Shirley Hooper
Shirley M. Hooper-Garcia was an American politician.
Born in Meadow, Texas, Hooper moved to Lovington, New Mexico with her family in 1939 and graduated from Lovington High School in 1953 and then from the New Mexico Real Estate Institute. Then she went to New Mexico Junior College in 1989. Hooper served as secretary of the speaker of the New Mexico House of Representatives and was assistant chief clerk. Hooper was legal secretary to two judges of the New Mexico Court of Appeals. In 1988, she was elected clerk of Lea County, New Mexico.
Hooper served as the Secretary of State of New Mexico from 1979 to 1982 and was a Democrat. Hooper died at her home in Roswell, New Mexico.
