54th District
District Office: 117 East Palatine Road
Suite 106
Palatine, IL
60067
( 847 ) 202 - 6584
Map/Driving Directions
Years Served
January 2011 - Present
Committee Assignment
Appropriations-General Service (Republican Spokesperson); Personnel & Pensions; Insurance; Elem Sec Ed: Adm., Lic. & Charter (Republican Spokesperson); Energy & Environment; Human Services; Special Issues Subcommittee (ESE); Local Retirement System Subcommitte; Miscellaneous Issues Subcommittee; Pension Reform Subcommittee.
Biography
Former small business owner - residential and commercial disaster cleanup and restoration; 5th grade teacher; radio news broadcaster; B.A. in History, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI; first Illinois legislator to entirely opt-out of the state's pension systems; selected to the Council of State Government's BILLD Fellows program in 2011 and the inaugural class of the Edgar Fellows Leadership Program in 2012; married to Bethany and has four children.