Vivian Flowers | |
Office: | Mayor-elect of Pine Bluff |
Term Start: | TBD |
Succeeding: | Shirley Washington |
State House1: | Arkansas |
District1: | 65th |
Term Start1: | January, 2014 |
Predecessor1: | Delia Haak |
Party: | Democratic |
Education: | University of Arkansas at Little Rock (BA, MA) |
Vivian Flowers is an American politician who is the mayor-elect of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She serves in the Arkansas House of Representatives and is a Democrat. She is a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.[1] She lives in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.[1]
She made a statement for the 50th anniversary of the Arkansas ACLU applauding its work and noting "Our rights are under attack."[2]
She and another politician who is African American were involved in an incident where police were called and a complaint filed in 2020. She has called for various police reforms after the incident.[3] She has represented Districts 17 and 65 in the Arkansas House since 2015.[4]
Flowers did not run for re-election to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2024, opting instead to run for mayor of Pine Bluff, Arkansas.[5] Flowers defeated incumbent mayor Shirley Washington in the Democratic primary runoff in April 2024,[6] and defeated Libertarian John Fenley in the general election on November 5, 2024.[7]