HAWKINS, UNITED STATES SENATOR PAULA, 82, of Winter Park, Florida passed away Friday, December 4, 2009. Senator Hawkins was born January 24, 1927, in Sa PAULA HAWKINS Obituary - FL ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Paula Hawkins, 82, who in 1980 became the first woman elected to a full Senate term without a family political connection, died today. Hawkins had been in poor health recently ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Paula Hawkins, Florida’s first and only female U.S. senator, forged her own path and, in doing so, helped pave the way for women in leadership.

Paula Hawkins greets Florida Gov. Charlie Crist at an event in Orlando in October. As a U.S. senator in the 1980s, Hawkins helped pass the Missing Children Act and revealed at a Congressional ...

Paula Hawkins, the "housewife from Maitland" who blazed a trail for women in politics in Florida and throughout the South, died Friday in Orlando after complications from a recent fall, according ...

Moody is just the second woman to represent Florida in the U.S. Senate, and the first in nearly 40 years; Republican Paula Hawkins served in the chamber from 1981 to 1987.

Moody, Florida’s Attorney General, will be the second woman to represent Florida in the Senate, following fellow Republican Paula Hawkins who served from 1981-1987.