Years Served
January 2007 - Present
Committee Assignment
Appropriations-General Service (Chairperson); Elem Sec Ed: School Curric Policies (Vice-Chairperson); Public Utilities; Veterans' Affairs.
Biography
Full-time state legislator; graduate of Loyola University-Chicago; leadership board, Women In Need Growing Stronger (WINGS), which provides services and housing to victims of domestic violence; 2012 National Association on Mental Illness Legislator of the Year; former Hoffman Estates trustee; Chairman of the Legislative Audit Commission: married, has two children.