January 2011 - Present

Adoption & Child Welfare; Education Policy (Chairperson); Housing; Immigration & Human Rights; Mental Health & Addiction; Public Health.

Full-time legislator; IL Congress of Women Legislators, Legislative Accessibility Task Force, Board Member: Women In Need Growing Stronger (WINGS), Children's Advocacy Center of North and Northwest Cook County; member: Schaumburg Business Association, Education Commission of the States, 2022 Public Leaders for Inclusion Council, Illinois Housing Council, League of Women Voters. B.S. in Design from the University of Cincinnati; married, has three young adult children.

Laura M. Murphy