Yolly Roberson is a Miami, Florida

Miami, Florida

Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...

 attorney and Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

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 politician who serves as the representative for District 104 of the Florida House of Representatives

Florida House of Representatives

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. She was first elected to the Florida House in 2002 and then reelected successively to three more terms. She served as Democratic Whip from 2004 to 2006.

Representative Roberson was born in Mirebalais

Mirebalais

Mirebalais is a town in Centre Department, Haïti, approximately 60 km northeast of Port-au-Prince on National Road 3. The city was established in 1703....

, Haiti

Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

 on October 26, 1955. She earned her Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Science

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 in Nursing at the University of Massachusetts

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 in Boston

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 in 1983 and her Juris Doctorate at the New England School of Law

New England School of Law

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 in 1988. She has worked as a public defender in Boston

Boston

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 and as a senior assistant attorney general in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, on the Atlantic coast. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the South Florida metropolitan area, which was home to 5,564,635 people at the 2010...

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External links

• Representative Yolly Roberson official Florida House of Representatives site
• Yolly Roberson for U.S. Congress official campaign site