was elected to the Missouri State Senate in 2004 and 2008. She was elected Majority Caucus Chair by fellow senators. She served as the Chair of the Joint Committee of Administrative Rules; was the Vice Chair of the following committees: Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics; Small Business and Insurance; and, served on the following committees: Appropriations, Commerce, Energy and the Environment and the Joint Committee on Capital Improvements. In 2012, Ridgeway was elected to a four-year term as the Eastern District Commissioner of Clay County, Missouri with 63.49% of the vote. In 2016, Ridgeway was re-elected to a four-year term as the Eastern District Commissioner of Clay County, Missouri with 61.7% of the vote. In 2020, Ridgeway announced she would not run for re-election as Commissioner and entered into what she happily referred to as “self-imposed term limits”. She returned to private life in 2021. References Official Manual, State of Missouri, 2005-2006. Jefferson City, Missouri:Secretary of State. External links Archived webpage (2012) at Missouri State Senate (includes photo). Official Manual, State of Missouri, 2011-2012♙, Jefferson City, Missouri:Secretary of State. Official webpage of Clay County, Missouri, Liberty, Missouri. Living people People from Moberly, Missouri People from Smithville, Missouri William Woods University alumni Westminster College (Missouri) alumni University of Missouri–Kansas City alumni American University alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Republican Party members of the Missouri House of Representatives Republican Party Missouri state senators Women state legislators in Missouri County commissioners in Missouri 21st-century American women 1956 births