Years Served
January 1985 - Present
Committee Assignment
Health Care Availability Access (Chairperson); Higher Education; Human Services; Accountability & Administrative Rev; Health & Healthcare Disparities; Museums, Arts, & Cultural Enhanceme; Restorative Justice.
Biography
Full-time state legislator; born July 31, 1951, in Inverness, MS; attended Kennedy King Community College; University of Illinois-Chicago Circle; received 1993 "Legislator of the Year" award from Illinois Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Association; married (husband, Daniel Coutee), has one daughter (Makeda).