sentences:  She was Queensland's first female Liberal senator since 1984 and was sworn in a senator on 8 May 2007.Boyce was educated at Monash University from where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, and has a Masters of Business from the Queensland University of Technology.Boyce was the chair of Everhard Industries, a plumbing supplies company founded by her father Alfred Davis, a position from which she resigned from after her elevation to the Senate.