Hernandez Alma

American politician noted as the youngest woman elected to the Arizona House of Representatives. Serving as a Democratic member of the Arizona House of Representatives for the 3rd district, Hernandez was elected in 2018 to succeed Macario Saldate, who was term-limited. Her first achievement as an elected official was the approval with bipartisan support of an agreement to initiate mandatory training in crisis intervention and de-escalation for school resource officers in July 2019. On 6 July 2021 a bill sponsored by Hernandez requiring Holocaust education in public schools in Arizona was passed by the State Legislature. This made Arizona the 16th state of the United States to make Holocaust education mandatory. Hernandez was raised in a non-religious home and converted to Judaism in 2015; she became interested in learning about Judaism during her teenage years after discovering that her maternal grandfather was Jewish. Her brother, Daniel Hernández Jr., also serves as a State Representative. After being elected to the Arizona House of Representatives, she was featured, along with seven other women, in advertisement campaign for the plus-size clothing brand ELOQUII. In April 2021, Hernandez contracted a breakthrough case of COVID-19. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less