+ − Contact Information
Phone: (217) 782-8250
Fax: (217) 782-2115
Office Address:
Senator 46th District
309 M Capitol Building
Springfield, IL 62706
+ − Biography
Former staff member, National Farm Worker Ministry; Former community organizer and program manager, Peoria Friendship House; Former executive director, Peoria Area Labor Management Council; Former president, Labor Management Cooperative Health Programs Inc.; Peoria County Board member, 1982-88; Peoria City Council member, 1989-97 (mayor pro tem, 1993-94); Former Member of the NCSL Natural Resources and Infrastructure Committee; member of NCSL Task Force on Energy Supply; first elected to Senate in November 2006; appointed to Senate in December 2006 to fill term of retiring Senator George Shadid; married with three daughters, two sons-in-law, one daughter-in-law, three granddaughters and one grandson.
+ − Committees (17)
IL - Agriculture (Senate)
Title:
Vice-chair
IL - Education (Senate)
Title:
Member
IL - Licensed Activities (Senate)
Title:
Chair
IL - Labor (Senate)
Title:
Member
IL - Energy and Public Utilities (Senate)
Title:
Member
IL - Labor- Special Issues (Senate)
Title:
Sub-chair
IL - Appropriations (Senate)
Title:
Member
IL - Health (Senate)
Title:
Member
IL - App- Agriculture, Envir. & Energy (Senate)
Title:
Sub-chair
IL - App-Health (Senate)
Title:
Member
IL - Managed Care Organizations (Senate)
Title:
Member
IL - Public Health (Senate)
Title:
Sub-chair
IL - Redistricting- E Central & SE IL (Senate)
Title:
Sub-vice-chair
IL - Redistricting- Northern Illinois (Senate)
Title:
Sub-vice-chair
IL - Redistricting- West Central IL (Senate)
Title:
Sub-chair
IL - Next Generation Nuclear (Senate)
Title:
Member
IL - App-Health (Senate)
Title:
Member
