 2021. Turner is the first publicly non-binary U.S. state lawmaker and the first Muslim member of the Oklahoma Legislature.

Raised in Ardmore, Oklahoma, in an interfaith Muslim and Baptist household, Turner graduated from Ardmore High School and Oklahoma State University. They previously served as a board member of the Council on American–Islamic Relations and led criminal justice reform initiatives with the American Civil Liberties Union.

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