Years Served
January 2007 - Present
Committee Assignment
Approp-General Service (Chairperson); Education Policy; Public Utilities; Int Relations, Tourism, & Trade.
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.