Read through the most famous quotes from Frederica Wilson
No more racial profiling!" She also went to the House floor and called for the "murderer" to be arrested saying it was a standard case of racial profiling. House of Representatives
2010 election
When Kendrick Meek retired from Florida's 17th congressional district to run for the United States Senate in 2010 Wilson ran for the open seat and won the Democratic nomination to face her Republican challenger to win Meek's seat. Frederica Wilson (born November 5 1942) is an American politician who has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 2011.
She gained national attention in early 2012 as a result of her high-profile comments on the killing of Trayvon Martin who was a constituent of hers and whose family Frederica Wilson knew personally. Wilson who describes herself as a "voice for the voiceless" is a member of the Democratic Party. Located in South Florida Wilson's congressional district—numbered the 17th during her first two years in Congress and the 24th since 2013—is a majority African-American district that includes the southern parts of Broward County and the eastern parts of Miami-Dade County.