Terri Collins REPRepublican

Terri Doyle Collins (born May 6, 1958) is an American politician. She is a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from the 8th District, serving since 2010. Collins has sponsored 469 bills as of March 1, 2017. She is a Republican. She was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She met her husband Tom while in college at the University of Alabama and moved to Decatur in 1982 to raise three children. She served as the vice president of marketing and sales of First American Bank for 16 years before election to the legislature in 2010. Tom died in early 2020. Early in her legislative career she proposed a bill that would have prohibited making beer or wine at home. She chairs the Education Policy Committee and serves on the Education Ways and Means Committee.