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| succeeded=[[Richard Burford]]
| succeeded=[[Richard Burford]]
| birth_date=May 16, 1935
| birth_date=May 16, 1935
|birth_place=Coushatta, Red River Parish, [[Louisiana]]
| birth_place=Coushatta, Red River Parish, [[Louisiana]]
| death_date=March 16, 2023 (aged 87)
| death_date=March 16, 2023 (aged 87)
| death_place=
| death_place=[[Shreveport]], Louisiana
| resting_place=
| resting_place=
| religion=
| religion=
In 1995, Bruce unseated the short-term [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Tommy Armstrong]] of Shreveport, who had represented District 4. Running in District 7 to succeed the retiring [[Johnny McFerren]], Bruce polled 7,027 votes (53 percent) to Armstrong's 6,235 (47 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 18, 1995.</ref> Bruce was unopposed in 1999 and 2003, but in 2007, she was term-limited and was succeeded by a Republican, [[Richard Burford]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/static/#!/2007-11-17/resultsRace/Legislative|title=Election Returns|date=November 17, 2007|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=February 25, 2018}}</ref> who relinquished the seat in 2016 after a failed bid for the state Senate against Democrat [[John Milkovich]].
In 1995, Bruce unseated the short-term [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Tommy Armstrong]] of Shreveport, who had represented District 4. Running in District 7 to succeed the retiring [[Johnny McFerren]], Bruce polled 7,027 votes (53 percent) to Armstrong's 6,235 (47 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 18, 1995.</ref> Bruce was unopposed in 1999 and 2003, but in 2007, she was term-limited and was succeeded by a Republican, [[Richard Burford]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/static/#!/2007-11-17/resultsRace/Legislative|title=Election Returns|date=November 17, 2007|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=February 25, 2018}}</ref> who relinquished the seat in 2016 after a failed bid for the state Senate against Democrat [[John Milkovich]].
A former resident of Mansfield, Louisiana, Bruce an her husband, Andrew Morris Bruce, retired in [[Shreveport]]. She died at the age of eighty-seven.
A former resident of Mansfield, Louisiana, Bruce and her husband, Andrew Morris Bruce, retired in [[Shreveport]]. She died at the age of eighty-seven.
==References==
==References==