Inez Tenenbaum
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Inez Moore Tenenbaum （born March 8, 1951） is an American lawyer and politician who served as South Carolina Superintendent of Education and as Chair of the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission.
In 2016 she joined a law firm.
She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Tenenbaum was born in Hawkinsville, Georgia, obtained a Bachelor of Science in 1972 from the University of Georgia, and a Master's in Education two years later from the same university.
She received a law degree from the University of South Carolina in 1986, where she was an associate editor-in-chief of the South Carolina Law Review.
Originally a public school teacher, Tenenbaum entered state government as an employee of the South Carolina Department of Social Services.
She later served as the director of research for the Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
She practiced with a private law firm, Sinkler & Boyd, P.A. from 1986 to 1992, in the areas of health, environment, and public interest law.
Tenenbaum was the Democratic candidate in the 2004 election for retiring Democrat Fritz Hollings's seat in the U.S. Senate; she lost in to Republican Jim DeMint.
Tenenbaum was elected State Superintendent of Education in November 1998 and re-elected in November 2002.
She focused her administration on six key initiatives to fuel education progress in South Carolina: raising the academic bar and embracing accountability for student academic progress, improving teacher quality,
providing quality early childhood education for all children, supporting strong and...