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Vivian Davis Figures is an American politician who has served in the Alabama State Senate since 1995. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Figures was born in Mobile, Alabama, and graduated from the University of South Alabama with a degree in political science. She was first elected to the Alabama State Senate in 1994 and has been re-elected every four years since then. Figures has served on numerous committees in the Alabama State Senate, including the Education and Youth Affairs Committee, the Finance and Taxation Education Committee, and the Health Committee. She has also served as the chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus. Figures has been a vocal advocate for education reform in Alabama, and has been a strong supporter of the Alabama Accountability Act, which provides tax credits to families who send their children to private schools. She has also been a strong advocate for women's rights, and has sponsored legislation to protect victims of domestic violence. Figures is married to former Mobile County Commissioner Stephen Nodine, and they have two children. She is 63 years old.

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Her husband is Michael Figures (m. 1982-September 13, 1996)

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In April 2019, Davis Figures announced that she would run to be the chair of the Alabama Democratic Party. She dropped out of the race in June.

Davis Figures led the opposition to a bill restricting abortion, with a penalty of 99 years imprisonment for any doctor performing an abortion, and no exceptions for rape or incest. She proposed an amendment outlawing vasectomies, arguing that "there’s no law on the books anywhere in this country that mandate[s] what a man can and can’t do with his body, yet for us there are a number of them."

In November 2012, Alabama Senate Democrats selected Figures to be their floor leader for the next two year term. She became the first woman to lead either the majority or minority party in either house of the Alabama Legislature.

Figures was the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate seat that was held by Republican Jeff Sessions in the 2008 election, after winning the June 2008 Democratic primary with 64% of the vote. Aaron campaigned for Figures and hosted fundraisers in several Alabama cities. On November 4, she was defeated by Sessions with 37% of the vote to Sessions's 63%.

Figures is President/CEO of Figures Legacy Education Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors of the Mobile Area Education Foundation. She is a past at-large member of the Democratic National Committee. She was initiated in the Delta Theta Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in 2002.

Following her husband's death in 1996, Figures ran for his seat in the Alabama Senate. She earned the most votes in the first round of the Democratic Party's primary election, with 47 percent, but missed the majority needed to avoid a runoff election. She defeated James Buskey in the runoff, before defeating Republican Gregory Ramos to win election to the state senate, and was sworn into office in January 1997. In the Alabama Senate, Figures serves as the chairwoman of the Education and Mobile County Local Legislation Committees. In the legislature, Figures may be best known as the perennial sponsor of a bill to ban smoking in indoor, public places statewide in Alabama. In the 2008 general session, the bill passed the Senate, was believed to have sufficient support to pass the House, and Governor Bob Riley had indicated he would sign it. The bill died when legislative filibusters prevented a final vote in the House. Figures was also instrumental in the passage of economic incentives that were critical in the location of a Thyssen-Krupp steel plant near Mobile.

Figures was elected to the Mobile City Council in 1993. In that capacity, she was known as a staunch community advocate. Early in her council career, she led the opposition to a proposed facility for burning petroleum-contaminated oil near downtown Mobile. As a council member, Figures was also the initial proponent of naming Mobile's new minor league baseball park for home run legend Hank Aaron, a Mobile native.

Vivian Davis Figures (born January 24, 1957) is an American politician who is a Democratic member of the Alabama Senate, representing the 33rd District in Mobile County since she was elected on January 28, 1997 to serve the remaining term of her late husband, Senator Michael A. Figures, who was the President pro tempore of the Alabama Senate. She was re-elected without opposition in 1998 and 2002.